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>What Thiel did was to tell people with deep enough pockets to see that it's possible to destroy someone for writing articles that they disagree with

What Theil did was to show that to make sure justice is served when a rich entity is involved, at least an equally rich entity should be involved to make them pay for it.

You make it sound like Theil bribed someone or did something unethical. What he merely did was that he kept paying lawyers so that the lawyers being paid by Gawker could not get away digging for excuses and lengthening the case (usually, lengthening the case is way to make the opposition go bankrupt).
Yeah, I tend to just poke people on video chats if it's something that needs to be addressed.

Sometimes the back and forward comms in Slack or any other project management tool (I use Clubhouse) can be a bit slow, so it's best to just get the person(s) and ask.
Working on the roofs of homes is extremely dangerous. This makes residential solar much more deadly than utility-scale solar, for example.
It just became a major service outage.
Most relevant sentence from article

"Here we limit our comparison to the dominant energy sources—brown coal, coal, oil, gas, biomass and nuclear energy;"
>GitHub is having a minor service outage

It's definitely not minor.
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Status now shows Major Service Outage:

12:32 EDTMajor service outage.

https://status.github.com/
The way you fire someone reveals the kind of leader you are.
I have had a XPS 15 9550 as my main machine for almost a year now, and I can say I'm disatisfied.

It needs a very specific combinations of driver update and bio flashing to work, charging using USB-C sometimes just stops, making it work with a dock took me a good month to figure out, the battery last only a few hours, the webcam is weirdly placed. Worst of all, the sound has suddenly started to act wildly and is now full of cracks.

Given the price I paid for it (2500 € to include a 1 To hard drive and 32 Gb of RAM), I found it less than satisfactory.

But what is infuriating is that some very big problems (like BSOD level) where brought to the attention to the Dell staff on their support forum and the post have been dormant without clear answer from their part for months.

My previously positive perception of the dell brand have been seriously ternished. This is not just bad manufacturing, it's really bad marketting.
I will never suck a nigger cock.

God says...
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What about falls? They don't happen often but it seems clear enough that they are attributable to wind power.
> And honestly, I mostly think they'll probably turn out to be correct - for those specific cases, for their countries. What I think will happen is some new group will be targeted

The current trend globally is for discrimination against LGBTQ to increase...
Taleb would say all this statistics are bullshit, cause they ignore the long tails. I doubt a gas or coal power station can destroy a nation. A nuclear plant has the potential to do so.
>I'd be OK with grabbing code elsewhere, as long as I could guarantee that it would never change.

But there are lots of times when the final result is much more valuable when the code CAN change.

You just have to have trust.

1. Trust that the folks who can change the code aren't malicious.

2. Trust that the code you think you're running is really the code you're running.

Neither of those things are really too much of a stretch. And the services and capabilities they allow are very, very nice.

Hell, statistically speaking... we're both typing these comments in Google Chrome, a browser that auto-updates itself all the time.

but 1. we trust that Google won't suddenly become malicious and 2. we trust the mechanisms in place (https, cert pinning) to ensure the update is really the update Google sent.

In fact, this whole article actually boils down to a breakdown of trust: Turns out random extension devs aren't as trustworthy as we might like. They make mistakes and there's no safety net.
The sintering process is the hard part of printing metal and where a lot of Desktop Metal's core technology is. They basically use traditional heating combined with microwave heating controlled via infrared temperature sensors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pk7Mq7ESwI
> It still definitely counts as an edge case though, in the sense that if the building were torn down or foreclosed I don't think its block would still warrant its own code

For example, the World Trade Center's zip code was retired after the 9/11 attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10048_(ZIP_code)
It appears that these figures take into account _just_ energy production. They don't seem include the mining, enriching, construction of reactors, disposal of waste, decommissioning reactors, etc. When mining low-grade ore (which isn't uncommon, and is becoming more command as high-grade ore becomes more scarce), nuclear plants are as inefficient as coal-fired plants [1]. Nuclear advocates tend to ignore the full system, and focus on where nuclear shines: power production. The setup to get to that point is extremely costly.

[1] https://www.stormsmith.nl/i05.html
Solar doesn't have to be reliable; it just has to charge a battery (or some other means of energy storage) which is reliable.

Also worth mentioning (at the risk of being very pedantic) that solar is technically nuclear power.
Funny humans care about their children.

Nothing is scarier than birth-defects. Radiation causes very visible birth defects.

Hence people are very, very scared of radiation. And rightly so.

A windpark will not cause disfigured babies. Hence wind is better.

And: Nuclear is the most expensive energy source, by FAR. safety, waste, clean-up - super, super expensive. dismantle a wind park and it is gone, poof. dismantle a reactor and now you have a new problem.

