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The interesting point is that natives also captured colonials' children and did manage to persuade them to stay. And not just impressionable kids, even adults. People in both symmetric situations tended towards pre-modern lifestyle.

FTFA

The colonials occasionally tried to welcome Native American children into their midst, but they couldn’t persuade them to stay. Benjamin Franklin observed the phenomenon in 1753, writing, “When an Indian child has been brought up among us, taught our language and habituated to our customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and make one Indian ramble with them, there is no persuading him ever to return.”

During the wars with the Indians, many European settlers were taken prisoner and held within Indian tribes. After a while, they had plenty of chances to escape and return, and yet they did not. In fact, when they were “rescued,” they fled and hid from their rescuers.
Power is fungible. Hydro power capacity is capped. Any amount of energy derived from hydro power increases demand from coal from someone else by an equal amount.
If I was as rich as Bill Gates I wouldn't have a smartphone. I would have a secretary follow me everywhere and she would be the one to use her phone.

Just kidding. I'd have an android and a squad of engineers to set it up exactly like I want.
> you can buy a $450 phone with 2 years of updates, or a $700 with 5 years.

> Which one is more economical over time?

My sub-100USD android apparently. What the heck kind of math do you have going on for "economical?"
With wine and spirits, you're often paying for rarity, rather than outright quality.

I'm not a huge wine snob (most wines I buy are in the $10-$20 range), but I have tasted some rather expensive wines. In a lot of cases, you're not really paying for "richness of flavor" (a lot of cheaper wines have plenty of richness and balance), you're paying for name and for rarity, especially when it comes to older wines.

I'm actually more into whisky, and I can tell you in no uncertain terms, that the best whisky I have ever tasted in my life costs around $400. Now, that is still somewhat expensive compared to the <$100 whiskies I usually enjoy, but it's not outrageously expensive, especially considering how long a bottle of whisky lasts, when compared to a bottle of wine, once it's opened.

And it was immeasurably better than any multi-thousand dollar whisky I've had the chance to taste. With Macallans, Dalmores, Pappy van Winkle and other high-priced spirits, you are absolutely paying for a name, not necessarily for the quality.
Why would these demographic changes impact the labor share? A declining labor force participation would (assuming constant productivity) lower GDP, but it wouldn't have an impact on the distribution of that GDP between labor and capital.
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Personally for me and my usage in the UK, a mobile phone plan is more expensive over the course of 2 years.

Yes the initial outlay is more painful, but i find £25 a month much more palatable than £74 (for the same plan with the phone)

back of the napkin maths says the following;
iPhone 7+ 128G (my current phone) - £819
phone plan (unlimited data - 600mins - unlimited texts) - £25/month
Over 2 years - 819+600 - £1419

phone + plan (unlimited data - unlimited minutes - unlimited texts, closest to what i currently have) - £74/month
Over 2 years - £1850
Wondering if I can use it as a personal "Where did I spend my time last week?, how much of it was email/documentation/code/browsing etc." I would however quit if any employer wants to watch over my shoulder with this.
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I want to add that you can easily write your own compile pass for the closure compiler as well. All the optimisations described above are just compile passes.
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I also know a guy who made his living for many years repairing and reselling iPhones, who simply buys the top of the line as soon as it comes out and resells the old one to pay for it, at as close to full price as he can get away with. Since he always gets the most specc'd out phone available, treats it very carefully, always inside an otterbox, and is a pretty decent salesman, he usually gets his price. He also claims it as a tax write-off - business expense.

In that way I think he ends up paying maybe $200 every other year for his new phone. In the last 6 years I've spent WAY more than that on the Androids I used to get and break/lose every year or so. I've finally seen the light and got an iPhone myself and plan to adopt the same strategy.
Not an exact analogy as an s-class car will be held to even higher standards and "bugs" will not be tolerated or excused as price for cutting edge features. Both are stable releases
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Yup, Opa is pretty nice. It just highlights the differences between "compilers" and "transpilers" which came up in another thread recently. There's a number of transpilers that are fairly simplistic transforms of source languages, or JS->JS translation (lowering ES7/6 to ES5, etc) which do limited whole world optimization, and mostly consist of peephole passes.

Closure, Opa, GWT, Dart, and a few others (ScalaJS?) run fully optimizing compiler passes like a traditional old school compiler. For example, IIRC, Dart transforms (or used to) to Hydrogen IR/SSA internally, runs lots of optimizations, and then transforms back before JS output.

This is not to bash transpilers, but I don't consider Webpack/Babel/Uglify in the same category.
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I wonder if the iPhone upgrade program will have these: https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program .

