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I think you're right, in that there is nothing wrong with it. But, I believe their goal is to keep it free as in beer and free as in speech. Noble goals, indeed.
Yes, my political views aligned with some 0.2% of this year's turnout (parliamentary election).
When I was depressed I had perfect trust in my ability to predict events, it was just that no matter how much I tried I couldn't predict a future where I weren't constantly in agony. I got over it by letting go of most things that were hurting me like friends, family, dreams etc. So now I live a fairly unassuming life but I am content. It might sound a bit boring but it is much better than living in agony every day for the rest of your life.
> the half-life of depression is only a few weeks

Are you referring to a single major depressive episode? And presumably not referring to the various other depressive disorders that last months to years?

FWIW, this one of many things that makes treating "depression" challenging - there are many different forms of depression, and not infrequently the underlying pathology is quite different.
And yet no mention of whether or not anyone is expected to feel fulfilled in life...

Just "Hey buddy, what's up with your neurology, dog? Bro, what's with your nerves all being on a downer and shit? The function output you're charting on this graph is WHACK! We gotta fix that. Totally gotta be your attitude, turn that frown upside down!"

It's pretty tone deaf to read this article and imagine that they're trying to march along to the beat of depression. ...and then to think about someone like this trying to "fix" someone else. ∗∗∗ shudder ∗∗∗

Nevermind legitimate, permanent lasting memories of suffering the reality of one or more tragedies. Nevermind getting lost in the modern labyrinth of industrialized society, where past a certain age, if you've not stayed ahead of the game, you're left as an isolated ghost, and a stranger to everyone you haven't burned or been burned by.

True friends stop appearing after a certain age, and once you drift apart from the peers of your authentic, formative youth, it's extremely rare and difficult to invest honest childhood trust in anyone ever again. This isn't some synaptic chemical thing. Getting old sucks, and lots of people hate the way their lives turn out. I'd hazard a bet that fact is true for the majority of all people, who simply spend the rest of their adulthood coping with the bleakness of existence.

But, hey, maybe I'm "mentally ill."
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I feel that this explanation is more of an excuse than anything else.

Of course, they will find it hard to accept that Edge is not getting general user acceptance as much as they had hoped.

And that, as a result, they aren't able to get developers interested in their platform.
That people who want to pursue a career in politics know that a career in law or being very rich is helpful?

Did you know 70% of programmers have a degree in computer science?
Many have suggested Python, but why not VBA? It is sitting in your PC already assuming you use Windows.
AFAICT, your point basically assumes all Abrahamic religions are false (i.e., there's no afterlife). Debating that is out of scope here, but it would suggest we don't all agree that there's no feeling after death.
Time.
It takes time.
There is a lot of quackery out there. Theoretical physicists deal with quacks all the time.
If you are interested in the problem, then only flaws in the logic are red flags.

If you are not interested in the problem, why did you click the link?

Disclaimer, I am not interested in the problem (but a bit interested in how the link get to the top here).
Definitely helps, thanks. Would you advise starting by documenting processes in the entire business end-end, or would you focus on a particular segment first (e.g shipping, warehousing, order management etc), solving problems in that segment to full completion before even considering processes in other areas?
Merci pour le taff! fallait prendre la thune ;)

Thanks for your work, you should have taken the money ;)

Seriously it just means that your work is that valuable.
> Everett, who believed his theory guaranteed him immortality in some world or other, had eaten, drunk and chain-smoked himself to an early death in 1982.

Sure, in this world, but in others he parties on.
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For 99% of folks outside the HN echo chamber, email works fine. Spam is a problem, but I've never heard or read of anyone who thinks email needs to go the way of the dodo except on this site.
I don't know why W2 is so common over there, but you should be hitting up LinkedIn and reaching out to recruiters that way. There are plenty of 1099 opportunities to be found. Ensure that you get contracts with fixed time periods so that you can plan your cash flow a little easier. (It's not a hard and fast guarantee, but a six-month contract is much easier to plan around than some flexible contract scenario where the client can fire you at literally a moment's notice.)

Also, $100/hr for 1099 is really low for your experience. You'll get work easily, but will need to work literally all of the time to make ends meet. You should aim for at least $240/hour.

Think about it like this. Your experience would probably net you a $175-200k/year salary in the Bay Area. That's the money you take home (before taxes). This does not include offset compensation (equity, bonuses, VACATION) and benefits (401(k) with match, health insurance (medical, dental, sometimes vision, HSA, FSA, etc.), commuting discounts, etc.). I don't know the exact numbers, but after factoring all of this in, I would wager that the company is actually paying $500k/year for your services in the W2 scenario. That's ~$240/hour assuming a 52-week business year at 40 hours/week.

