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Imagine a conception occurs with a random mutation that causes a miscarriage. That's evolution in a few months.

Imagine one that causes someone to be infertile. The balance of genetics changes (evolution) in a generation.

Africa went from 1/2 the population of Europe in 1950 to 1.6x the size today. The gene frequencies on those two continents are different -
thus there has clearly been differential fitness (in the hundreds of millions in a lifetime)
Is there a reverse incentive here?

*IF we bloat AWS costs for 1 year, then at year end find a way to cut 50k.. bam, big bonus?

Maybe if the adding to AWS cost team is a different team from the lowering cost team...
It's not like none of this was known before Trump was elected president - and yet this is what America elected anyway. Many Americans are looking to end the 'American Era' - an era where America has maintained the world order. They point to our $20 trillion debt and exclaim that leadership comes at too great a cost. It'll be interesting to see how much our standard of living is affected. To me that's the really dangerous scenario: an America suddenly realizing it's losing it's political and economic power.
How is it not her own fault for wearing dangerous clothing (a hijab) in a factory workplace? Something as simple as long hair can be dangerous in such an environment, and a hijab or scarf is unthinkable. Darwin award.
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This is a bullshit perspective when companies lobby and play all sorts of tricks to manipulate the law itself.
They do, more or less. It's called MPI-IO, but it's still tough.
"40-50 over a few months"
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Isn't putting target="_blank" in your markup not the better way instead of using a JS libary for that?
Someone asked me if the algorithm could be reversed to make text more readable.

Able rightly, etc.
No.

There are clear differences on who is responsible here. We can expect a factory to be always responsible over their area as it is a larger entity and doing business and we expect them to be experts and be in control of their own domain. We can expect them to be responsible over their non skilled labourers.

A plumber is the expert in this case and he controls his domain while you are just a dumb customer.
They could still have the HSBC logo, it would just need to be in ascii....
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Obesity is a negative for both the individual and society. The fat acceptance movement is terrible because being fat isn't some sort of permanent, genetic condition that's out of people's control. You control what you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, it's a choice.

Should we have an ignorance acceptance movement, where we don't push people to educate themselves? That's a choice as well.
The GP is saying that rational expectations is used not because it's simple, but because it makes the weakest assumptions about human behavior. However, I'm not sure this is entirely accurate since if some agents deviate from the equilibrium, there is no reason you couldn't end up with totally different outcomes (either better or worse).
Yeah I've done that. Ben and Jerry's does it better. I don't think there's any Great Ice Cream Awakening - I see more and more premium brands on the shelf. They all exceed my criteria for being excellent. People who are happy with crap will still buy crap.
So you can have another kind of address twin, where you live in the same house number and street etc, except a different portland?
If it is true, as is often claimed, that racism is universal and therefore fighting it is pointless or should not be done, then the same should be true of other universally-occurring antisocial behaviors.
In my experience it's all about where the sales target gets set with sales people, as it can be really hard to differentiate the "seat" from the person. I.e. An all star salesman at one company, given a different product/company might not be able to make their numbers. Hence the old saw that good salesman find easy products to sell...
You misunderstand US law. Yes, someone can use my SSN (along with other private information) to create a debt. That doesn't make me liable. If it shows up on my credit report, I can disclaim responsibility using existing legal protections. As long as I truly didn't create the debt, it is the debt holder's problem.
Nothing.

You just might have felt how some dyslectics feel.
I grew up in a neighborhood where one pair of streets intersected twice. This led to quite some confusion whenever a friend said "Meet me at Kiln & White." The two intersections were far enough apart that many people did not know there was a duplicate, and both were prominent junctions suitable for meeting other kids.
I have a mildly involved situation with numbering. I live in the top-floor flat at 29 Acacia Avenue, N4. There are two flats below me.

Note to Americans: in the UK, the floor at street level is the ground floor, the one above that is the first floor, above that is the second floor, etc.

According to the Royal Mail, the addresses here are 29, 29A, and 29B. The normal convention is for 29 to be the ground floor, and 29A and 29B to be the first- and second-floor flats; that appears to be the case based on current and previous occupants' post etc. All well and good.

When i moved in, i was left some documentation from the letting agency who were running the place before that gave the address as 29C. I have seen no other mention of 29C.

The Land Registry knows about three leaseholds here: 29, 29B, and 29. Yes, 29 appears twice. Based on the diagrams and descriptions in the registrations, one 29 is the ground floor flat, 29B is the first floor, the the second floor is 29.

Mostly, this has no impact, and is just annoying. The one real-world consequence is that the bank who issued my neighbour's mortgage thinks her address is 29B, because that's what's on the leasehold they lent against, so i get her mortgage statements.

