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How would you like to be born with Huntington's disease, knowing that your parents could have taken an unknown risk to save you from it?

We are all utterly innocent and unwilling participants in being born. You can either take the random cards that nature deals you, or we can try to act to have better outcomes. Just because you refuse to take action doesn't absolve you from taking a suboptimal action.
I can think of no worse advice than this. I really hope this is intended to be tongue-in-cheek.
the evidence is pretty clear that many facets of our personality are heritable. the notion that we choose our behavior reduces to blank-slatism, and only ascientific social theorists believe in that.
You could just as easily write `posts.filter(user_id.eq(1)).load(&connection)`.
Ethan's character bothered me, too. The guy was hiding a serious heart defect, and while the viewer was meant to sympathize with his drive, it's not going to be much fun for his fellow crew members when a sudden infarc renders him unconscious and useless during some touch-and-go orbital emergency on the far side of Titan.
Not all software engineers have the fortune to work for some startup or trendy employer that would be fine with you missing work for something like this.

My employer is pretty awesome in many ways, and they've demonstrated to me over and over that they value having me there - but at the end of the day I work in corporate America and I have no doubt that missing an entire week off unscheduled would endanger my employment with them (my managers would fight for me, but HR gets the final word and policy is pretty clear).

Now, in this case, you may very well be right that the potential ramifications may be even worse than losing your job in the long term - but people with families depending on them have the short term they have to think about too, there's a reason plea bargains are so common in the US even when you have a good case to defend against.
I doubt you are hiring. It this an attempt to get people to try out your product? hmm...
was going to comment on this but will add on to yours. many states prohibit felons and even some non felons but with criminal records from certain fields that require occupational licensing.

do you have methods in place or planning to filter jobs with such restrictions as not all states adhere to the same rules.

great idea btw
This is all about the ethics of future applications of technology. I'm talking about "fixing" an embryo with trisomy so that it doesn't have trisomy. We don't have to get into the particulars of current technology or little differences in various genomic anomalies. Or we can pick pretty much any other disability, and one that is a mutation in a DNA sequence. My question stands. What is the objective, non-religious thing that the parent thinks we should optimize for, or what determines what things we should and shouldn't be messing with in the genome that won't result in a Gattaca-like dystopia where vain people have eliminated diversity from our species for shorter-term competitiveness by some metric at the expense of all sorts of good stuff about humanity.
> The study found that it can exaggerate a company’s valuation by as much as 94 percent.

Whilst it may be technically true, it's not useful to employees granted common shares. You might naively think you should haircut the value of your stock by 50% to get a fair valuation. But that's not true. Depending on the exit/IPO valuation, a liquidation preference could reduce the amount paid to common shareholders by anything from zero to 100% (i.e. infinite overvaluation of common equity).

> The study said Uber’s valuation of $69 billion is only 12 percent higher than the fair value approximation.

Yes, if a company's valuation goes up significantly between rounds, then the liquidation preferences (which are a form of downside protection) will have less (or perhaps) zero effect.
This is the general opion I've encountered.

"If you haven't climbed the ivory tower you don't get to speak in the ivory tower... Also, we in the ivory tower don't listen to those not in the ivory tower. Less we ourselves are cast down from our perched position."
Strangely similar to Richard Branson!
I think it has to do with the traditional app model slowly being phased out.

There is a huge saturation of apps on every major platform and it's getting harder and harder for new devs to get enough userbase that way.
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SoundCloud reportedly close to selling stakes that will help to keep it afloat
> I'm considering setting up as an Estonian e-resident soon though (https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/) to change where I pay my taxes.

Talk to a solicitor before you do this unless you want HMRC to come a knocking. Estonian eResidency is not actual residency, and it won't change the country you're resident in for personal tax purposes. You could set up a company in Estonia, but if you're an independent contractor and all the profits from that company flow directly back to you HMRC may again have questions (and you'll still have to pay taxes on the dividends you receive at the UK rates).
Slick was definitely an influence on Diesel's design. I tried to have our query builder map more closely to SQL though, whereas Slick feels like it's trying to pretend it's just an Iterable.
Regardless of the price, an exchange cannot seize customer assets by giving them 10 days notice for withdrawal. It doesn't matter if it's a separate currency - we have things resembling this in public markets, like stock splits. It doesn't matter if everyone can fork the cryptocurrency, that doesn't change the principle of a customer's asset.

