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> conclusion is that there is something definitely wrong with the way some movies are rated. I'm not sure if there exists a fix for that, apart from us, the "normal" viewers, just starting to ignore reviews and movie-critics and then watching movies with no preconceptions.

That seems like a big takeaway from one false negative. And I agree on Booty Call, I've long put it as one of my funniest movies from the 90's. That's said I didn't watch it in the theater and if the wife and I had gone I'm not sure she would have called it a good 30-40 bucks.

There are probably 3 issues here, critic blind spots (because the median critic is probably over 40 and has some cultural lenses that are hard to shake), the lack of information you can convey with one bit of data (which is an overall goodness bit not a "funniness" bit for comedies), and perhaps the sample size (this movie has only 12 reviews on RT and half are from no-names, more reviews might not change this score though it matters for some others).

FWIW Roger Ebert loved Booty Call and gave it 3 stars so, going beyond the one bit of fresh/rotten, it can lead you to critics that like movies you do and you can follow those personally.

And RT does pretty good at giving you good movies in general - their best comedies of the 90's rightly include Toy Story 1 & 2, Groundhog Day and The Player all of which are purchase worthy.
People are bidding to be included in the Bitcoin economy of the future. Whether such a future exists is the speculative part.
Critics in general are bad signals.

It's like how HN and /r/programming users brag by hating on things that are popular and loving the esoteric such that they peacock to the other neckbeards about how refined their tastes are. Ugh, DAE hate Javascript?

I prefer IMDB user ratings and Metacritic's user ratings, basically the opinions of the unwashed masses who can at least tell you if a movie is actually enjoyable.
Have you read ‘Snow Crash?’
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The ever shrinking % of people who can viably trade labor for wages will have to count on a robot army to cleanse the world of undesirables. Either that or you pay people to dig holes and fill them back in for moral value?
> They don't spend more money for fun. They do it because they've had experiences of many on-a-weekend projects become critical-path nightmares.

yet strangely these sorts of straw-man organizations adamantly refuse to open source any such projects even if they have nothing to do with their business because of the perceived loss of intellectual property value..
Why bother with check fraud that can get you in trouble, when people will give you millions willingly on crowdfuding website for 3D renderings?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1041610927/znaps-the-9-...

$ 2,438,203

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ritot-the-first-projectio...

$1,401,510

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shiftwear-customize-your-...

$925,952

And you're not even obligated to fulfil anything, just demonstrate you've "tried" enough!
Have you checked whether any of your customers are connected to VCs? Enough of ours are that in our seed, A, and B diligence they found folks to talk about us that I didn't point them to.

Re: selling vs raising, I would say it really depends on your fire to change the vertical market you're talking about (or more).

The other thing I've seen (in both directions) is that if you get hooked up to a few CEOs, they can make introductions for you. Can you introduce customers to any CEOs that don't compete that have great investors that you'd like to talk to? Get most CEOs I know a solid $100k+ ARR customer into and they'll listen to your story and make intros if I think appropriate.

It is a disadvantage to not be in an investor-dense area, and travel costs money. I moved to SF to start Kentik, but I think the same principles would work if I had stayed in Philadelphia.

Good luck!
"Bankers talk about “governance”, ways to ensure private banks and central bankers make sound decisions—so they create just enough money make commerce easier, but not so much that the system collapses through inflation or panics."

Many people don't know that central bankers literally, not figuratively, mean CREATE money out of nothing.
They may be referencing the Summer of Love (1967) and the Free Love movement which was, if I had to put dates to it, 1966 to 1972.

During those times there were lots of people having lots of sex. Unwashed sex with a string scent of sandalwood and patchouli, but still lots of sex, drugs, and rock n roll.

Then you had the disco era, fueled by fruity drinks and cocaine, sideburns, and lots of finger guns. There was still a bunch of sex. Those people would become yuppies, while many of the Free Love people would have moved into the woods to eat tree bark and become one with Gaia.
>> using online interface to transfer ...

I see where you went wrong there. Have them disallow internet access to your accounts. Easy for you, easy for hacking.
Figma is using it (though I'm not sure how much money they're making at this point): https://blog.figma.com/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3...
"Why escape my life when I can make my lived world better?"

Some people could really enjoy escaping their lived world. Imagine if the costs on VR came down enough so that a person living in a slum in Calcutta or Rio de Janeiro or Chicago could walk through the Taj Mahal, or Petra, or sit in a Harvard University lecture hall? What if they could just make the smell go away for an hour?

It would greatly improve the quality of their life even without solving the much tougher challenge of getting them out of poverty.