I thought i'd get this corrected, so i wrote to the Land Registry, and they replied that they would change it if i sent them documentation from my street numbering authority, ie my council, stating the correct numbering.

The council think the flats are called Flat 1, 29 Acacia Avenue, Flat 2, 29 Acacia Avenue, and Flat 3, 29 Acacia Avenue! I don't want the Land Registry to use those designations, as they're even further from the ground truth of what the Royal Mail thinks. I also don't want to risk triggering the Royal Mail updating its database, as that could screw up postal delivery. So i'm stuck.

Meanwhile, and the Valuation Office Agency thinks the flats are called Ground Floor Flat, 29 Acacia Avenue, First Floor ... you get the idea.

Fortunately, all these designations seem to interoperate alright. The VOA sets the bands for council tax, which the council collects, so somehow, the council are mapping those designations to their own ones. The council send me the bills for council tax at Flat 3, and the Royal Mail delivers them.

Oh, and there's another 29 Acacia Avenue in N14, four files north. I get their post sometimes.

EDIT: I spoke too soon. After writing this comment, i thought i'd register to manage my council tax online. The bill is actually sent to "Second Floor, 29 Acacia Avenue", but that address isn't in the list of options on the council's website, which only has "Flat 3, 29 Acacia Avenue". I can't select the former, and the latter is rejected as not matching my account number. Checkmate!
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Well I was going to say I don't really see how this is much different from e.g. Google Groups. Groups messages go into an archive that is searchable/readable by new members. But just having a message archive isn't really that helpful unless it can be organized further, and that's where it breaks down -- the job of organizing the group archive has all the same problems of keeping the team wiki up to date: its easy to get behind, and the content grows stale or hard to use.
haha exactly same here :)
They pull in $250 Billion a year and have almost half a trillion in assets, I think they can manage...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group
nothing out of the ordinary I think. 2 computers on for about 8 hours/day. Dishwasher, TV on for 2 hours/day. iPad, home lighting.

I think some people in this thread are severely underestimating their energy usage. I wonder if people are just ballparking their estimates based on some rough data from years ago or if they're actually looking at last month's bill when saying they're using < 100kWh in a month.

Maybe for a single person who is never home that would be reasonable, but I can't imagine families being able to survive on so little.

edit: so this was driving me a little crazy and so I had to do some extra digging. My guess is that people not aware of their true usage. According to this [1], the average US household uses > 900kWh of energy/month. We're at half that so clearly not going overboard.

[1] - http://insideenergy.org/2014/05/22/using-energy-how-much-ele...
How is fastmail's spam filtering? I've been using Zoho mail for a while and like it except their spam filtering is quite poor.
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Well, I mean, they say that, but ultimately it's always subservient to other goals they have. I guess maybe you are right in a technical sense.
Or they dispatch to both as appropriate.
I disagree. You charge a very high price for a service because you know you have no competition, like Apple does. You have your right to do so. But that's the way it is.
Switching letters and words like what you described happens to me occasionally *but not consistently) when I'm really tired or not fully awake yet.

Just wondering - do fonts like https://opendyslexic.org/ make it easier for you to read?
Is it easier to type with your eyes closed? I guess I don't know if it's the eyes doing things wrong or some language center somewhere in the mind.
I think you're overreacting. The GP wasn't being conservative about new languages for new projects. S/he was merely warning that rewrites carry their own risks, which might outweigh the benefits of better languages (or for that matter other infrastructure). If you avoid 100 bugs in the new version but add 101 because you didn't completely understand the old code and the environment it runs in, you haven't come out ahead. This phenomenon has been too well known for too long to be blithely ignored.
I would not post on a forum called "my stupid bitch wife" or call her that online.
Totally wrong in my point of view. If you have a good product it will sale by itself, only poor product need aggressive sale people to sell them.

It's not about who is selling, but what are you selling?

My father is selling product, did a very nice job, but because he did too much result, get is commission removed or downsized but yeah the commission is the solution...
> But I really liked the way that they are containing it.

Please let this be sarcasm...

> They are communicating it to their customers transparently.

They knew well in advance that there was an issue and did not communicate it well. They have 3 higher managers that look to have sold their stock based on the knowledge. There are some reports that they knew up to 3 months ahead of their announcement.

> They launched a specific site for security scans for their user for free.

Things that are wrong with this site:

- The site screams "phishing" when you look at the URL.

- Asks for SIX digits of your SSN. If you know the state of the person filling out the form and they were issued their SSN before 2011, you only need to try a few numbers to figure out their whole SSN.