(I'm not affiliated with Apple. However, I do think that it's kind of neat that Apple has way for people to get the latest iPhone each year without having to buy it outright, or be locked to a specific carrier).
Technically code via SMS is 2FA, it is proving one has access to that cell/mobile phone account either directly or indirectly. I would say it is a terrible authentication system but it is a different factor to something you are (biometrics) or something you know (password/passphrase). However cell/mobile phone accounts are really easily to social engineering access to via the phone companies to send replacement SIM cards for that IMSI, not to mention the encryption to/from the phone has known major flaws (especially pre 3G GSM standards). Far better to use TOTP, HOTP or U2F which are actually designed for authentication purposes rather than have the phone company attempt to do it for you.
For what it's worth Vertu is still around (www.vertu.com) and still selling phones to a certain clientele at places like Harrods and Dubai Airport. And with Android 6, Snapdragon 820, a 534ppi screen and a 3200mAh battery, they can at least hold their own against your average android phone.
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Interesting information. I could not even think that it was so easy to do.
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I mean, it's still only three bucks.
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is there any NES port of DOOM that I can try on this emulator?
I feel their use of not providing options between 0% and 20% is deliberate to guilt you into selecting 20% because they know you want to tip something.
PrimeReact 1.0.0-Final released with 60+ open source UI components for React
The Google Closure compiler and library are used as targets by the ClojureScript compiler https://clojurescript.org/about/closure
Absolutely legal.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35301148
"The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that read a worker's Yahoo Messenger chats sent while he was at work was within its rights."
Is EUR/USD Topping?
It's bubble-compensation all the way down.
"I can buy a MBP for $2000, use it for 3 years and sell it used for $1000."

I've used a refurbed Thinkpad T420 for about a year now. It cost me $350 to buy, and I expect it to last at least 2-3 years. Less than $10 a month, and it's more than fast enough to do absolutely everything I need to do. Not too shabby for a 6 year old machine.

The only reason for buying a brand-new computer is if you absolutely need the highest end of computing power, or need the very newest peripheral ports for some reason.
But if any (or most) companies will implement Employee Monitoring software? Will work as a freelancer?
In case you haven't heard, you can now use it without Java https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/08/closure-compiler-i...
I just assumed they'd chosen an annoyingly faint shade of grey. For some reason, the transparency seems even more perverse. I had to zoom quite severely to be able to read it.
Ah the equally frustrating corollary to "works on my machine"
The X220 is a great laptop, especially if you find one with the IPS screen (and no bright/dark spot defects).
> Engineers whos skills range from Great to Mediocre don't have a problem finding a job.

How are you defining "skills" in this case? "Skills" as in the skills needed to perform well in the traditional technical interview gauntlet?

If that's the case then you have a tautology on your hands.

And if not, then maybe it'd serve us better as an industry to try to find a better proxy than the traditional technical interview for whatever definition of "skills" we really want to optimize for.
You could save even more money by getting a cheaper Android phone and treating it just as carefully. The problem you described has nothing to do with the brand.
I have absolutely nothing to back me on this other than gut instinct that the 20% is the base because that's what the IRS assumes for NYC metro area tippable wages. In reality the TLC probably organized a committee of accountants and medallion holders and spent a year discussing what the three options would be.
Indeed, we no longer worry about food, safety and survival and instead our sadness is directed at irrelevant application binary file sizes.
which is why should use Lineage OS.
"However, you can use 3.3.3 cube to play, because it can act as 2.2.2 cube: just use corners and ignore edge and center cubes. Here is mine I used, you can see that corners are correctly solved:"
I think you're extrapolating a bit too much. This is what I meant: an idiot with a ski mask walks into a bank, waves around a shotgun and yells "Give me all your money!"

I would argue it provides negative value because not only does the bank get hurt, but, more importantly, his fellow citizens do -- after all, he's stealing my money and your money. If someone gets physically hurt (e.g. shot), even more so.

I think I could beat your Ocean's 11 caper argument, too, but it would have to involve more discussion about what "value" is. For example, there's probably more "value" in being a doctor than in being a stock broker (even though one makes more money than the other). Similarly, being an art thief, let's say a world-class one, (weirdly) provides more value than being a run-of-the-mill bank robber, but it's still negative. It seems plausible that this kind of argument could work, but I'd have to think about it more.

PS: This discussion reminds me a bit of Peter Geach's Good and Evil[1] (1956).

[1] http://fair-use.org/peter-t-geach/good-and-evil
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Maybe no people were laid off, and they are hiring like crazy. But they are growing like hyper-crazy. The question is: would they've hired more people if it wasn't for automation? Are they hiring at a proportional rate of their growth? This is something that, unless I've missed it, it's not discussed in the article.

