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It's not everything but stuff like smart phones, jeans, and shoes would be much more expensive if they were manufactured in the US. For example sneakers already have high tariffs (high end shoes being taxed an extra about 12% and most other mass market shoes being taxed at around 35-48% from the data I found) but about 98% of shoes in the US are foreign made because even with the tariffs and shipping costs the US can't compete. The total labor cost per hour is often about 10x what it is in countries like Bangladesh so it seems pretty clear that especially for things where labor is a large part of the cost they are going to be much cheaper if manufactured outside the US.
> Too many people have a bad habit of including “go” in their repository name, presumably to not confuse people with non-go version of the code.

Note that this is actually a perfectly reasonable thing to do. If I had two clients for some particular API, one written for Node and one for Go, it absolutely makes sense to name them "node-whatever.git" and "go-whatever.git".

Part of what makes naming things hard is needing to come up with a more "creative" name for every little module, especially once you throw in the constraint that apparently eight characters is too long and four characters is just right.
>Screwing insurance companies means increased costs for everyone.

They already increased prices. And they've made an entire clusterfuck in terms of billing codes, bureaucracy, and negotiations before ACA anyway.

Insurance company does poorly while my health improves? My rates go up.

Insurance company does well? My rates stay steady.

I had a car insurance agent tell me this exact reason today. Their underwriters simply increased the price because the company isn't doing well.

Insurance prices can't always go up. Something is going to break. And we're all going to pay a shitload of money and have a bunch of fallout either way.
Are you actually interested in more responsibilities? Not everyone is. Have you proactively asked for it or have gone above and beyond to contribute outside of your normal day-to-day activities? Or do you tend to wait for opportunities to come to you?

Senior-level contributors are expected to show initiative on a continuous basis. As for moving into lead or manager roles, you need to show a lot of those qualities before even being considered for them. If you haven't demonstrated that you already have the qualities necessary for the new level, nobody is going to take a chance that you will suddenly develop them later. Proactively seeking those opportunities is part of the game.
It's funny you mention that. I grew up with the Windows API first and then moved to Tcl/To, and then Swing. I remember wishing I could just manually position things instead of packing into horizontal and vertical boxes. Maybe it is Stockholm syndrome with the Windows API for me.
I guess I'm looking at it like this:

1. Someone physically breaks into factory, steals a list of customers for the purpose of (selling to competitors/personal interest)

2. Someone drives around the country and records locations of $company infrastructure, in an industry where optimal placement provides a major competitive advantage, for the purpose of (selling to competitors/personal interest)

In both cases, the person now has information that the target would rather keep private, and in both I would assume that their plans for the data would be irrelevant to the legality of gathering that data. (I'd assume case 1 would be illegal either way, and 2 legal either way) So if Weev's actions are akin to breaking into/hacking a system, then case 1 would apply - but if it was closer to looking at publicly exposed information, then the situation would be like case 2. But either way, I don't think his reasons for taking the actions (or after the fact plans on what to do with the data) would affect the legality of what he did.

Of course, IANAL and US computer law seems to be completely screwed up so maybe it would matter. I just don't see how.
For me it's the incessant marketing of extremely generic entertainment experiences, amidst a backdrop of sexual exploitation. And half of the marketing reeks of bait and switch.

Plus the fact that it works on a plurality of tourists coming through makes it sad.

I leave Vegas with less faith in humanity than I had when I came. It's been a few years though.

Hunter S. Thompson had it right: try to cram as many drugs into your body as possible, seek out the ghosts of America's dead dreams and you may come out with some semblance of spirit intact.
> Just to be clear, this is LITERALLY equating business success with ethical/legal conduct.

No, it's equating restitution and intent with lenient sentencing.

Even if I grant that he intended to defraud people initially (which doesn't appear to be the case), that's still analogous to if someone stole your car, but later had a change of conscience, returned it, and had also fixed your dents and given it a new paint job to make amends. Are they guilty of theft? Yes. Should they be punished? Probably. Should they get the same punishment as someone who stole your car and crashed it, or stole it and sold it? I don't think so. That's leniency. You may have a different opinion.
This one tripped me up too.
I'm guessing he meant `a |= b`.
I like the article in The Atlantic about this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/dna-roma...

As it says, it's mostly people talking past each other.