- Gives random results when you fill out the form

- You possibly forfeit being able to sue them by filling out the form.

- When you fill out the form they basically advertise their own product to you.

At this point, as a consumer, it feels like they are doing everything in their power to get away with not being held accountable for not storing this data properly.

8 in 10 US credit card holders have their SSN and possibly other information out there. This means that I'm at high risk to have my identity stolen in the future, not just the next twelve months that Equifax is offering me free Identity Theft Protection.

Last but not least, when you freeze your credit score, they give you a PIN to unfreeze it. But if you were to lose it, you'll only need some identification to get a new PIN and unfreeze it. But they've already released that identification and it's being sold around. So no luck there.
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It seems to me that since fluent readers can still read this dyslexic text, that it's not that our brains can't learn to read it, but that we suck at teaching how to read to people with dyslexia.
I could see this being the premise to a sitcom, next door neighbors actually get to know each other because of this.
This is like a written version of how I seem to hear other people. Even when actively listening, I frequently hear different words (whatever my brain wants to hear or is predicting it heard, perhaps) which I question and generally find I heard wrong.
I also disagree with some of the points in the Original Post. We need a balanced risk profile (Adam Grants Original).

But I would also say that there is no one size fits all solution to this. There is no checklist, which if followed guarantees success. On the other hand, the same reasoning goes for not following a checklist at all.. Its like balancing intuition vs logic.

Atleast thats what I think for now, based on the limited experiences that I have had. I might change my mind later..:)
Right, a Honda Accord is a nice car to most people and could be interpreted as top of the market.

Now, if your post said for the right person, I had a budget to give them $150k in Austin, TX then we'd be getting somewhere. "top of the market rate" is just too ambiguous in most experiences.
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I have trouble visualizing how the view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth reconciles with pictures showing whole galaxies. Are we seeing it edge on? Is there any cool animation showing it first from the outside, then rotated to match how we see it in the sky from Earth?
The comments are GOLDEN!

Read the back-and-forth about the definition of bravery, from “Ben Tarr” and the rest of the commenters.
As far as I know, USA is the only country that uses such terrible credit system. In most other countries credit rating is controlled by the government itself or is at least heavily regulated. I haven't encountered any problems with my credit system -- nobody can check my credit rating without my prior written (or digitally signed) permission and I can login online anytime to see who has checked it. Furthermore, once in a year I can get a complete, free report to explicitly see how my credit rating is calculated.
Any particular reason why you don't install using homebrew?
File write could work the same as socket send. If the data cannot definitely be written now, write nothing and allow the application to try again, probably after waiting for readiness via poll or select.
>> I’m still dealing with the damage to my credit rating that resulted when I forgot to return a library book and a collection agency was called in (for a paltry sum).

...

>>Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep), an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina

You'd think she of all people would know better.
What a load of horseshit. From the referenced report:

"In 2016 we began observing actors we believe to be North Korean" - key phrase "we believe".

"Now, we may be witnessing a second wave of this campaign"
- "may be".

The whole article is just fishing for connections with zero ties to anything solid. Even if they did connect two dots, we can now claim that a few people doing something is the entire North Korean regime? Pppplease.
Fully agree. Fastmail is one of the very few "cloud" services I think is worth paying for (as an individual -- obviously businesses find value in e.g. AWS). I do the annual payment of $50 which effectively is two free months out of the year.
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No, both are bad and we should not forget none of them.
Right, I read that part. It's still unclear what the purpose of the post was. Are you trying to dissuade people from betting the farm on a venture? If someone sent you an email and said "As a result of your blog post I went out and _________" what would you want that (blank) to be?

Separately, I don't agree with the premise that big risks in and of themselves are sexy. Big Risks around a overwhelmingly huge opportunity, in an exciting sector with clear momentum are what is sexy.

Nobody thinks the person with no capabilities, risking everything for a terrible idea is sexy. Like this guy:

The creator of "Bulletball:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOw2yWMSfk

Does anyone think this guy or his idea is sexy? No. Those people are cranks and loons and are generally derided and dismissed.
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Have you had your hearing checked? This can be a side effect of your brain attempting to make up for hearing loss.
That's still pretty complicated IMHO. Write some markdown files in a directory structure, run mkdocs over it. Voilà... indexed, searchable static website.
The way you described "Typoglycemia" is exactly how I see new words. I have really awful vivd memories of having to read Shakespear out loud in English Lit at school during my GCSE years. So many words in that were new or uncommon.

Over the years the words have stopped jumping around less which is nice. However I still look at new words and have absolutely no idea how to pronounce them.