Also very hard to weaponize wind or solar. Blow up a wind park and well, the wind park is gone. Steal a rotor and now you have a rotor.

etc etc etc.

What is sooo hard to understand about this?
Sure, but if you restrict yourself to lowest-common-denominator features so you can migrate between Spanner and CosmosDB then you are paying for features you aren't using and are at a competitive disadvantage to those that can leverage them.
The manufacture of solar panels is not as safe or as environmentally friendly as you might hope, just like how buying a new Prius to replace your car is probably a net loss for the environment unless your existing one is already near the end of its useful life.
It's also possible that if those costs were correctly tallied, then nuclear power would not be economically viable (assuming it even is without them).
We've been getting episodes from season 5 every Tuesday - I assume you only have up to season 4 there.
According to the documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" and part 1 of the article. MS was a programming language shop. Basically they wanted to get IBM an OS so it would be successful and they'd sell more software.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/06/ibm-pc-history-par...

IBM didn't do their homework and went to microsoft for programming languages and and Operating System. Microsoft sent IBM to Gary Kildall's "Digital Research" company (they made CPM os). It was based in his house, he was away, his wife and lawyers wouldn't sign the NDA... They left empty handed, and Microsoft said they'd get them an OS.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
I'd rather get Thinkpad Carbon X1 5th gen or Thinkpad T470.
Students who cheat on a simple task are more likely to prefer public sector jobs
Half the fun of using giphy through Slack was the risk of getting an awkwardly bad gif. Once there was a preview, folks in my Slacks stopped using it.

I use the giphy website a couple times a week, but the search is terrible. It's my go-to choice purely because it's convenient, but there's no way I would ever pay for the service. If other users feel the way I do, sponsored gifs may be their only hope.
As a Canadian, this article sums up pretty well the internet situation in most of the country, even in "urban" areas. Due to the "Canada is different" mentality here, foreign, more efficient companies are forbidden from making business here, leaving the market to a few local operators that have no incentive to make the service any better. This leads to the country being years later in terms of broadband technology compared to other western countries. There is no excuse for that. Canadian tech is always pretty much a crippled version of the same product from the United States at a higher price. Even in hardware, the same MacBook is 1,799.00 $ in the US but 2,399.00 $ in Canada.

Saguache County is in the same situation thanks to it's remote location, but I bet you it'll get fixed far sooner than Canada's nonsense situation in term of internet access. I hope the ambitious infrastructure plan the US has adopted will somewhat cover the installation of better rural internet access.
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Funny you should say that - when I first started doing this I tried to get some of my friends to join me. They all fell apart from the lack of structure and went back to their old jobs. And that's not to say it was a moral failing on their part - I don't think everyone is wired to do this sort of thing, maybe even most people.

I'm also not saying that I wasted all of my time or that I did nothing of value - just that it has taken real effort to figure out what I value. I think the existential crises I've come through have been really important for my growth, and I wouldn't have had to think about it had I not had to direct my time myself.
You serious?
And building an hydroelectric/atomic/coal plant is not dangerous?

It's not a too dangerous place, when the people who set these up are professionals who are following a security guideline.
I see lots of people working on their roof, so, at least for me, this is a nonsense argument to discredit solar energy.
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The import taxes are insane and, yes, I would agree that they are so high that they could generate the blue screen of death for some... but never heard of taxes causing hardware problems lol

A quick scan through the comments and you can see that Americans aren't that happy with Dell's hardware neither... and the hinge problem, tons of reports at Dell's USA community forum. So if I were you, would start getting careful with the hinge... or, like customer support from Dell suggested me one time: not open and close the notebook that much.
Strictly speaking, a "plethora" should be an excessive amount of something.

It still might work in this context though, if you think the company has raised too much capital...
until it doesn't and it does.

i'm sure that its safe to dump small amounts of radioactive material into the oceans, but if you start to build more reactors and dispose of all the waste into the ocean, the dilution will soon cease to be enough to offset a global ... disaster.
I chunk all work down to 2 hours max. Keep chopping it up until I can get it small enough.

Then I completely focus for the period of time needed, no other distractions, 15 to 120 minutes. It's similar to the Pomodoro method, except with a max of 2 hours. If I feel the urge to do something else, I jot it down to be done in the break.

I then force myself to take a mandatory break after the estimated time is over.

If I expect a distraction during the needed time, like a meeting or lunch, I do something else that fits the time slot.

If I'm uncertain how long a task takes, I put aside 1-2 hours to hack a disposable prototype or do research.
Why? Elm has generics.
absolutely it should. Media generally has been able to do thing like drive Princess Diana to her death by hounding with paparazzi without consequences. It's good to put fear of law into the more salacious segments of the media.
Thoughts on the cause?
I have Fridays off to spend with my kids too. It's really nice. I've always found it quite difficult to switch off, but after three days with the kids I go back to work refreshed and with a fresh sense of perspective.