Taleb is unnecessarily un-collegial though.
So if you had mirror arrays pointing at the bottom of the super chimney, the sun would be the energy source, so it could work?
This was so beautiful! So glad to see it on Hacker News. I find myself in the resentment camp too often, and I'm reminded that little can be accomplished by pushing others down. We're all stronger when we form a web of support. Greater heights can be reached.
Probably nearly impossible. Fluid dynamics simulations are horrendously time consuming even at low resolution and small scale. This is bound to be more of an engineering stunt than a scientific endeavor.
I call it "the Times Square" effect. Every major city has one. Hollywood Boulevard in LA. Fisherman's Wharf in SF. The eponymous Times Square in NY. Etc. I don't know if the Vegas Strip deserves the title for "absolute worse", but it is certainly conceivable.
This is most assuredly not what it costs for a quality product, but it is what they can charge for a quality product given no competitors in that tier. Plus, signaling, etc.
Didn't think of it this way. So true.
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Exactly, Google, FB, etc. They require you login to their website. They also now know you use web app X, the date/time, how often you use said website, etc.

For some applications, that privacy loss may not be a big deal. Except if you combine this information with the other 500 web apps the user also uses through 'Sign in with...' links, plus all the other information they gather, they suddenly get to know you really, really well.
It's a tad unrealistic to expect positive interactions at all times. There is a whole social behavior called 'negging'.

But it's always a good idea to cut off negativity where you have control.
Unfortunately no concrete concern was voiced that could be addressed other than vague comparison to hoax websites.
I'm a pretty big fan of firearms. I disagree. If you had knowledge before hand, of the crime, and a reasonable expectation, you are culpable, to some percentage.

The law usually agrees with me, if that helps.
Seems like a sorta horrible thing to say imo, 6 years is a long time to spend in prison.
He just said in a podcast with h3h3 that it would something like 6 months.
Re:" Dense air at the surface can store more heat than thin air near space can.)"

So, in theory, if we made the Earth's atmosphere less dense, we'd cool the planet. Correct? Any idea how much less dense?
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One of the best ways to heal this aspect of yourself is to actually expand the feelings of resentment in a safe therapeutic setting (possibly with a psychedelic or equivalent, i.e. Breathwork) and to get to the root of where your sense of survival was threatened by another's success.

This is quite common in the current us school system where children are routinely pitted against one another for the love of a proxy parent, aka teacher.
Can webcams and microphones be turned on without turning on the hardware indicator lights by someone who doesn't have physical access to the device in question?
I had no problems with my old samsung flip phone and it's t9. I could even touch type on it without looking. But AT&T said it's radio frequencies were no longer supported.

The problem with cheap feature phones for me right now is that I can't find any supported by most US networks that don't suck. The new ones suck way more than the old ones, noticeable delays when pressing keys, etc.
I've been pulling my hair out and losing sleep over a specific problem I need to solve for a client. This tool, along with the linked spaCy lib have not only reduced the complexity of the task to be manageable, have also drastically reduced the projected completion time. In other words, Holy shit thank you OP.
The falling human is free to move with the wind. No shear forces. Unlike a tower attached to the ground.
See, I've had the opposite experience. I can't remember anything from the vast majority of lectures - I either make notes, which means I'm missing material while I'm writing, or I don't take notes, and don't remember much of anything at all. Lectures are nothing but a huge waste of my time.

Now, recorded lectures, on the other hand, are superior. Combined with the ability to directly contact the lecturer, it would be an infinitely more successful method of learning for me.

Perhaps the way forward is the way my medical school does it - 3 different pathways: lecture-based, problem-based, and self-study. Let each student choose the path best for them.
Waterseer is a different impossible idea: They ignore that they need to remove a lot of heat to transform water vapor into liquid vapor. And that there is not so much water in the air anyway. [Clouds are huge.]

SuperTallChemney: They ignore that in equilibrium the column of air is has different pressures and temperatures that are related by the adiabatic process laws.

Anyway, it's interesting that both project try to be people friendly and offer a lot of water for the desert. In the SuperTallChimney it's not very clear if the plan is to put it in the middle of a dessert [1] or nearby a wet place that usually has no so big temperature variations.

[1] As another user commented, desserts are very hot during the day and very cold at night. What is the plan to keep the chimney working at night?
Here's my analysis from maybe wrong principles. If you have slightly more dense air beneath slightly less dense air, the air will experience a net force upwards. If this net force is stronger than gravity, then the air will experience upwards acceleration. This will continue as long as there is a difference strong enough. At the top of the tube, there is no more force since the density will be the same since the air will spread out after exiting. (If it's not already at the same density after going through the tube).

Looking at it this way this seems sound to me, am I wrong?
> Users are always identified to you by email address, phone number or both...