It all sounds like wishful thinking or, indeed, a political PR spin.
There are still reasons to replace a laptop before it breaks. For example, my 2012 Asus Zenbook has only 4 GB of RAM and cannot drive an external 4K display. Both are not urgent problems for me since I also have a desktop PC with plenty of RAM and a 4K display, but if I did not, I'd be looking into a replacement for the notebook around now.
Huawei Public Cloud now offers servers with FPGAs
There have been stories in the UK new recently, alleging postal delivery-workers were stealing and selling credit-cards from their deliveries.

For example:

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/revealed-...
idk, maybe try not dropping your phone once a week?
Is it? I think the S8 Plus is the equivalent - unless the new iPhone comes with a stylus.
If you break/lose your phone it's your problem, dude. My Androids are lasting ~4 years each.
I'm confused. Sure, they identified two alleles with occurrence that decreases with age. And sure, that does suggest that those alleles reduce survival rate.

But to demonstrate evolutionary change, they'd need data on occurrence of these alleles as a function of birth date, stratified by age. It'll take some time to get such data. Probably at least a few decades.
Some square speed bumps have a square form factor, wedge shaped sides over here so that if you aim with the bump right in the middle of the car, sufficiently wide-tracked wheels are on each side, negating the bump, presumably for emergency vehicles and buses to not be concerned with the bump.

Obviously obnoxious SUVs and the like are impervious to this, obliviously driving over. Conversely, a chat with my local mechanic turned up an issue with unprotected engine underside (like with most cheap to mid-range cars) means there's a sufficiently higher chance to rip the oil drain plug, meaning slightly increased tow-in rates with each new speed bump. Nasty, although more recent cars have undersides now in an effort to reduce drag and improve compliance with emission regulations.
Honest question: apart from nerds, what reason do we have for valuing 'View Source'?

I mean, you can't 'View Source' anything of the computer the browser is running on, or the browser itself.
Drop every other issue right now! /s
The resale value of a 2 year old Android phone is much lower that a 2 year old iPhone, even it spent those two years sealed in its original box.
You remind me of a friend who, as an excuse for having bought a mobile with shit battery, used to say: "well this way I don't look at it that much!!!". Bollocks.
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"A few seconds of waiting is not "truly inconvenient"? I suppose you're either a zen master, or not doing much with the phone (possibly because it's "a tad slow")."

No, he just isn't possessed by the ridiculous "must go faster, must go faster" mindset that plagues most people today.

A website takes more than a second to load? ARGH it must be down, now my day is ruined!

Just relax, if a small delay is enough to make you "leave the flow", maybe you need to reevaluate your priorities. If your "flow" is interrupted that easily, maybe it wasn't particularly important, anyway.
I'd say you're Windowsing wrong if you changed system file permissions to stop a driver from installing.
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My point is that certain borrowers will lose out if the lender can't be specific in their assessment - see the paragraph following that quote about how some borrowers will win and some will lose.

> I'm not convinced of the objectivity or desirability of perfect economic efficiency in credit allocation. There's plenty of evidence to suggest the information asymmetry will be abused by unscrupulous corporate actors.

Interesting. There are certainly plenty of flaws with credit. A big one for me is that consumers often don't act in their own long term interests and get into too much debt. Another one is that credit is inflexible (compared to equity) when things go bad, and has a tendency to cause crashes. Both of these are a challenges to economic efficiency.

On the other hand, I'm not sure about the benefit of reducing the information that lenders have. I'd be interested to hear your point of view.
The problem with OpenCL isn't performance per se, but performance portability (well it's only a problem for those that need such a thing, of course - many people don't). When you write OpenCL code and you tweak it for one CPU or GPU, it might run at 1/10th the speed on another. This is of course something you don't have with an API that works only on GPU's from one vendor, although even there different generations of hardware might prefer different parameters or tradeoffs.

Now you can write OpenCL kernels that automatically tweak themselves to run as fast as possible on different hardware, but that requires significant extra work over just getting it to work at all.

And finally, CUDA has a bunch of hand-tweaked libraries for doing common numerical operations (matrix multiply, FFT, ...) that are (partly) written in 'NVIDIA GPU assembly) (ptx), so those operations will be faster on CUDA than on OpenCL.

