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The bigger and more dense the city, the more hostile and private the neighbors.

I take packages for all my 10 neighbors, they are happy with it, but we live in a civilised city and all our delivery drivers are extremely competent and nice
"Truck reverses into stationary object" is not really news.

I think there are too many possible risks of programming the vehicle to do anything except stop dead in an emergency situation - you rapidly get into very complex programming with all kinds of failure modes - e.g. what if the problem was a faulty sensor? The vehicle might try to avoid a non-existent threat by crashing into something else. Stopping is the safe thing to do. If you want to react, you rapidly have to make lots of moral decisions like (The Trolley Problem).

Briefly sounding a horn in an unexpected emergency stop situation is probably a good idea, particularly if it's a white noise type thing, rather than a siren, so that other road users can localise it's source quickly.
Here’s the interesting pattern I’ve noticed. The promises are almost always issued from someone not on the board and not a major shareholder. If the person delivering the news doesn’t have the power to back up the claims then good luck getting them to honor them.

The moment they have a VP telling you everything is going to be great you need to start hedging your bets. Update your resume. Catch up with your contacts. And for the love of Pete, don’t make any major purchases.
I've found that the inverse is true. If you are polite, Royal Mail will ignore you. If you call them thieving bastards, you'll have your refund sorted by the end of the day.
>The axiom that Liu put forward was not about some inherently expansionist nature of intelligent life

Huh? All the other stuff you said is perfectly true, but in addition to that, there's an axiom in his book explicitly stating that "civilization continuously grows and expands."
Link for convenience: http://www.bretnor.com/BugGetter.html
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I honestly don't think you're right.

Do you have an example?
This is a very good point. In all the companies I've worked in we've had more UPS outages than line outages as well.
This seems like a misleading graph. The map compares income share to _area_? Wouldn't comparing to density or capita be more helpful?

I happen to know China has more population so seeing it lighter says something to me, but having a better way to compare to the number of people would be helpful.
You argument that nobody decides to have cancer is true but it applies to tons of stuff. You don't decide that your car breaks down. You don't decide that a storm is coming. You don't decide the change in import controls for goods from China. There are literally millions of things that you don't decide.

The very reason we have capitalism is that we have dynamic system that reacts to feedback and finds or at least moves the system towards a new optimal point given the new circumstances.

If there is a operation that exists free market would make that operation as cheap as possible and weather it is your decision to need the operation or not, you will still get a very cheap operation. For the market is irrelevant why the demand exists, but it will attempt to satisfy that demand and we are all better for it.

So the problem with opioids is about demand.

People should trust doctors to give sound advice regarding their opioid consumption, as they do with many other things. The majority of people don't want to be addicted and are happy to comply with measures.

There are a couple problems, first, the doctors primary earn money by selling stuff thanks to the perverse system of intensives that the modern american health care system produces.

Second, there was a actual problem where doctors in the US, by themselves started to over-issue these drugs, and they still do. That is as much a cultural problem as it is anything else. This has to change.

Third, I think its pretty clear that the distribution and demographics about this issue tell a story that is hard to explain by a general 'evil capitalist' pushing pills on people. It is clear that some communities are dis-proportionally effected and that is a more deterministic factor then the price of the pills.

Fourth, if there were actually free markets people would buy high quality product that does not kill you. People who take it might be addicts but you can be high functioning and your chances of recovery are much better then with this disgusting stuff people are forced to consume because of government regulation.
No question, just wanted to say thanks. Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. I enrolled and will have a look at it soon.
Sure it can. I grew up playing 3-man touch football. One QB, one receiver and one defender. We always called it "stars" and had an entire rule system for it, although I don't actually know whether it was an intensely local thing or whether it's something a lot of other people did too.
Essentially, it would be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xavcTEwk3VQ
Cheers to Nim. I'm learning it in my spare time for fun. However, I will not consider using it for anything more than toy projects until it hits 1.0. Hopefully soon.
In order to understand this data I'd like to see similar charts for the last 5000 years.

Has anyone of you seen similar stats for the middle- and ancient ages?
Net-net, I think Google's benefits outweigh it's issues. Economic analysis basically backs that up.

I admit I haven't run the numbers on Google, but when I looked at YouTube, requiring human minimum wage moderators to review every video would cost billions of dollars a year - more than the entire site's revenue.

So, sure, Google could drop another 200m on moderation, but I don't think that would get you to full moderation, so you still need algorithms in there somewhere.
That segment about how the fungi slime reorganized the Tokyo Subway System into a more efficient system was fascinating. Curious whether you could use this in someway to design everything from Circuit Boards to Software. One of my favorites so far.
https://www.thestar.com/business/tech_news/2008/11/27/2700ye...

