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> According to an experiment conducted by Dr. Brian Wansink of Cornell University, sales increase almost thirty percent when menu items are accompanied by a well-written description. Diners also gave these items more favorable feedback and felt more satisfied after eating them.

This is interesting to me. Yes, these are sales techniques and the primary benefactor is the restaurant because they make more profit. But if the diner felt more satisfied after eating the better described food, is it also providing a benefit to the diner by subconsciously helping them enjoy the meal more? (nb: I haven't looked at the study to see if the article is accurately representing what it said.)

(I can also say that the only time I have eaten at a restaurant with these kind of prices was in the late 90s when I was doing a website for one. They gave me free meals when I did the work on site, so I got to enjoy some expensive meals that were outside my budget. It was quite nice, but in the end I'm a $10 meal kind of person.)
Shingles roof is replaced every 15 years, if you have more expensive metal roof it's every 50 years
Sure they did.

>>which stands in opposition to the association you attempt to draw above
Some people collect cars or guns, others tarantulas.
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You violated the site guidelines by taking this thread into just the sort of flamewar we're trying to avoid on HN. Would you please (re-)read them and not do this again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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'post-scarcity economy'

Hahahaha. Ha.

There's going to be plenty of scarcity to go around for the rest of our lives.
And unless you're already in the top 1%, or unless you believe full-on socialism will ever catch on in a country run by and for the benefit of capitalists and corporatists, you can personally expect to see a lot more of it once everything worth doing has been automated.
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you pay $0.95 but it is accepted as $1 so you effectively get a 5% discount. This is done to incentivize spending locally.
> The union at the LCBO is huge and powerful. The jobs, even seasonal ones, pay well [...]

And oddly enough I'm perfectly happy with that. Ontario's strategy with booze is responsible consumption (or whatever it's called)... essentially price it sufficiently high that we don't get too many drunks on the street.

Given how badly alcohol abuse can mess up lives (not just the abuser but their family and friends too, not to mention random folk who they cross paths with) I think this is a sensible strategy.

As part of that strategy I don't think trying to have to the cheapest labour costs is that important. It won't change the end price of booze, it will only ensure that the jobs won't be staffed by long term employees (and hence knowledgeable employees, and employees that can save for retirement, etc).
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Does anyone know of a sort of recipe book for how to file a small claims court case in this sort of matter? I'm interested in this avenue but I don't want to spend a lot of time figuring out how to do it or potentially screw up some little thing that renders the whole effort futile. It seems like the argument might be slightly more subtle than a case of, say, theft or fraud. It's negligence.
I bought reddit gold for ~10 years. And how was I repaid? I was shadowbanned, and when I went to check my old comments that I contributed over the 8+ years I was on reddit most of them were gone.

You coopted the world's conversation into a private space where you could profit from it. This might seem OK in lala-land of silicon valley, but what you have done is horribly horribly wrong in that you've moved millions of people into a place where political views can be easily censored, and where groups like The Cabal can gain power over what is and is not seen by millions.

Reddit is broken. Everything about it is broken, the ad model, is broken. It is damage to humankind so large that routing around may not be enough.
The secure configuration means when Duo is down, you can't login, unless you have some out of band login method that's not protected by Duo. That is a pretty big commitment to Duo's uptime, and it makes sense that it's not the default.
Its interesting that Ontario just introduced the privatization of booze and then turn around and create a monopoly on pot. Well, either way i'm pretty happy that good normal people will no longer be at risk of criminal offenses.
> Yet, without credit rating agencies, you'd get no loans.

Loans existed for millenia before credit rating agencies, so that seems unlikely. It's more likely that the people getting the best loans terms today would pay a higher cost for borrowing without credit rating agencies, and that credit references would be more important, though.
Often missing from discussions of lower CoL areas is risk from different job markets. This is harder to factor in, but since not everyone can work remotely, you need to consider job market liquidity.

If there is a recession can you easily find another job? Do you have a decent selection of local employers to ensure sufficient competition in terms of wages and benefits? Etc.

Living in a high CoL area seems to correlate with a healthier job market.
OK, sure. That part I agree with. I thought you were making the case that because people have been predicting a bitcoin crash for years (they have) and been wrong (they have), that such a crash won't happen (it will).

Speculative investments have boom/bust cycles, they always will. Arguing that bitcoin is somehow immune is silly.

And, specific to bitcoin, when that crash happens it's going to be catastrophic. Daily-trade-to-capitalization ratio for bitcoin is literally 10x lower than it is for any other volatile security. When the owners start fleeing there will be no one to buy.
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With houses getting larger every year, it's crazy to assume anything less than a couple years is possible. An average house is 2.6K square feet and is going to take at least a man-year of time to complete. Materials are about 80% of total labor costs.