What Coinbase should have done is this:

1. Stood their ground on not supporting trading for the cryptocurrency, because they are under no obligation to develop new features.

2. Implemented a system to disburse the forked currency to customers if needed.

3. Implemented an explicit trigger price for acknowledging the new currency, which would function for potential forks of currencies already supported on the platform. If the currency does not pass a specific (very low, far lower than $700) mark, they don't disburse it, but if it does, they immediately support disbursal to anyone who requests it.

The organic state of a cryptocurrency fork is that all extant holders receive a new asset, which may or may not be worth anything. A company cannot seize that asset without consideration. If the price of the currency subsequently crashes, then it crashes; that does not change the rights of a customer to their assets, which cannot be signed away with an email sent out 10 days before the event.
Interesting paper. From the abstract: We find that the demographic structure of the population and the incarceration rate are important determinants of crime. Our results suggest that a tougher incarceration policy may be an effective way to contrast crime in Europe.

if i'm reading that right, they're suggesting that European incarceration policies/rates/sentences (or something) are too lenient (?). so, Europe has the opposite problem when compared to the US?
Windows 10
Same in London
Fun mathematical aside: if you have a polynomial with positive integral coefficients, then you can uniquely determine it with only two points, no matter the degree.
Hi, thanks for taking the time to explain your ideas.

There are certainly many ways to model this problem in the database. But to me the main idea of the article is implementing a FSM as a user defined aggregate. This is technique is actually not mutually exclusive with an "accumulating snapshot" table, and in fact the trigger could be modified to maintain such a table instead or in addition to the order_events table.

I don't quite understand why you insist on not having a transactions (order_events) table. IMO it's very helpful for auditing purposes, and can be used to capture additional data for each state transition. E.g. you could easily put an IP column on it. From what I can tell you'd have to add one column per event for doing this with your accumulated snapshot table. Our application has ~10 events, so I'm not sure I'd like to have an explosion of columns on it.

Also, I think your solution falls apart completely when it's possible to re-enter a previous state. (or would you overwrite the first timestamp?)

Last but not least, there are many advantages to putting logic into the db. I know you object to the advanced analytics because they can be done differently when you control the DB schema from day one. But imagine you inherit a database with an events table that can't easily be modified to use an accumulating snapshot table. How would you write analytical queries against it? Another advantage of keeping logic in the database is reducing the number of queries (and network overhead) that are needed.

Anyway, you've made many good suggestions, but I think you've taken the toy example a bit too serious. It's very hard to come up with good real world examples without disclosing details of your actual application (which I can't in this case).

Anyway, using FSMs backed by user defined aggregates is definitely not an academic solution. This powers a mission-critical application of one of the worlds big companies for a database with over a billion records. It's also not the first iteration, and previous implementations at the application layer had caused problems that FSMs inside the DB have solved. Last but not least, this modeling the problem domain as FSMs has allowed the entire team (including non-technical people) to deeply and correctly understand how our analytics work.
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I'd agree that $90 for a single item seems quite high to throw away without contention. My ballpark would be closer to $20-30, because it's not unusual for the fee to be over $10.

But that's my own subjective feeling, and I imagine others put their range higher or lower based on factors like distance to UPS store or Amazon locker, or how much they logistically have on their plate.
I think the limit the other commenters are mentioning are only for moving bitcoins out of GDAX, their exchange. I don't think there is a limit to how much you can withdraw from a wallet directly on coinbase not on the exchange
I'm experiencing the same thing right now. Even in Dynamic languages that claim to support FP like Python and Ruby i feel like i'm i have to concede building a compossible system because the language itself is so coupled that the trade off of code is too high.

The biggest pain point is both languages couple objects to polymorphism. Now if i want runtime dispatch, i have to create an instance of an object and push data inside of it.
As a principled human being, you can choose your actions.

The defense against a wolf is (generally) not eating the wolf.

The defense against invasion of privacy is not more privacy invasion.
My daughter is 3 and learned to use a phone/tablet before she was 2. Whenever I'd pull up YouTube on my tv she'd walk to the tv and try to swipe it as well. Often getting upset thinking the tv was broken, haha.

She was used to iPads, but one day I gave her my Android tablet. She was upset at first because things are slightly different, but adjusted quickly. I was shocked at how fast she picked it up.
Great advice. This is pretty much what I did when working on https://ipinfo.io on the side (now fulltime).