Additionally, your experience makes you a premium product depending on how you sell yourself. If the talent pool for one of the languages that you know (say, Delphi) is dying but is still used for critical business functions that make companies serious amounts of money, you can increase the margin on your rate even more. 20 years of experience is a lot.

Lastly, for the businesses that you're probably trying to go after (big institutions with beefy IT budgets), trying to sell yourself short will actually make you appear to be less experienced than you really are. These businesses are used to paying top-dollar for quality and/or insurance, so you should play the game in kind.

TL;DR: Pay for LinkedIn; use competing salaries PLUS BENEFITS to calculate your rate; add some margin to the top; get the fuck out of the rat race.
We've had that in argentina, in all billboards and magazine ads, for a while, but you need an electron microscope to read the warning.
Exactly. Median income in Norway is scary low, especially for single-person households.

https://www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-og-forbruk/nokkeltall
On the other hand, the unthreaded approach can help keep the discussion focused and tight. There are few things worse than setting out to get some work done and having to wade through a bunch of comments to find the meat. In the age of Bugzilla, if you wanted to discuss something related, you'd open up a new bug. You'd string things together with a tracking (meta) bug if you liked. This Bugzilla-style workflow, however, doesn't accommodate the stuff that you wouldn't feel you should open a bug for. That's a feature.

Like so many other things, though, this only works if you enforce it. It's pretty horrifying what the GitHub generation tends to think passes for acceptable on bugtrackers, for example.
> Are you referring to a single major depressive episode?

Yeah if you read Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker has a good research review of all the large scale NIMH/NIH studies.
I must agree with you both, he is the master manipulator with over the top promises and bunch of losing businesses, the modern wolf of wall street...
I use Edge for my everyday browsing. It is definitely faster than Firefox and it is less evil than Chrome.

My experience is that Firefox and Chrome performance really fall off a cliff once you start installing extensions.
Paypal is two clicks now. Click buy on the site you are buying from, PayPal loads and logs you in automatically, confirm the amount and click pay.
You've learned this level of programming in 2 months? Wow! Very impressive. Good job.
Exactly (saying this as a FF user since Mosaic times and writing in FF). There was money, millions of it, and it attracted many people who captured the browser, sidelined it, spent the money on their ideological pet projects (OS, ...) and then moved on, leaving the browser behind.

After decades of FF I will soon abandon it when it no longer runs vertical tree tabs.
VLC is awesome! :D I use the iOS and macOS versions often. Thank you^10.
The implication of this article is that agencies would be obligated to use what the article calls "more obtainable" bodies. Is this actually the case? I think it's vastly more likely that this will do little more than sharply increase the demand for people that actually have the bodies that other individuals were being photoshopped to have.

It'd be like if a country banned all voice processing software when singing (which has become ubiquitous today). It's not like studios would simply begin accepting people with less than ideal singing voices. Instead they would actually have to seek out talent that can sing without having their voice filtered through digital signal processing software. And in the end, I think this would (and will) be a good thing. Authenticity should be encouraged and incentivized.
The Firefox team killed the ready to go Filesystem api, which could have also nicely standardized.

Never forgive, never forget.
In the United States, Obesity is one of the leading causes of death, with estimates as high as 300,000 deaths/year.

(See https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html )

Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year

(See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012 )

Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese.

It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poisonous snake bites and spending 15 minutes on automobile safety.
Prison will be unfortunate, but it's the felony record that will really end his professional life.
How is that? How does tackling one prevent tackling the other? Or even trade off from it?
This would be so great as some kind of Gimp filter plugin
Cool! Google Drive integration on iOS stopped working. Other than that, works awesome.
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This is one of the things that web-based forums have yet to get right. Email (and NNTP news) clients from 20 or 30 years ago are far superior in this respect, because they can intelligently deal with threading and folding. These features alone makes large conversations much easier to deal with than on web-forums.

To add to that, email (and NNTP news) clients even from 20 or 30 years ago have other powerful features that web forums have yet to catch up on:

- kill files[1] (which you can use to filter out unwanted articles/mails based on content or metadata such as subject, user, etc)

- scoring

- user-configurable anti-spam filtering or other "intelligent" filtering (such as bayesian filtering not just for spam/ham, but for interesting/unintersting content)

- tagging not just on a site-wide level but at the client level so each user can tag messages/articles the way they make sense to them

- other advanced filtering and scripting based on any of the above

Web-based forums are just incredibly primitive compared to this many-decade-old technology.

[1] - https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Kill_file
Daniel Hillis wrote a nice paper on machine-learned sorting networks decades ago. I think they were for fixed-size inputs, but the good news is that you can validate them using a 0-1 principle.
Mainly used in HFT, but I believe Cloudflare use them.
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Yes let's create another clearly delineated group: junior devs vs senior devs, liberal vs conservative and so on. There are plenty of senior devs who would do the same thing.