Those places with super-low housing costs require some combination of:

1. below average wages for construction workers

2. low standard for building materials

3. surplus of materials to drive down costs
It's bad enough when sites require you to use Facebook to log in. At least Facebook can't send you to jail and you can have (with some effort) a pseudonymous Facebook account.

Sites will use such a service to invade your privacy even further, and the government has a record of every site you've logged into and when.
Created an account. It asks for and confirms email and phone number. Interestingly it does not ask for name or SSN. So it doesn't really represent an identity as a person but rather as a recipient of communications.

Security-wise, starts with using the phone for 2fa, allows setting up TOTP. Generates backup codes and tests for retention. Big problem though: there's no option to disable the phone as a 2fa option. A lesser sin is no U2F support.
If it's a hash without known collision vulnerabilities, then it's 2^80 proof at least. This is definitely "beyond a reasonable doubt".

Even if there were, what's the threat model? "Government creates colliding images one CP and one not, seeds the non-CP versions widely in torrents or something, then uses the hash collision to accuse anyone who downloaded of CP"? That's way more roundabout than governments will bother with; a dirty prosecutor will just fabricate evidence entirely, or have witnesses lie. (Plus, just producing the innocuous colliding image and demonstrating the collision would be an easy and ironclad defense.)
It takes huge amounts of deliberately applied energy to change their orbit. This is about the influence of the radiation on the sensors and systems which help to control the orientation of the satellites. In particular, magnetorquers use the magnetic field of the earth to (very slowly) dump excess angular momentum from the reaction wheels and control moment gyros.

Solar storms can also add a weak torque onto the satellite, depending on the orientation and shape of its body and solar panels. Again, the satellite has an attitude control system to handle such things, but it will still suffer the impulse response from the transient.
The problem being, even if they are different photos, if the same people are in the test set, it may just be recognizing people.

Instead of learning, that person looks like a gay person.

It learns, that person looks like Tim, who is gay.
On the face of it, that feels like companies issuing their own currency to control their employees.
If leaving the company means moving somewhere your money isn't accepted, you won't leave. If you won't leave, the companies can screw you and you have to take it or lose all your savings.
In particular, if you want to think of the law in evolutionary terms, it has two different pressures on it: pressure to become more just, and pressure to become a better tool to protect the powerful. It is not obvious that pressure to become more just is stronger.
Well, the trend is now removing bankruptcy on certain forms of debt as an option, replacing it with cancelling it after X years. This is student debt.
I would use this if it was implemented as a federated state-level service, expanding on drivers license/ID card programs. Not everything, but certainly for applications that already require a drivers license (eg airlines, banks, apartment applications).
Even if you're not concerned that the government might get a list of all the sites you log into, what about arbitrary login revocation? Suddenly someone gets a brain fart and decides that everyone on the terrorist watch list shouldn't be able to use this service? Now you're locked out of all the accounts you used this for, even if you're not a "bad guy".

This is why I don't use "log in with google" or log in with Facebook" -- I don't think those companies are evil (I use them both) but I can't afford for them to accidentally or absentmindedly deny me access to other services.
Whatever that last parameter is on the url, it causes mass rendering artifacts in Firefox/Linux. It works for me w/o.

https://www.windy.com/?20.633,-75.498,5
My other post predicting exactly how the top would play out was flagged, because I'm not a fan of various shenanigans that sadly involve this website, and made a controversial post to that effect.
You can sublet and pay people in cash for a lot less than the official renting price. This is particularly true in places with high real estate prices like LA, NY, NJ and SF where there is rent control. Thus it incentivizes long-term tenants to sublet for a sub-market price.

You can't really buy a house in such a fashion though.
Can you elaborate on what you were hoping for?
Does not Leaf come with 2 years of free charging at ChargePoint locations? Specially in CA, ChargePoint has many locations so you might be able to take advantage of it.
For the most part, orientation is measured optically or thermally - with sun sensors, earth sensors, and star trackers.
Hapax Legomenon is such a satisfying phrase to say. Even the opportunity to look at it makes my eyes happy.
Er, why not? Why would the government shut down the account you use to identify yourself, if not because there was something wrong with it, in which case presumably they'd want you to create a new one?
Would you please not do religious flamewar on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Then you should ask yourself why it is that Germans don't speak Swedish today.
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Apparently this is not uncommon even in normal court.