I think my dyslexia is very much routed in how sounds link to the glyphs, when I see a word like Typoglycemia I have to specifically recall from memory the sound that "glyce" make, it's not intuitive to me, it's entirely the fact that I've memorised it and sometimes that can take quite a while to recall.

Everyones is slightly different, my handwriting looks like I've never used a pen before, it's really quite funny sometimes.

Hope that sheds a bit of light on my experiences with it!
No, they'll still be at fault because if you have a massive pile of highly sensitive data online, and all it takes is one vulnerability to get at it all, then your security model was awful.

Was this database typically accessed with broad-sweeping queries that could snarf large amounts of it at once, or was it the sort of thing where a few specific keys were used to identify a single client record? My thinking is that it was probably the latter, and if that's the case then another layer of security should have been in place there. Stored procedures can be used to require very specific queries to access very specific records--this falls under the "prevention" category. Next, monitors should be deployed so that someone gets notified right away if some session makes a large number of successive queries to get around the restriction--this goes under the heading of "detection". These two things would have been able to prevent attackers getting the goods with just one exploit.

...yet companies regularly fail to take these kinds of simple and rational steps seriously, and then act like it was all just too hard for anyone to possibly defend against.
Your link doesn't seem to work for me, but I presume you're talking about Reflections On Trusting Trust[0]?

[0]: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
This and the other MB announcement come at interesting times. Both these companies are slightly on the back foot in Germany. BMW supposedly took the strategic route of redirecting investment into electric a while back. they already have the i3 and the i8 (which, depending on how you look at it, could be the most beautiful or the most ugly car in the world) and in a few months the X7 hybrid SUV. VW has Golf and Passat hybrids, whereas MB just discontinued their B series leaving them with no electrics at all. BMW had nothing to show for the last few years going up against MB's latest line-up refresh and the poor sales over the last few years reflects how dated-looking BMWs have been. I'm thinking BMW has another ICE refresh to go before they too go fully electric/hybrid, and it might happen sooner rather than later.

Tesla is probably an important competitor but at the moment I'm more likely to believe BMW, Audi and MB could pull off a production capacity of a million+ hybrids per year each by 2020 if they put themselves to it.

* I wrote a similar comment in the MB submission.
More generally, only if your input is an integer multiple of your alphabet.

However, there are methods of converting uniform distributions that will preserve uniformity. I'll have to find a good reference.
You can justify some illegal activities, it's not a crime if nobody finds out / cares.
> Also telling that this article has less than 20 comments on Hacker News

It's only been up for an hour, slow down.
The fact remains that 95% of people going on diets to lose weight aren't successful in keeping it off long-term and the only method that seems to show significant success is surgery. I find it hard to believe that the only problem here is that fat people aren't aware they're fat. Harping on it in the way you're advocating just discourages people from doing anything healthy, since, you know, if getting slim is all that matters, why bother exercising if you're still fat at the end?
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There is no problem with every day use.
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How good are these guys, and what happens if... NK gets all internet access cut off from the rest of the world?
The same is true of spouses, and in fact, the healthiest couples (or at least those with the most children) seem to be third or fourth cousins:

"Third Cousins Have Greatest Number Of Offspring, Data From Iceland Shows"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207140855.h...

Not exactly what you'd expect given how often we see "hybrid vigor" touted as a purported benefit of interracial marriage.
This sir, is the ultimate rule for following up side projects. I think this even applies to life in general ( Only in life's case its more like jazz music, you are improvising all the time, enjoying the process)
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I wait for it to be validated by the client and then apply the patch according to the established controls and protocols if the risk assessment team gives a green light.
> This is close to how it feels when I get a "migraine flash". 2 differences - letters you're not looking at directly (a line or 2 down the page) don't move or jump.

This could be a freaky/fun thing to do as a VR demo.

Or one of the eye tracking kits.
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In some multiplayer games just playing them hurts other people up to the point where they experience something very similar to a mental breakdown, all because you're on their team and you're performing poorly.

It all comes down to the emotion management. My countrymen - and by extension me - have been called thieves and equated to animals countless times. My race has been blamed for all the evils in the world. Yet, I don't care - none of this has any potential to hurt me, it's just words on the internet and I'd rather follow the famous mantra of Tyler The Creator than pretend I'm being hurt somehow.
" The proper way is: you flip a coin, if it comes up heads, you say the truth, otherwise you say whatever you want."

Saying "whatever you want" will incur a very large sampling error, especially as the population of those saying whatever increases.

What is needed is a notion of scalable privacy, where as the population of those saying "whatever" increases the privacy strength also increases yet the absolute error remains at worst constant.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01884