An account system using phone numbers may have a negative impact to privacy. For some people a phone number is attached to a real name and address. Also it is not uncommon for a person to change their phone number from time to time.
I was with you until you proposed your own fifth point as if THAT is the true one. I can posit questions about your point about being driven too.

More or less than most athletes eyeing an Olympic gold?
I am not qualified to evaluate the actual possibility of this device, and there are many points that don't seem plausible to me.

However, the author is not arguing free energy. That would be like arguing wind turbines are "free energy". It's very clearly a solar powered device, with solar energy providing the heat that drives the air movement.
Oh, I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant the old school, obsolete, 19th century-type "golden age of whaling* ships, certainly not contemporary whaling.

In my mind I (rightly or not?) consider that in a different category altogether.
This is often diagnosed as narcicism. Two people sharing one persons over inflated ego.
Another piece of information that seems very shady from the US is they tried to say he was breaking felony gun laws going to the shooting ranges on the strip and using that as a reason to stop his bail

https://twitter.com/ChristyNews3LV/status/893603855266492416
He says it's his opinion which is different from drawing conclusions from a study
We do not really need as much protein as the supplements industry would have us believe.

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/how-much-protein-is-e...
Why do you favor harsher sentencing for him?

As a hedge fund manager, losing money is not illegal. The only illegal thing he did was lie about it so that he could get them their money back.

It would've been perfectly legal for him to lose all his clients money in the hedge fund, make them aware of this fact, and reap the profits from his pharma business without dishing it out to his hedge fund clients.

As far as I can tell, Shkreli turned a technically legal "I fucked up and lost your money scenario" into a technically illegal I fucked up, lost your money, but got it back to you scenario.

If I was part of Shkreli's hedge fund, I would much prefer to be involved in the latter scenario than the former.

Sure, I could sue Shkreli to recoup some of my hedge fund losses, but this way they didn't need to.
> This is an utter and corrupt racket. I'm writing my congressional representatives and senators. Again.

I agree with what you wrote, but they're going to do fuck-all about it.
Is this "fake news"?
I hope so, although I particularly hope that more game designers build games such that the windows distribution can be directly run by mono on not-windows. That is the way the game is most likely to stay working for an long time and under multiple operating systems. I'm no fan of Microsoft, but compatibility over time is one thing they do better than anyone else and games are the one kind of application where that is particularly important. Plus Mono is excellent. There are other ways game designers could try to make their applications more likely to work for a long time, but in practice they don't do that.

I haven't noticed garbage collector related issues with mono, although I don't play the type of games where that would be most noticible. I have seen a number of games with memory leaks that require a restart after a while, but that is the case under windows as well. I've recently stopped buying Daedalic games because they can't manage to make a simple adventure game with almost no movement work on a system with 4GB memory, but they are by no means the only ones with this problem.

C# on top of C++ might not help that much other than encouraging more game designers to use C#.
That is a very good question. I was wondering about this myself but guessed that the upper atmosphere will still be significantly colder.
Ding ding ding ding [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
This was a study on "Eighty-eight social drinkers." I think I'll wait for a larger study before I follow the advice. Ultimately the article is click bait.
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You said a Ukrainian could do your dev job for a fraction of your fee, I totally understand but could you clarify why the same isn't true for outsourcing marketing?

Thanks!
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It's not only subjectively overpriced, it is overpriced, objectively, as far as the BOM is concerned. What Apple does is to compromise on the most expensive core hardware but make it up on by having (1) a complete and latest set of ancillary hardware (e.g. sensors, connections, etc.) and (2) great software. Ultimately (1) and (2) are things that don't cost that much. They choose to spend the least to get the most bang, and not everybody has the sense to do that. Most other manufacturers go for the complete opposite.
And yes, the Lord of Light was one of the minor plots that I was most interested in. It's a shame they gave it short shrift.
I'm agreeing with you (go figure?).

The point I was making RE: "basis of an arrest" is that if you wait for him to do something stupid, like get arrested by local LEO for drunk and disorderly, that gives you cover to approach him in an interrogation and threaten him with prosecution over the malware... unless he agrees to be a witness/informant. Because he's in with local LEO for something innocuous, there's cover.

In the end, they indict him for the malware, which pretty much ruins him from that perspective. Or, perhaps, they already figured he wasn't worth using and it's not above a US Attorney to go after someone well known in order to further their own career...
This will also function as a hell of a bird vacuum.
I'm pretty sure it does. A ponzi scheme absolutely does harm people through fraud, namely everyone left holding the potato. Sure, it doesn't harm everyone involved, but many people are harmed because of fraud.