For support tickets I use and highly recommend helpscout - it's cheap, and works well. The android and iOS apps need some work, but it's possible to do basic issue management from mobile.
Resistance training may slow down the progression of multiple sclerosis
"This being said" sounds like otherwise the metric works. I wonder how. The first two points do not seem right (measuring code commits! Punishing bugs, tracking the burn rate as the person's measure of progress!) The last two points are subjective, but the objectivity of the first two points is likely misleading. At the same time, because they are perceived as objective, they are likely to lead the overall measurement of progress. So the example you gave in the last paragraph (of people avoiding blame) does not sounds as an exception, more as a consequence of the choice of progress measurement tools and criteria.
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Such terminals are already nothing new in China. I saw it in a resident estate a year ago and apparently according to what I've heard they're already a common part of people's daily lives. Amazon is just picking it up now.
I don't understand how 30% of Americans is a niche market? Can you elaborate some more?
That's actually what I was looking for. I'm was too out of practice in general with signatures in static languages and unfamiliar with Rust's syntax in specific to figure it out and express what I was looking for correctly. ;)
I found that it reduced my concentration and ability to focus.
There will always be a segment of society that were bullied as kids and get their rocks off being as cruel as possible to those they believe deserve it.

People like that are not part of this conversation.
On the other hand, Canada does seem to make some odd laws or judgements, such as the supreme court (or a similarly high court) judge ruling that for the purpose of child pornography laws, "person" includes a completely fictitious character, not based on any real person, and may have extremely abnormal and non-humanlike proportions.
Yes, that's why the best way to increase the numvber of remote companies is to build them from scratch, with a remote incubator. That's what I am doing: http://www.startcrowd.club
It depends of they laws of the country where you stay. For example, my country requires me to pay taxes if I live there for more than 6 months a year (180 days). And theoretically you pay taxes where you live at that moment, but if you only stay for a month and them move to another then it is complicated, most people justify that they are on holidays there and pay taxes in their "usual" living country. I think most countries doesn't have laws to regulate this type of things.
In line with advertising success of employers, do any states off employers incentives to hire convicted felons? Tax breaks or similar? If so, advertising this advantage may help. This approach is used by some governments but I'm unfamiliar with what happens in the US, and have really only seen depressing stories previously.
Edit: tax breaks are mentioned, found it. It's attractive to employers so it's good it's there.
This is how my 11 year old daughter uses YouTube now... After 30 min, DNS no longer works for entertainment sites. In order to fix that she has to do 5 Khan problems or read thoery.com, Duolingo, prodigy math, code monkey, splash math, Xtra math, or typing club. It takes her 5 to 7 mins to earn points. My server detects points and re enables DNS replies for YouTube, etc. Best result so far is she now understands how fast 30 mins goes by and has no interest in watching YouTube all afternoon. I have spent ton of time and resources on this last 12 months. We are releasing new beta in 2 weeks. DNSLearning.org. Do Not Stop Learning.
There is literally a 'Report Abuse' button about two inches below the download button. That's what you use in this case. Being able to leave a review of something you haven't tried would just be silly.
You can lock down the iPad to not allow youtube, web browsing or any app installs / in app purchases and they have to come to you for permission to install new games.
Uber drivers have fair wages, considering they are working in a saturated market and competing with people with the qualifications of a 16 years old teen.

There are a lot of people with these qualifications.
This guy gets it. Congrats, and best of luck!
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Wow... I had no idea.
It sounds like justification for a decision made for less quantitative reasons.

Yes. And the perception of objectivity from the first two points (of the parental article) helps in hiding this.
Yeah, because righteous revenge works so well for maintaining a civil society.
I can't wait until this technology matures and I can fly in to a clinic somewhere in the world to have this work completed so my future children will never have to suffer from debilitating diseases.
It may be simplistic, but I believe if you've done the time, you should not have a criminal record hanging over your head when trying to find employment. For a third or fourth time offender, I may give pause, though.
As long as Helm can't pull dependencies directly from git, it's still not a good fit for git-versioned repositories.
The S3 outage was across the whole US-EAST-1 region, not just one data centre.

I know my company and a few others that are redundant within a region (ie if one AZ goes down), but not if a whole region goes down.
Yes, but what's illegal changes.

Consider: during Prohibition here in the U.S., alcohol was illegal. Were a similar situation develop, should discussion of alcohol distilling be illegal? What about where to find a speakeasy? What about simply discussing how wrong a ban on alcohol is?
Why design robots to work in the wrecked reactors, when there are people without this irrational fear of radiation?
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Yes! I've been doing similar manual/analog solutions but it's hard to keep up with
I've seen the same -- I know someone who got in early to BTC, then moved it all into Ethereum early, such that he has enough to comfortably retire today. But he won't cash any of it in except for a small amount each month to live on, while he lives rent free with others.