Considered expansively enough, virtual reality for all five senses could be a substitute for almost any consumption experience. People could eat protein paste and have it taste like filet mignon. They could walk between the same two rooms in their house but feel like they were in Versailles. VR could massively reduce the global demand for energy and materials.
Because strangely, it's really expensive to audit your code, it's really expensive to get sued if you flub it, it's expensive to replace all the bits you can't opensource and it buys you approximately nothing in return except a comment on Hacker News accusing you of some ulterior motive.
Owner of economist: crypto jew same owner of central banks.
Writer of article: jew
Thread op: jew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Group
Yellow pages (or rather white pages for individuals) seemed sinister in that unless you opted out, your address and phone number iirc were listed by default.

Actually that's kind of like what these social networks still do today isn't it?
Bitcoin is a commodity for efficient bartering that has a governance structure to ensure that the commodity doesn't flood the market and crash prices.

It will become a currency when it can be directly used to satisfy a tax debt, to avoid the punitive threat of the law.
Hey Paul!
Kickstarter is at least trying to avoid that:

https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use?ref=footer#section4

A $10 rendering is a good test of that though. Most people aren't going to work very hard to get $10 back.
When did that happen? When I was living in the bay area, I'd visit every few months, and they always had scheduled demos of some of the big equipment. Hell, you could see the Babbage engine running every weekend.

But, they also had a working PDP-1 with Space War that you could play, demonstrated and described by some of the people who'd built some of the original software and the game itself.

Admittedly, most of the equipment was display-only, but I think that's reasonabe...given the cost and effort to restore even one such device of that complexity, in an era when parts have to be scavenged from NOS or from donor machines or built from scratch using spotty design docs, it's entirely reasonable to focus on the devices that are either of notable significance (the first of a thing, or whatever), or things that the most expertise is readily available for (a lot of the docents and people who work/volunteer at CHM are computing pioneers, usually with a history of working with specific devices).

I love CHM, and think they do a great job, and have always really enjoyed my visits. I used to drag every visitor I had out to the CHM even if they had no interest in computers. Most people still enjoyed it. There's something wonderful about seeing the scale and intricacy of early computers.
But it wasn't unpalatable at Google, MS, Apple and many other large companies.
apparently concern trolling really can change the world!
Interesting. What about mother-to-baby transmission?
And in some cases, the bewildering array of options makes the decision difficult.

I don't even know if the X is actually better than the 8 for me, let alone whether it's worth the price premium. Things have really gone sideways with the X, because there's no longer an obvious best. The X is worse than the 8 in important ways, like no Touch ID and no home button. It's better in other ways. Which one wins? I don't know.

Back to the topic of things that wouldn't have happened under Steve, pre-Steve Apple had a vast and baffling Mac lineup. Steve eventually simplified it down to four basic offerings, one for each combination of (cheap, pro) and (desktop, portable). iPhones were even simpler. You lose out on choice, but you win on simplicity. Steve much preferred the simplicity of fewer choices. I don't mind having choices now, but it may very well end up costing Apple a sale this time: the more I waffle between the 8 and the X, the more likely I'll just decide to keep my 6+ for another year.
Can someone explain to me why this is better? Can't Facebook now sue anyone for using their patents?
So to be clear, when someone calls an easily supported public fact a "conspiracy theory" to dismiss it, "stupid" should be applied to them, not to the so-called conspiracy theory.
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and at the same time you are ready to receive live updates while eating dinner/taking nr2/attending funeral. You are conceding control over your time(life) to some third party.
In other words, besides the massive obvious difference between the two models, they also have another difference?

(And just to be complete, battery life is different too.)
I thought Wonder Woman was alright. Something about it felt a little "off" to me. It is hard to put my finger on it. Maybe they tried to compress too much plot into the time. I don't know. It was definitely more fun to watch than many of the recent superhero goo moves. Perhaps it was th caricature Germans. On the plus side they did WWI which is as overdone in modern cinema.

Netflix's Marvel shows are interesting too, especially Like Cage. But those aren't movies :)
i hope you're willing to say what the problem is, rather than simply name-calling.
I'm old enough that I can remember smoking in movies, at the grocery store, at work (in an office and in elevators!), on buses and in planes. I lived through the systematic implementation of restrictions on where and when one could smoke. The gradual increase of shaming comments from random strangers was also unpleasant.

I quit smoking last winter right before an ambulance ride to the hospital and heart surgery. (Heart surgery is no fun, thanks for asking.) I smoked and quit and smoked again and quit again many times. The last time I quit (before this time), it lasted over nine years. Then I picked it up again during a very stressful time at work.

Frankly, I miss smoking. I don't miss the health effects, but I miss everything else about it. I can't say I won't smoke again. I've said that too many times to believe it.