Don't know if this is the latest news, but they dated this two pound bundle of weed to 2700 years ago.
> Imagine a human gets infected

Relevant SMBC comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fungus
The point of having type annotations in the spec is so that library and tooling authors can focus on providing and refining a single set of type annotations that any tool (Flow, TypeScript, anything else that comes up) can check for correctness and perform static analysis (for things like autocomplete, find references, go-to definition, etc) against. Over time, this would vastly improve the quantity and quality of available type definitions compared to what's available for either the Flow or TypeScript camp alone.

And once type annotations are part of the language proper, the possibility opens up for browsers to use type annotations to provide runtime safeguards, optimizations, and reflections, all of which would be invaluable since static checking alone is often not enough to provide correctness guarantees in all cases in JavaScript. When all is said and done, JavaScript is a dynamic language, and the ability to reuse the same type annotations for both static and dynamic checks is the piece that I'm sorely missing from both the Flow and TypeScript ecosystems so far.
When I was a student I lived in a large student apartment building. Packages were regularly delivered to whoever was walking into the door at that moment or the first doorbell to answer, if the intended recipient was not home.

Then the person who got the package posted on an internal facebook page: "I've got a package for 304 in 605" and they would be collected.

The system worked perfectly and there were a lot of packages, I guess many potentially worth a lot.
Unless they meant "smaller hosting companies [than OVH]"?
So, are they going to take the driver to court?

Sarcasm aside, who is deemed to be in control, who do you sue for the damage if this vehicle crashes in to you - isn't it the manufacturer that causes the crash (not in this case necessarily, I'm talking generally).
Writing in a fast compiled language is not premature optimization.

Premature optimization would be something that makes the code more complicated and more difficult to follow but produce better performance.

Writing the same code in a fast compiled language is just the default thing that you should be doing when you are not doing premature optimization.

Writing in a slow interpreted language is more like premature "deoptimization" (if that's a word).
>When working with another person API then typescript does become a godsend in helping understand what the bloody hell does this callback parameter are required.

Plot twist: While you are cursing at the person who wrote that API, you slowly realize that it was you all along.
My biggest beef is that I can't seem to get UPS/Fedex/USPS to just open my front porch door and leave my packages inside anymore. My philosophy is to generally never lock anything if I can help it; if somebody wants to get in and steal my (largely worthless) stuff, all a lock is going to do is mean they kick down my door and then I have to replace the stuff AND the door.

So instead I end up with packages left out in the rain, or slung in the snowbank during a blizzard that I don't find until spring comes...
By "engaging counsel", I didn't mean suing them. I meant getting professional advice regarding the situation.
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I am in France and it seems Visa Premier and Mastercard Gold with payments deferred to the end of month - with zero interest - are now considered "credit cards" (because they can be regarded as a limited form of credit, I suppose).

I have a small "CREDIT" label next to the chip of my new card and airlines (EasyJet, Ryanair...) now reject my card if I select the cheaper "Debit card" payment option.
Five-a-side is very common, tons of five-a-side pitches in the UK with people playing in leagues or more casually.
> So, ask [the people who lost billions of accounts and SSNs] how to protect against data breaches?

It's worse than that. These are the very people who profit on trading in data linked to identity information. It's like asking the fox how to secure the henhouse, after he ate all the hens.

Any new identity scheme has to be something that does not rely on security practices of any third parties. The public component of the identifier must be useless as an identifier without the private part held only by the individual.
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I hate bitter flavors and most beers and diet drinks taste awful to me but I'm no supertaster...my wife who has never been tested for it on the other hand happily eats bitter things and loves beer but can eat a dish and decompose it into constituent ingredients. She definitely has a sharper palate but I'm not sure she'd qualify either. Maybe it's something that's measured on a spectrum?
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>For example the transaction rate could double tomorrow, without increasing energy consumption.

A higher transactions rate might result in more transaction fees being paid which indirectly increases energy use.
It seems to me that being an expat in Japan is a win win with no downside, as one can enjoy everything that works within their society while avoiding all the social pressures the Japanese suffer.

We are planning a trip soon to investigate our insight.
> As far as I know there's no word for something we like too much.

There is an expression that could be relevant: Supernormal stimulus, [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
Well it's obvious you can't heat your house and earn money at the same time continuously. Bitcoin is no magic perpetuum mobile zero-point energy bending-physics solution but it's true that you can minimize the waste.

> Every dollar you spend on the most efficient mining setup will only give you one dollar worth of bitcoin plus a small profit.