The article wouldn't be that bad if it was titled "make an effort to understand before you are blindly copying from "Stack overflow".

Maybe the whole industry would do well learning the basics of coding.
Dotcom bubble and Cryptocurrencies bubble
You can absolutely use a consensus model with cycle counting. The cycle count for x86 instructions (ignoring unpredictable factors like cache misses) is well-defined on all the modern architectures, you can find tables of the latencies and everything. There's no reason you couldn't do this instead of gas (though I don't know if I would argue that you should)
This law should be good for the careers of models who actually are nearly perfect looking.
The ambiguity was intentional, Lebanon would probably fit just as well - the point being is that this is a world-wide trend that is exploited by any government that can take advantage of it.
Probably, but this article specifically addresses the decline of secular education and use of religious indoctrination as means of fostering a more easily governable generation and the preemption of religion by the state.
Democracy is a voting system too :D
Greed I can understand, the seeming insanity I can't. I'm not sure how many times I've seen stuff like, "They can't stop me!" That's pretty crazy, because it's well known that they can, and will, stop someone who gets their negative attention. They may not be able to fully prevent an activity, but they sure as hell can stop a person.

Maybe the greed makes them insane? I dunno, psychiatry is not really my domain. I find it curious behavior.
I wouldn't call it quackery. It's mad people doing proofs that sound good in their heads.

Or sometimes naive people doing the same.
I would love to join a team and participate
The reasons it did not work were obvious when they announced it however.

It was never going to work, and didn’t. Should never had a cent spent on it.
> any commercial image that has been digitally altered to make a model look thinner

This will backfire. Ads will only use ultra-thin models, it's not like there aren't.
I don't think we are really talking past each other. To me this an issue of self-determination as well. I lived in a small town completely lacking employment opportunities for 10 years. The kids who were able to move out got careers, those who couldn't are stuck working in the service industry. With a little government assistance, they could move to where the careers are.

I regret the blunt, clinical way I communicated this in my original post.
If you want to get quick feedback, posting a video is not the way to do it. I look at about 200 articles a day and watching one video could blow my whole budget for looking at articles.
We focus on the value for the customer and providing manufacturers with a platform that enables grocery shopping experience at significantly lower prices.
They're buying the brand. People know and trust the VLC brand so they'll have an audience for a while before the forked project replaces them in the hearts and minds of the community. The new project will be less trusted because users were betrayed by the old one.

If you actually care about the openness of the project, selling it is a bad idea regardless of forkability.
I'm sympathetic to your point, but there are effects other than death. Low self esteem has its own problems.
>Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese.

Probably because that offends/annoys more people (300,000 over 150 times more) than warning about anorexia.
> Well it's not a secret, but it's not obvious for most teenagers.

Fair enough but the list of things that can harm a teen's self esteem is endless. So in a way there is no way around learning how to deal with issues of imperfection on a personal level. And this, in turn, makes you wonder whether you couldn't spend the money that goes into this project more worthwhile. For instance, you could invest it in free sport programs. That way teens wouldn't just improve their body image but also do something for their health.

IMHO these kind of initiatives are mostly egotrips of people who want to make their mark.
Thank you for a great product. Applauds your principles.
Couldn't get past the first level. What am i supposed to do? What's the puzzle? Seemed like a dead end to me, all the doors had numbers greater than my length. How am I supposed to increase my length?
Of course she is photoshopped. All photos you see in magazines are by default heavily photoshopped, even of "flawless" models. You literally don't see a single photo straight out of the camera where retouching wasn't applied when it comes to women.
Lets see how much of that money doesn't "vanish" by this time next year.
Really? I thought they switched to Google Wave long ago...
Greeble actually is very fun to play. Play it again.
> If a scientific poll of Uber employees were taken today they would probably elect him CEO.

My guesss is that there’s a lot of self-selection that’s happened through the Uber ranks. Employees who weren’t TK loyalists have probably largely opted out of Uber and moved on. So I’m guessing that first sentence is indeed accurate.
As an alternative you could write your smart contracts with NEO in C#, F#, Java or Kotlin http://docs.neo.org/en-us/sc/introduction.html
Same reason the photo app/features of instagram and snapchat took off, makes people look really good or even better than they expect themselves with filters etc.
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No. I take issue with the definition of "any alcohol => no ability to consent" but Stanford's definition is pretty clear: there is a point past which you are too drunk to consent. Like, if I found you passed out in a bar bathroom and started fucking you, you wouldn't be able to consent, right? But if you had a beer and said "let's go to my place", you obviously can. There is no law or definition that says "any alcohol automatically means no ability to consent."
Intentional or ironic?
As a French person: stop subsidizing corn, start subsidizing vegetables, stop eating take-out.