And I miss smokers, mostly. They are a friendly bunch.

I remember times scrambling around airports looking for a place to smoke. Most are outside, and many are situated such that you end up having to go back through TSA screening again just to have a butt before getting on a flight. I wish I'd known about this site back then.
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The defaults ensure that websites that do absolutely nothing to specifically accommodate the iPhone X work just as they did before.
First, I'm happy to see you're on your journey to self awareness. Second, accept your condition, enjoying attention is a human condition. You are human! Now keep asking questions. What kind of person would you like to stay/become next?
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Bitcoin has no flexibility as a currency. It cannot be manipulated to stimulate or slow an economy. The growth rate of bitcoin is so slow that it ensures that the population growth will probably always outstrip bitcoin growth, severely lowering the number of bitcoins available per capita, leading to permanent rentiers of the money supply. Also, as lost bitcoin are not replaced, the supply dwindles further. At some point the pace of losing bitcoins will out strip the rate of bitcoin creation.

This is not a how a society's currency should work.
I have read it, and I also have worked with educators in the US, France, and Eastern Europe. While there are plenty of things done wrong, the claim that a modern school hasn't produced a well-rounded individual is ridiculous. Yes, there is way too much focus on standardized tests, but there are also many schools that do a great job at creating stellar pupils. Regrettably, this is usually available only in affluent areas (and even then it is not universal).
$14-50 is not private jet/private yacht type of lifestyles... you can rent/ride in one sure. But owning one is another story.
I really like how they're routing around a dysfunctional government that is barely functioning. Compared to Detroit that surrounds it Highland Park is the wild, wild west.
I would say not equating Chinese and US surveillance is rather dangerous. Not the extent but the capability and willingness (and track record?), clearly exhibited by instances that they can and they will. They both surveil their own citizens and of course citizens of other country's. Or maybe because USA is better at it? Doing it and getting away with it most of the time?

Besides "largely" the keyword here as an artificial differentiation only leads to some kind of general denial (by its own citizens) that works in the favour of USA's surveillance machinery.
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I think this is generally the case for tech companies in the United States and for startups around the world. Personally, I can't name a single tech company where interviewees are expected to wear suits to interviews. If there are any such bona fide tech companies (versus companies with tech teams), I imagine they're older corporations.
It's also been possible since Javascript.
It’s an email. I get to choose when to read it and whether to click the link and respond!
That is to say; not well. But considerably better than Bitcoin.
> If Mark detected developer sentiment shifting, he can move just as fast as he wants to stanch the bleeding.

how is react's popularity at all material to facebook's interests? at best it means you get more outside contributions, but you already have plenty of talent internally.
Don't they have vasectomy already?
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> Critics in general are bad signals.

Critics may be bad signals when conditioned on the things that you individually prefer. this is hardly an objective measure.

Your preference for user ratings could also be biased towards the kind of things that you enjoy about movies, which may align more with non-critics, while at the same time my preference for (aggregrated) critic ratings could be biased towards the things i enjoy about movies, which might align more with critics; those two sets of things might not exactly be the same. (i.e. there could be tribes that rate enjoyableness differently)

Lastly, there is this [1], which is tangential to your claim but worth considering what a good distribution of ratings should look like. Now even though the analysis isn't perfect, it's still interesting that _if_ the assumptions of the analysis were true, metacritic has the most well-behaved distribution.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108071
It's funny a guy working for a Print medium being linked via digital has any grounding to talking about what is killing what. Bro, you're re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Film is changing at the pace of technology, and Rotten Tomatoes will have its time and then the next generation will go elsewhere.

You know, because IMDB and its comment section totally killed the movie industry. Wait, scratch that. It didn't. It turned into a cesspool and life moved on. Or, as Dr. Malcom might put it, "life, uh, finds a way."
I am so excited about this news and even register a hacker news account to appreciate FB's behavior.
Oh that's certainly a good point and a deficiency in my design.

But then again if you're only testing H against A's vendored dependencies specifically, you're missing testing it against B's. I'm not sure how you would fix that.
Honestly, I didn't face that issue till now.
Yeah but a huge amount of his wealth is bound to that responsibility.
Geographic Mobility Leads to Upward Mobility
There are loads of problems with that. I agree, in principle, but I'll give you an example of a problem that already is happening.

Not every drug you take is limited to impacting just you. A good example is antibiotics. We are having serious issues with drug-resistant bacteria. Allowing people to just take antibiotics of their own free will is absolutely certain to increase the number of drug-resistant bacteria. This will, with absolute certainty, result in an increase people being killed through no fault of their own.

Could this be prevented? Nope. One might say people could be educated and that they'd make the right choices, but the very idea of that is farcical. The planet is not populated with people who make bright choices and exhibit a propensity for long-term thinking.