When I explain the logic of hedging and mitigating risk and locking in gains, he was insistent that the right strategy is to hold because it's going to go up some more, and he doesn't need the money now for any of his current objectives.

Come to think of it, I should at least consider that he's making it up, but I've met him several time and he's well versed in crypto and way ahead of the curve in learning about this stuff. Who knows?
Well for one, Down's syndrome naturally limits what one can do with their life. How many scientists are there with Down's? Any limits placed on someone for being homosexual are placed there by other humans and not a natural limitation.
>without even a casual attempt to understand the thought of those who are a little more circumspect.

As someone more circumspect, can you illuminate me?
It should be pretty easy to filter out, given that there will be a very strong correlation between length of the drive and rating.

Passenger rating does matter when it comes to how fast you are getting your ride.
Yikes. That's unnerving to read. Were you able to create a bug report? Was there any other related issue like an underlying storage controller messing up?
It took me three reads of the first couple of paragraphs to realise that "snowball" and "snowmobile" were actually hardware products that you can touch. Tech news publishers need to do a jargon check and use appropriate punctuation, formatting or something to call out terms that 90% of readers would not have come accross
I absolutely loathe youtube's suggestion stream. It is clearly designed to be exploitative of children's media-illiteracy.

Clickbait, misleading and outright deception in the headlines and thumbnails. For lack of a better term "trend-whoring" (a couple weeks back, a number of the video game streams suddenly had fidget spinners in all their thumnails)

I'm planning (hoping) on becoming a parent in a couple years, and it makes me really appreciate the regulations imposed on television regulators. Or the trust I'd have subscribing to a paid content service.

Youtube's suggested content feed often feels like dredging through bottom feeding sludge. And that's as an adult! I couldn't imagine subjecting children to that.

I often feel that way about AMP suggestions on my phone, though it isn't quite as bad, it sometimes goes really crazy.

I'm happy to read the rest of the parent-comments in this thread though, I'd love to hear what the rest of you with a bit more experience do.
Ironically, I was actually originally planning on having Diesel primarily built around parsing actual SQL. (See the commit message of https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/commit/2ba8bf481c3d21d8b..., which is like commit number 4)

I agree that if you're just writing a single self-contained query, SQL is a great DSL for that. I've been trying to improve our story for working with raw SQL (one tradeoff will be that it isn't type checked).

However, there are major benefits to an in-language DSL as well. If you are wanting to re-use fragments of queries, or conditionally construct a different query, that's a pain to do with SQL strings.
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What would be a better representation?
I've had a leg immobilizer and crutches for a bit now. People keep telling me I should uber/lyft around to be more mobile but I can't easily do that. My two choices are to sit lengthwise across the back seat after a lot of work scooting in or to get in the front with the seat all the way back. Both will annoy a lot of drivers and trash my rating.

It's been pretty eye opening.
I think the patties were sold in pairs at Whole Foods for about $8, so $4 a piece. Kind of steep but in a world where people pay $9 a serving for BlueApron seems competitive enough.
I imagine there's a balance to be had somewhere, but offering superior customer assurance also means an increased willingness to buy from smaller vendors.

We should ultimately facilitate a marketplace where both business and customer have confidence in their transactions, rather than lingering suspicions that they don't understand the deal and will have to eat the cost.
I don't think he's arguing the disparity of the rate, but rather the implied generalization that former-convict = African-American. Look at the statistics posted above, that is not true. I agree, it needs redesign.
Apple appears to be working on a yoga workout mode for Apple Watch
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>Apple is already being beaten on many fronts, smartphones included.

And the OS for those other smartphones is made by Google, which is one of the other Big Four.
The country with more capable populace will produce more valuable goods and services. If free trade is allowed, trade imbalance will accumulate to an extent that might tip the scales in other domains, including global standing.

Technological and military power also fundamentally depend on the quality of people.

Full-scale war is not likely in the near future, but will people accept being an underdog after a century of dominance?
I think the parent comment is just a hypothetical situation, and blhack isn't actually a bitcoin millionaire.
Very sad. I first read about Khartabil in 2015 (the year he probably died, we now know), because of his work to digitally preserve Syrian historical sites:

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2015/1...