If you look at a middle-class supermarket in France and in the US you understand why your poor are obese pretty quickly.
I'm not willing to "give them a break" if they ignored decades of existing academic research and production software to roll their own low-quality packages that actively cost users money through bugs and footguns. Ethereum is not breaking new ground all over the place to the extent that would justify overlooking quality issues, even if it's the first to do particular things.

I'm sure the Ethereum ecosystem as a whole contains some clever designs or even good engineering by the people who back it, but that doesn't excuse the fact that they overestimated their competence and their customers are paying for it. It's not "more complex and sophisticated than I'm giving it credit for": I'm giving it "credit" for being too complex and too sophisticated, creating a huge attack surface for security vulnerabilities and lots of space for bugs to dwell because the developers insisted on NIHing things they had no reason to.

Complex and Sophisticated is not a good thing in mission-critical software. You want code that is as simple as possible, does the job correctly, and is easy to understand and audit. Complex and Sophisticated is what you write when tackling an incredibly difficult problem or when you're trying to get a promotion.

You seem to be confusing the (no personal opinion on this statement) "fantastic and successful" nature of the Ethereum platform with its quality. There's no intrinsic correspondence between success and quality. JavaScript is wildly successful and the experience of using it in 2017 is (thanks to modern tooling and browsers) pretty good, some people might even call it fantastic. But that doesn't erase the long history of defects in the language, defects that people continue to pay for. People invested sweat and blood to turn it into a successful thing.

Likewise, sweat and blood is being invested to compensate for Ethereum's numerous deficiencies. Some of those investments were made by the Ethereum developers - props to them - but a lot of that cost is being paid by end users, security researchers, and investors.

Tony Hoare calls nulls his 'billion dollar mistake'. How much do you think the cost of Ethereum's numerous design and engineering errors will add up to when all is said and done?
You won't, because they have no understanding of how anything truly works. Cash in hand is unhackable, almost entirely untraceable, and works when there is no power.

20:1 the Bitcoin people would propose some sort of buffered/delayed transaction solution. Of course that wouldn't work as there's no way of telling when you'd have restored power or connectivity. Puerto Rico is looking to have nothing for several weeks if not longer, much like the Ice Storm of 1994 in Western Tennessee.
How did you let go? I've tried things like meditation, but it always feels like things keep coming back.
Good, now if only they would do the same for male models who use illegal performance enhancing drugs to achieve their physiques. According to many male fitness models, anyone who earns money based on their body is almost guaranteed to be using them.

I find it really strange how the topic of "enhanced" male models never comes up, but these articles about women pop up several times a year.
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> then only flaws in the logic are red flags.

Sure, but the mathematics community knows that some red flags like the ones I pointed out, have an extremely high correlation rate with a wrong proof.

That's not enough to claim correctness or wrongness, and that's why I just spoke of "red flags".

> If you are not interested in the problem, why did you click the link?

I am very interested in the problem. However I am not interested in a thorough verification of the proof, which would take days.

Exactly as I am interested in some software projects, but I am not interested in performing a complete audit of their source code.
If you are ignoring cache misses, and using a particular CPU architecture instead of whatever is actually running, then you're back to using gas. You still have a fixed list of costs for different operations, it's just a different list.

But CPU cycles aren't actually a sufficient cost model, since you also have to pay for storage.
That's why he calls it a paradox. IIRC Popper mentions it in the context of the also relevant democratic paradox (a democracy abolishing itself by democratic process).
Actually those infrared grid things are famous for not working in bright sunlight. For instance, the Microsoft Kinect does poorly in a brightly lit room.

It might be that the iPhone X camera is working at closer range and the geometry is more favorable for it, but systems that use any kind of light projector do worse in bright sun.
>The implication of this article is that agencies would be obligated to use what the article calls "more obtainable" bodies. Is this actually the case? I think it's vastly more likely that this will do little more than sharply increase the demand for people that actually have the bodies that other individuals were being photoshopped to have.

You could always insist that the distribution of bodies shown in a magazine follows the distribution of weights/heights in the general population (with some margin of error). And heavily fine them out of business when it does not. Problem solved.

(The voice processing ban example doesn't capture the problem with body photos, because people don't go out of their way to sound like their favorite singers -- auto-tuned or not--, nor does it have many adverse psychological or health effects to have singers voices be unattainable to most people. Whereas body image from ad/fashion/etc models influences the self-perception of billions of people, and leads a multiple-100s billion dollars industry).
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