It's lovely to have extra time to spend with them while they are small. I always look forward to our Friday adventures. I appreciate the feeling of space it gives my week.

While I was on mat leave I started working on my little side project while they napped just to keep my skills fresh and to exercise the part of my brain. I've kept doing that and really enjoy having the time to inch my little website along. There's not a massive amount of time in my life that's not being a parent or at work, so it's been really nice to have something where I can call the shots and just do something for myself.

My boss was very accommodating when I wanted to switch to a four day week. We had another older guy in the team who was working half time and spending the other half spin charity work. There were also some other parents in the department who did non-standard hours. I don't know if it would have occurred to me if there weren't already other people doing it.
The article doesn't mention Square Cash at all – I'm curious to know how it compares in terms of success/market share.

Personally I greatly prefer Cash. It's an excellently designed app – simple, straight-to-the-point, no superfluous features. I don't really understand why people prefer Venmo.
There is one huge problem with nuclear energy. Humanity has time and time again proven they can not handle that kind of responsibility.
I think I can safely say that the parts won't be flat to 1000 of an inch (.03mm) - or whatever your tolerance is. However this is something that any existing process can achieve with arbitrary shapes either.

I think this process replaces sand casting, a process that also has many slight deformations. You just make the parts a little big and then machine the important sides to the exact side you need. The downside of sand casting is it often leaves a little bit of sand embedded in the metal which will destroy your tools. If the internal metal quality is as good as sand casting, the ease of doing arbitrary shapes and lack of sand in the metal make it a winner. That you have to have a lathe/milling machine to finish the part is not a change.

If the above is right (it seems reasonable, but I don't know if it is), then beams and and flat stock will continue to be made with existing process. However odd shaped things like an engine blocks it could be a winner.
I posted the announcement via Phoronix here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14892967

But this one is probably better as it's coming from Khronos directly.
Yes, that's what I'm afraid of. Building solar cells might not be as environment friendly as I'd like, but hey, we can optimize these processes later on.
Building a nuclear plant would also be very unfriendly when it comes to ecology.
The way HTTP works is there is a request and response. If LinkedIn does not want to provide a response, they don't have to. If they don't want to accept requests, then maybe the World Wide Web isn't for them.
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Yeah, but at <$500k, they can rent it out for $60/hour and recoup expenses in a year. Even if we bump it up to $100/hour to cover administrative costs, that's cheap enough to be accessible for a lot of average citizens to use.

I can think of a few things where printing 50 of them in an hour would be adequate to recoup a $100 equipment rental.
There's an even simpler (if imperfect) solution:

Remind the driver to check the back seat if they opened one of the back doors before they got in the front seat.

Heck, most cars have seatbelt+weight sensors. Just give a warning if you detect anyone under 100 lbs in the back.
Two words: Hanford Site
Whatever the initial price difference there is will be lost in power consumption over the course of the first year of heavy use or 2 years of moderate use.

And after the price parity, you're just stuck with a worse card.
I think it started as minor as I was receiving a unicorn once per 10 pages. It's currently happening on almost all.

Of course, I'm trying to dig into a WebKit issue and need the issues to load!
I've had a few CI jobs fail when attempting to pull, but I've also had some succeed. Seems that it isn't an all-or-nothing outage.
You have to look at the whole market. When you buy a new car the old one gets resold to someone else, which causes yet another even older car to be resold and so on through the market until the oldest, broken-est car actually exits the market (assuming the total market size is static, if it's growing then you need to compare the Prius against the other new cars that would enter the market) so as long as you're replacing existing usage then you're probably doing good.
ABC has an article about the killer cows (which cites data from the CDC, though I've yet to find the data): http://abcnews.go.com/Health/shark-versus-cow-deadlier/story...

British cows are apparently similarly deadly: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cows-official...
That's a great suggestion for a blog post, we have something similar that describes how we became a (partially) remote team: https://blog.clubhouse.io/how-clubhouse-became-remote-friend...

We have someone working in Australia, so it mentions how we were able to make that work, and how we had to start being mindful of timezones.

It discusses some of the challenges that we used to face and how we overcame it — including audio/video difficulties (which we still haven't fully perfected) We're also going to be writing something about working remotely next week.