In Shkreli's case, he didn't actually harm anyone through fraud, because although he committed fraud, he got them their money back through entirely legal, non-fraudulent means.
Sure, but the goal of the language creator is to create a compiled Ruby-like language. As such, Crystal is by design meant to be compiled. Which is also the case for languages like C, C++, Go, etc.
I does not, the vast majority of the law I disagree with

See I can not support the concept of 3rd party lability. I should only ever be responsible for my actions, not the actions of others, and I have no responsibility or obligation to stop any crime.
Schooling still has a minimum price that needs to be charged to be sustainable. Teachers are not cheap, among other costs. Drugs do not. Drugs are very cheap to produce after the R&D. Financial aid (price discrimination) would work rather well for drugs (but we'd all end up paying more, generally, just like higher education).

As for whether he has implemented financial aid yet, I do not know. Bear in mind that only tens of people buy this drug a year, so implementing financial aid is almost as easy as just having an email account for requests.
I think turc1656 meant to say "he didn't want to defraud the people".
Maybe I am misunderstanding your point, but I believe what you are describing is what is referred to as VR (Virtual Reality), not AR (Augmented Reality).

From what I understand, I believe other commenters in this thread refer to AR as a combination of 'real' reality and computer generated overlays. This is opposed to VR where all of reality is generated. So when we talk about AR headsets we're talking about things akin to Google Glass or Microsoft Hololens if you're familiar with these products. In that sense you are never 'inside' AR (with a headset or phone), it simply augments what you currently experience with extra data. With a true AR headset it is still possible to interact with people in the real world, you can turn on/off the extra data easily (since you are still immersed in the real world) and the computer generated overlays fit in with your real surroundings in a way that is simple and intuitive. Granted such a headset does not yet exist, but I believe that is the end goal.

What you describe as 'stepping inside the Metaverse' with no possibility of interacting with the real world is exactly what VR is all about (full immersion). (As an aside, the Metaverse as described in Snow Crash is exactly this: a Virtual Reality.)

As for the headset vs phone debate, personally I believe that the applications of AR in a non-headset configuration will be limited. There are definitely applications for one-off utilities which don't require constant use (ie. don't require gorilla arm), but having it available at all times and transparently via some sort of headset is where I believe it will really be useful.
I agree. Not to be too cute about it, but I think "multi-paradigm" education, rather than single-paradigm, is definitely the way to go, as we've even learned in programming. We all remember what happened in programming when people suggested we write 100% of programs in an object-oriented style (Java, EJBs, etc.).

These days, we are much more mature about "best tool for the job" -- OO design for state/behavior binding APIs or data structures; FP for concurrency/parallel computation; simple imperative style for mission-critical code that needs to be read/reviewed by many, etc. (among other examples.)

I don't think it's controversial to think that in something as complex as human education, there may be multiple learning tools available to us. We should avail ourselves of each of them.

The recorded lecture, the live lecture, the class Q&A, the take-home assignment, the group study, the deep reading, the thoughtful essay, etc. Put it all on the table. Don't ban any one form out of some trend while declaring, "the lecture is dead!"

I also agree with you that it might also be the case that by allowing some amount of tailoring/personalization per student (a la Khan), we could probably get very good average results, since students can smooth over some of the rough patches where the more dominant teaching style is failing them individually. For example, I personally found it much easier to learn Linear Algebra by working through my problems in Matlab. I noticed other students did just fine with working out the math on pen-and-paper, but I needed the iterative and visual feedback to really grok what was going on. It feels "obvious" to me that different students learn differently -- and different topics demand different learning environments! Why are we trying to shoehorn every student and every topic into a single dominant style?
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As Charlie Munger says, envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that has no upside (isn't even fun).
This model must be able to be simulated somehow! To Minecraft!
The epitome of "fake it 'til you make it"?
Consider either a thermoelectric generator[1] or sterling engine[2].
Either of these can produce power given a hot and cold reservoir. Of course neither device is appropriate for this specific application (the temperature differential between 'surface' air and air in the high atmosphere), but they demonstrate the concept that any temperature gradient represents a form of potential energy.

Whether or not this specific design is an effective way to capture usable energy, I am not sure about. But, having something hot on one end, and cold on the other is a form of potential.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine#Theory
Skipping the third beer is easy. Just jump straight into number four.
> The only illegal thing he did was lie about it so that he could get them their money back.

You're missing the point; giving his investors 'their' money back was the thing he did that was unethical and illegal. If you're a fund manager and the value of your portfolio goes down after making bad bets, you can't just inject your own money into the fund to make it look like you have a positive track record so that you can solicit more outside funds.