I sat on a jury in TX where a couple was suing an insurance company, and the insurance company wasn't represented by an attorney. It was really strange, because the first thing the gentleman does is stand up and spend 5 minutes explaining how he isn't an attorney but he regularly represents the insurance company for smaller claims (it was something like $20k IIRC). Then for the remainder of the next hour and a half or so he stumbled around with arguments against the couples slick lawyer. I guess the guy probably lost most of his cases (?) but its worth it to the insurance company to spend a few hundred bucks getting this guy to show up unprepared for an hour or two in the odd chance he could save them $20k every few dozen cases.
Composing components is not easy in ember. The component model in general is much less sophisticated than react or angular.
It's one of two ways. It's either the hash algorithm hashes are strong enough to prevent manufactured hash collisions (not just accidental ones) and the gov could convict on the hashes alone, meaning the files aren't needed and the All Writs Act is not appropriate, so he's not in contempt. OR the hashes wouldn't stand the trial by themselves, and leaves a much weaker argument for the need to decrypt because you're less certain that it would contain the files you think it does.

I think the specifics in this case, Like the sister's testimony, go against the second possibly weakening their argument.
Facial Recognition should not be controversial. What should be controversial, is the shaming of "unapproved behavior". Instead, we should praise wholesome behavior.

Those "bad" effects of widespread and precise facial recognition (and other privacy intrusing systems), should be to realize that if not everybody, the vast majority of us are sinful, and that instead if pointing the finger at some selected scape goat, (now we'd have to point the finger at everybody! thanks to bigdata), it might be better to point the finger at the few saints amongst us.

In the end, this might turn out a very good thing, instead of showing us all the time bad people in the news, to show us good examples!
You must have an efficient gas car! This [1] suggest the leaf uses 34 kwh per 100 miles, or about $10 at your cost per kwh. To cost less than this, with gas at, what $3/gallon? Your gas car needs better than 30 mpg.

[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1082737_electric-car-eff...
what the hell? this is more interesting than the Berkshares themselves.
MKL is developed, owned, and licensed by Intel, not Anaconda, Inc. Anaconda distributes it with permission from Intel. If there were to be wheels built and uploaded to PyPI, it would be by Intel. Instead, Intel has chosen conda as the tool they themselves use to deliver their Intel Distribution for Python.
what is database-based security?
I just hope the EFX breach used an older exploit and not a zero-day. That may have some influence on their perceived liability.
How do you know there's not? If there was only some sort of legally binding arbitration system we could find out.
Oh ok, I see. He was talking about only the gradients of weights all going to the same, single neuron. Then yes, the gradient of the loss in respect to the output of that neuron is a single value, which will be multiplied by x vector. So w_grad vector of weights going to that neuron will have a sign of dL/df, which again, is a single value. Hopefully this is clear.
> There is only one explanation. This wealth was earned unfairly.

Define "unfairly".

If by "unfairly", you mean "earned by owning a company that paid its employees well, gave them stock options that made millionaires out of many of them, and still made the owner insanely rich", well, that's kind of an odd definition of "unfairly".
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Old reputations are hard to shake. This speech[1], by the first administrator of USDS, is my favorite to quote on the topic:

> Some of you, not all of you, are working right now on another app for people to share pictures of food or a social network for dogs. I am here to tell you that your country has a better use for your talents. [...]

> The Social Security Administration mails checks from a mainframe running COBOL, which might kind of be OK except that more than half of the workforce that maintains it is at or near retirement age. What happens then? The Department of Veterans Affairs has a serious backlog of disability claims. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service processes permanent resident applications and everything else on paper. If you lose your green card, it will take you 6–8 months to get a new one and in the meantime you will not be able to prove you have the right to be in the country or get a job.

> All of these are design and information processing problems and all of these are matters of life or death to millions of citizens and all of them are things you can fix if you choose to.

Think about the response to the hurricane this weekend - that's a government function, and we need talented people serving to make sure that people who lose their homes retain access to shelter.

[1]: https://medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/mikey-dickerson-t...
https://pdxcodeguild.com/ They have a great community.

I was also seriously considering https://www.appacademy.io/, I was impressed by their interview process and what they expected you to do prior to getting there, but don't know anything else about the school.
Why did they gave that R3 that option? Why? Is that true?
Personally I wouldn't try smuggling from across, taking beer and smokes across without declaration is significantly less of a risc than taking banned substances. I say this as a Canadian a few minutes from the Washington border.
Experian has not accepted phone applications for a security freeze for a while now.
SSH into any container on a host from anywhere
Who supplies them with beer?

The LCBO (and the rules to prop them and The Beer Store) cannot be the basis for alcohol distribution and retail laws.