I do like the virtual coffee/tea idea, I'll probably pitch it to the squad and see what they think.
Exactly - at which point I love to mention Thorcon Power and the amount of obstacles that they faced in the US only to have to go abroad and start building their absolutely incredible design and test reactor in Indonesia. Sad.
I also find myself cancelling Slack giphys because the results are so terrible, resulting in a constant decrease in usage over time.
Pages Builds Failure Rate spiked to over 2000%. I don't know how that's possible, but it seems pretty bad.
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Do you want it to be sold to your insurance company? We see that you're a regular coffee drinker which is correlated with increased risk of heart problems -- here's a rate increase.
As far as I can tell, he's borrowing the mathematics sentiment, where "the proof is trivial" doesn't necessarily mean you'll find it easy - it just means that the interesting aspects of the problem have been dealt with and what's left is a simpler or more general case.

That said... I've never encountered "novel IP" as the actual standard for 'trivial' in mathematics or CS. It would take a very strong source to convince me that's a formal or most-common-use meaning. (The Wiki page on 'trivial (mathematics)' certainly doesn't offer that meaning.)
> you just violated trademark/registered design laws

If it has those. The data on LI (other people's employment histories) is not its own IP.
You're exhausting if only because you try to place the comments of others into a linguistic box of your own creation, not theirs.

There are undoubtedly many things Uber could do that would be "unquestionably symbolic." Hiring someone else with a history of sexual harassment would be unquestionably symbolic. Nowhere did anyone say that hiring a female CEO is the only unquestionably symbolic act they could do. But it is one of them, and in that hypothetical instance, the symbolism would be positive.

And no, it isn't the only unquestionably positive act they could do.
Sure, I'm not implying long distance running is unhealthy. I believe it is healthy, but there is some evidence some long distance running forms are unhealthy.

Thus, I wonder how that running humans hypothetically evolved with differs from what we practice as sport these days. Perhaps their pace was lower and broken into intervals.
I will try to explain it as best as I can.

Radioactive material decays as particles are emitted. If it has a long half-life, that pretty much means that the energy is being released rather slowly. In other words, just don't go poking at it and you'll be fine.

On the othe hand, stuff with a short half-life means that atoms are decaying rapidly. Particles are being knocked off with great rapidity. That stuff is much more dangerous, in the now. It is transferring energy, in a harmful form, quickly.

A long half-life means don't go poking at it for a while. A short half-life means you probably should consider containing it really well. We store both safely because we know people like to poke stuff, and it is harmful. It's just that the scary long half-lives only tell part of the story and many people seem to think those are the more problematic.

Disclaimer, I'm a mathematician, not a physicist. However, I've taken a whole lot of physics courses. Someone can probably explain this better than I.
You still need a program to perform the mixing. The intended source of entropy isn't really the issue. The integrity of the program which produces and displays these numbers is.
Visa is working to prevent people from using cash in stores [0]. Currently, they are merely giving merchants an incentive to change, but in the future they may use their immense lobbying power to get preferential legislation enacted.

Once cash is gone:

1. your purchases will be available to any company willing to pay for it, and

2. Visa will get a de facto "tax" on all transactions (through 1-2% merchant fees)

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/visa-takes-war-on-cash-to-resta...
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What is the nr. 1 thing you would change in GitLab to improve the UI?
If course it is, but the bullshit propaganda, scare-tactics, and political policies like that of the Green party in the UK have led the world to shun one of our best chances.
I'm doing a fairly complex one, Serverboards[1]. It is a monitoring, administration and automation framework. And so far without Elixir it would have taken me four times more to develop the backend.

Anyway it does not use Phoenix (the most beloved web framework), but a simple Web server based on Cowboy and JSON-RPC via websockets, so it may not be a canonical example.

[1]. https://github.com/serverboards/serverboards/
Any reason not to set default skepticism to high for Loz Blain and NewAtlas?

>...it's going to compete with traditional mass manufacturing

>...the hype is real

The team, tech, results, deals already signed, all seem really impressive in their own right. No hyperbole needed to get a more views.

It's not my area, if someone tells me this really has a shot at competing with mass manufacturing in the next 5 years I retract everything.
It has leveled up to a major outage!
Definitely Bitcoin-related.
We are in the superlative bubble.
That is an excellent comment. The downvotes are already coming in, your comment was grayed out (downvoted) by the time I saw it. No substantive responses yet, just anonymous click revenge. :(
> You have to be very careful about these studies

Yes you do. The WHO has been following the Chernobyl consequences, and come out with a new report about every decade. Each report dramatically lowers the estimate of deaths and other health consequences.

As a matter of fact, the largest health effects now are psychosocial effects. That is, fear of and (over-)reaction to the radiation effects is causing more actual harm than the radiation itself. So potentially one of the easiest ways to mitigate the harmful effects of nuclear accidents (best of course: let's not have any!) is to (over-)react less.

Of course not reacting at all would also be wrong, but it looks like the balance today is out of whack.
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