CUDA is also (a bit) easier to write/use than OpenCL code and the tooling is better, so that's another reason people often default to CUDA.
Recent ruling about keyloggers which are a feature of kickidler [1] say usage is illegal [2] (Dated 2017-07-27)

[1]https://www.kickidler.com/en/keylogger.html

[2]http://juris.bundesarbeitsgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/...
Runit: a daemontools-inspired process supervision suite
elm is a good example.
Fun? Hope you guys have a $500,000 or so stashed aside for this fun party. That's likely what you need to prevail even when the facts are on your side.
I don't think anyone sane would buy a two year old android, that would probably push you back to 5.1 for most phones.
You pay for a unique experience, for something that you like but you can' really get anywhere else.

What you're saying is certainly true for a $200-500 bottle of wine and possibly even a $2000-5000 bottle of wine, but once you get up to $20k you're buying a rare collectors item as an investment vehicle and not a drink.
There are a lot of people who create things and learn the hard way what they didn't know at the beginning. Creating Ember and then talking about going back to Flash, says all that needs to be said about his credibility.
As the Apple increases the price of the iphone, people purchasing it is becoming far less. Since the number of people purchasing the iphone decreases, increasing the prices keeps Apples profits up.

Apple is not an innovative company anymore, but trying to be a Bentley in the phone market.
> just as when people say their faith in humanity has been restored

I don't find that convincing at all though.
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Plenty of cheap but great Androids in the $200-300 range, just take a look at the Moto G5 Plus, for example.
‘I dye my hair brown to be taken more seriously at work’
The whole idea of 'LARPing your way into good jobs' is really on point. The article pretty much expressed my own thoughts after experiencing this kind of serendipitous event.
Is using words like "sell-out" for a professional doing his job consistent with HN policies?

This is a genuine question and not a rhetorical one.
I've had nexuses for the last 5 years and have been very happy and certainly not spent the sums you're alluding to.

Unfortunately the nexus is now no more, it's the Pixel which just seems like a rip-off, if I'm going to spend that kind of money I'll go back to iPhones.
> Then they start to accumulate cruft and slow down, eventually becoming barely usable.

When naive users install 3 different weather widgets, 2 battery meters and a custom launcher, you start to understand why people say mid-range phones start to slow down.
And it is definitely a full desktop os.
Domain specific languages I suppose are the next cool aid. Or languages with a comprehensive macro system (like Elixir) can bridge the gap between these ways of thinking. This feels very frontend focused though - I'm wondering if there is a more holistic approach.

I have an idea for a framework/project, that over web sockets, views the browser as a thin client for a server side representation; commands would be sent from the browser but defined on the server. I haven't decided how this would work yet fully but it would be interesting to do the DOM diff-ing on the server and have the thin client only transfer the changes. This would hopefully make the initial payload extremely small and the changes being transferred minimal as well.

Are there any projects that do anything like this currently?
> creating an open source project is a contract with the community, and part of that contract is to assist members of this community

I disagree. Creating an open source project is a gift to the community.

Expecting further time and attention from somebody who gave you a gift, out of a sense of entitlement from having received the gift, is just being rude.

Pay for my time and I'll help you with your issues. Demand my time because you're somehow my "community" and I'll just re-explain the above.
> Is there some proof that a modern lifestyle is better

How many people yearn for the horrors of the past today?
As another whiskey lover, can you tell me what that bottle is?
That's pretty cool. Didn't know that.
With security patches?
While I agree with the overall sentiment, browsers like Dillon and Lynx don't even implement HTTP caching correctly (they cache everything regardless of the headers).

JavaScript is not their biggest problem, as they can plug in one of the existing engines (in fact one of the links forks does just that).
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The code was exported to GitHub, to which I assume is the author's account (rsc):

https://github.com/rsc/qr

However, I'm not familiar with go and all I see there, is what looks like a plain QR encoding library.

There is also code for the web server:
https://github.com/rsc/swtch/blob/master/app/blog/qr.go

Again, I don't know how to dig further to find the source of the qrweb module.

Any ideas?
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There's a problem, however:

The "Tribal living" we're speaking of has a 0% chance of:

Curing disease

Defeating aging

Preventing mass-extinction from a supervolcano or asteroid impact

Leaving the planet before the sun envelops it

Of course, we might not do all of that either. We might get killed by nukes, or climate change. Some of it might not be possible even without those issues.

If you want the human race to continue on, a post-tribal lifestyle is the only way it is remotely possible. It isn't assured - but we know the chance of it happening with tribal living is 0.
"Traditional" taxi does not have to be bad. I think (I may be mistaken?) London taxi drivers are quite polite and also have to memorise the geography of London, which I imagine keeps a lot of would be but lower quality drivers out.
presumably, the parent commenter laments that you cannot easily decipher the code that drives today's webapps, where as yester-decade's webapp's view-source is simple to decipher (and presumably, learn/copy from).
> we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways

Do those children get a choice? Modern western is a multi-culture of choice.
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