I very much believe in allowing autonomy over self, and I've strongly supported these ideals. However, that has to have limits in a functioning society. As much as I'd like to say we should be able to take all the drugs, there is a need to draw some lines. We can move those lines, and I think we should, but eliminating them entirely is absolutely certain to harm innocent people at a level I am unwilling to support.
Strangely, 20 years ago very few people thought that their name in the phone book was a privacy concern. A few people got unlisted numbers but that was generally because they were public figures to one degree or another and wanted to avoid nuisance calls.
> "I have a common but chronic ailment so all I had to do was [tech] the [tech] to the [tech] and [tech]"

Fun fact: A lot of the original Star Trek screenplays were written with [tech] everywhere and the science writers came in and tried to right some jargon that was believable.

In regards to health care, it's a mess. I spent years working in the industry and it's truly a little frightening. I've been in other country's systems before and recently put together a writeup on it:

http://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-t...
> Probably because they have no patents that cover the concepts these libraries introduce.

Apache 2.0 certainly doesn't require you to have patents in order to use it ("applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s)")
Thank you for the interesting video. The problem I refer to in the Godot pathfinder is not a case of premature optimisation; it's not (as discussed at 16:10 in your video) code whose performance is negligible in the overall scheme of things. It's the exact opposite.

A bad pathfinder will make it near impossible to develop certain types of games -- RTS games or any other kind of game where the map is of a non trivial size and there are agents making their way between changing pairs of locations. In addition, pathfinding is usually a fundamental operation in most of what passes for AI in games and it's not uncommon to see developers calling the pathfinder constantly, for example to reason about distances between things.
Me too. I skip all the comic book movies.
https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/blob/master/PATENT...
I run and maintain a massive GitHub Enterprise installation. Features that make their appearance on .com end up in Enterprise about 3-4 months later. In an enterprise environment, I'm totally fine with GitHub testing those new features on their 15 million .com users first.
This is a big misunderstanding of bitcoin, and if you believe it I can understand why you might think bitcoin is not special.

The truth is that the everyday user gets full control over the law of their currency simply by running a full node. Your node will reject any transactions that do not comply with the rules of your node.

The soveirgnty of bitcoin comes from knowing that the devs can't force an update upon you or the network, if you do not consent you can always reject the change.
Again, its the same lens of time, there were 2-3 times as many forgettable dramas, romantic comedies, historical pictures, and lets not even start on westerns - they're not even part of our collective memories anymore. Consider that in 1939, there were something like two movies a week released - and 1939 was a banner year for quality too in all honesty - but still only 2-3 have survived in popular memory, and only 10% of the total production was considered notable.

Chaplin was genius, so was Lloyd, so was Keton, they all produced moves of unbelievable quality, but how many of those three are known by people outside the film industry or film historians today?
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You forgot about effort and risk.
SoundPlay on BeOS. It could play MP3s backwards (!) and load any Winamp skin. Big deal at the time.
I play an online game (Overwatch) and I can tell the difference between a 20ms ping and a 40ms one, so I’m not surprised that an extremely proficient musician with a lifetime of practice can tell a difference of a few miliseconds.

In high school physics we were doing some experiments around pendulums and used metronomes to measure the period; I remember the teacher telling us about a former student of hers, a concert level musician, who could keep a beat in perfect timing without using a metronome at all.
Robin Murray is a pretty well-respected psychiatric researcher. This was interesting for me to read.
How? Bitcoin is a commodity, how can you deny that?
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that plain images aren't that compelling. I'll work on a more dynamic demonstration.
As the old saying goes, you will eventually run into someone who doesn't give a fuck who or how powerful you are. Meet your Daddy, Facebook. He is called Automattic. :-)

As for people who think the exodus out of React was "imaginary" - I wish FB had actually completely dropped the ball and stayed with the old license. That would have forced Automattic to not merely drop React, but also anoint a competitor which would have probably overtaken React in no time.
PyTorch itself isnt, But the multi-GPU version requires Gloo which is BSD+PATENTS

https://github.com/facebookincubator/gloo/blob/master/PATENT...
I'm not sure what you mean - which page?
its worth noting that the fork wasn't actually because of a bug in Ethereum, but because of a bug in a smart contract (the DAO). Ethereum itself worked perfectly. Bugs do exist in Ethereum and Bitcoin all the time, but they can almost always be fixed without changing the underlying protocol, so the clients just need updated.

The fork happened because the community decided the smart contract in question was important enough to the survival of Ethereum that it'd be worth essentially backing out the contract (in a roundabout way)
I've been twice, and they had nothing of note that was interactive when I visited.