LCBO gross margins are very high (49.8) compared to private outfits in Alberta (25%). Their employees also take a nice share in terms of benefits.
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It might if I knew what structural reforms you had been advocating for. But that's the problem with launching ad hominem attacks- people wonder what motive you had to go for the cheap shot.
Anaconda could easily host their own pip index if they wanted. You only need a web server with `autoindex on`.
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I prefer react but angular 2 and 4 are quite good. When used with ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush and ngrx/store, it's great to work with. String dsl based templates are annoying after jsx though, but angular's very nice mostly batteries included approach offsets this mostly. I also feel it's much harder to get hot reloading working as there is no virtual dom in angular. It can be done, it's just more complicated.
> they can negotiate ruthlessly and drive prices down to maximize profit for the people of Ontario

They do. However there's an odd situation that has arisen at least once. The underlying strategy of the gov't is one of social responsibility... essentially not pricing booze cheap enough that you end up with a lot of public drunkenness. This means that the gov't sets a minimum retail price and the LCBO ensures they don't sell below that. The gov't also sets a maximum retail markup (which is odd, one can only assume that at some point this was an olive branch to folks upset about how expensive booze is... sort of a 'we will not charge more than x% markup' promise implemented as regulation/legislation).

Faced with a minimum retail price and a maximum markup the LCBO had to ask a wine seller to raise their prices because even after applying the maximum markup the retail price was below the minimum. Sounds crazy for cheap plonk... but that's exactly what what they're trying to avoid... winos drunk on the street from cheap Thunderbird.

Note I think this only happened the once. It made the news at the time... but I haven't heard of it happening again.
Bill was able to organize the labor of people into something more productive than the sum of its parts. That is a relatively rare skill. Luck comes into it, and we can debate how much of a factor time, place, family networks, etc played into it. But regardless there were incumbents that were much more likely to succeed than him at the start.

IBM had the biggest advantage here. Snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory is one of the largest blunders in modern business.

Gary Kildall failed to land a suitable deal with IBM, and would have been the next in line to be Bill Gates. Even if he did make the deal his personality made it unlikely he'd structure the deal as BillG did which enabled the clone market.

Or Seattle Computer Products that owned the actual DOS BillG used.

Ultimately it was BillG that executed the vision and did so relentlessly for multiple decades. Not many other executives were sleeping under their desks at the time. This was particularly what impressed IBM enough to take a chance on them. Their work ethic as a company was well noted in the industry. BillG set that example from the top.
We couldn't find a decent place in New Jersey that would take our Labrador. Even the place we have now had to be talked into letting us have one of my cats. :|
"Blame the union"

Hmmmmm. If only there was a way for stores to not all be owned by a single entity that is forced to have all of their employees be part of a union. We could call it privatization.
The 5% discount does.
> dumbshit "street you grew up on" nonsense.

I call these what they are: Insecurity questions.

I have also taken to writing completely unguessable nonsense as the answers and recording them in my password manager.
If I had kids, I would tell them to sign up as 18 years old always. No need to have some arbitrary rules restrict them.
I don't think the point of this was to compare rent vs buy. It was to give information for people who want to own a home where the cheapest place to do so is.
freezing credit profiles is a good idea but full account numbers (liability accounts only) as well as addresses and employer data were also part of this breach, its likely there will be many long-term consequences unfortunately...someone with this data can easily impersonate you and level up the level fraud
Different state laws mandating different things.

Federal Law allows a fee, some states have passed laws mandating no fee, or no fee to freeze but a fee to unfreeze, etc
Nice visualization.

I've mentioned the median house price to median income ratio many times before, usually in the context of "how close are we to the bubble collapsing". Around 4:1 is about as high as it gets before something gives. It would be nice to see that map over time.
Technically, the defendant is the one going to the Supreme Court. Of course they somewhat forced his hand by putting him in jail. IANAL, but probably he could have abandoned his fifth amendment defense strategy much earlier, which is the only thing currently before the Supreme Court, go back to the original judge and raise the "I forgot the password" defense there. Under the assumption that he could have done that, and again IANAL so I'm sorry if that is wrong, he is the one forcing the issue at the Supreme Court.

Of course the prosecution has nothing to loose here, so why would they do anything (if they could, I don't believe they play any role in this part), and the judge that made the contempt of court ruling that is the basis of all of this is unlikely to just give in and admit he was wrong, and also probably pretty interested to get a final judgment on what he believes is his legal right to do.

And you make it sound like getting the highest courts opinion is a bad thing. Either way, then we know, and I'm glad I'm not the one that has to wait it out in jail.
Since Congress defines what the law is, couldn't they do it? The only law binding Congress's lawmaking powers is the Constitution, and I don't think it restricts their ability to dissolve corporations.