That sounds just like any other investment, or am I missing something?
> Their society must have developed some sort of maturity to make war and violence obsolete

Why "must?" That just sounds like an assumption based on what you want to be true. It is just as likely that a civilization you describe exists but has the exact same type and frequency of internal squabbles that humans do.
The comment I was replying to was talking about the US.
Ey, lots of people I know in the UK in their 30's play rugby recreationally.
I'll note here that at least one "proof-of-capacity" coin already exists:

http://www.burst-coin.org/

I can't elaborate either on the merits of proof-of-capacity vs. proof-of-capacity plus proof-of-time.
A horn needs to be a horn, add a white noise generator too, but the recognised noise and the one people are "programmed" to react to is a car horn.

Aside: emergency vehicles in the UK have stopped using the broad-band noise sirens AFAICT, I don't know why but the reason may be pertinent to any attempts to use it here? Actually, they often ride without the siren at all, which is completely ridiculous to me; they put it on at the junction meaning there's no time to get out of the way, if they used it continually you can hear them coming.
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But in this case you _literally_ have to do exactly the same amount of work as you'd do while doing it yourself.
Five-a-side is very common, tons of five-side pitches in the UK.

edit: in the context of your comment, yeah there's no mistaking the headline is about american football.
You are not taking into account that Nintendo is not a small startup, or an individual. I always go out of my way to help people who need it. I've always found people who've lost cell phones, and I have returned incorrectly shipped items that I have gotten on Ebay and Etsy.

There is a world of difference between a startup or a person, and Nintendo. Nintendo can afford this loss, and maybe they will improve their delivery system because of it.

But if an international mega-corporation accidentally screws themselves instead of me for once, no, I am not going to help them. They would never do the same for me, and it doesn't matter because they are not a person they are just a system, and will not appreciate it anyway.

And also, again, they are abandoning property with me. Are you seriously saying that some corporation can send you something, and expect you to keep it in good condition and then send it back to them? Think about this in terms of responsibility.
No no no no, none of this is correct. Income limits are based on your state's median income for your family size. Chapter 11 is always available; it doesn't make sense for most individuals because of quarterly UST fees. Chapter 7, and Chapter 13 plans based on actual expenses were means tested. Private student loans were made non dischargable. Times between serial filings yielding a discharge were increased by 25%. Pre and post filing counseling/edu were mandated.

Google BAPCPA for more because the bill Bush signed sucks.
EDIT: Nevermind, the wiki link in the post before yours is great.
The opinions expressed in Go are solely those of Google about the productivity of Google programmers. Nothing else is driving design. It is by Google employees for Google employees. Making it widely available and open source is a strategy for extracting value in the form of bug reports and patches and Google friendly upgrades from a world wide community for the price of a few conference talks and some sticker swag.

That Go solves some problems for programmers outside Google is a side effect of being a general purpose programming language. It is not a primary business goal except in so far as it raises Google's bottom line, creates a hiring pipeline, and keeps its employee moral off the floor.
Customer service is an expense, so they want to train us to not even think of trying it. They will also give you a Hobson's choice over arbitration to dissuade you from trying small-claims court (though that may not hold up, at least for now, in some jurisdictions.)
100% of Comcast and Verizon installs in my experience. RCN offered but wasn't pushy and they seem to have stopped.
The best seems to be to hand off the hard parts to smaller organisations and allow you to talk to those organisations (technically, the local delivery driver likely is a contractor, but you don't have a direct line or relationship with them).

E.g. when getting warranty repairs for my Thinkpad, dealing with the central Lenovo organisation wasn't great, but once they accepted "customer device has an issue" they pass it off to local service partner, and those (in my experience) deal with issues quite well. And if you don't have on-site support, some repair places take your device and handle the warranty communication for you (and have an established relationship with Lenovo making that easier). Probably not the cheapest possible setup for them though.
Special legal protections that make corporations more efficient aren't natural rights, if they don't come with an overall benefit to society there is no reason to tolerate them.

I think they probably do come with an overall benefit to society, but the idea that giant corporations are going to do what they are going to do is one worth fighting against.
"...an arrow slams into the ground less than an inch from your knee."

Nice touch there :)
As far as I'm aware no, there was an issue with some Vitas a few years back where people had to send them back.
Fully agree. Unfortunately the lockers are not very popular yet in France. But I've seen a few added in the last months in my area, hope it catches the steam, because it's way better.

The problem though is that most of the time I can not choose the delivery company, and I've only seen La Poste having the lockers.
I'm glad to hear that my experience doesn't seem to be unique, and I'll know for future reference.

I genuinely do think they're a great company, it's just a really unfortunate turn of events that should probably have been avoidable.
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Not sure why the downvotes, this is a very good point.

If a requirement for being street legal is having a horn then the assumption is that the driver has the ability to press the horn. (like having a condom sitting on a shelf, it's not effective if not used).

Not programming the car to use the horn is basically the same as not making a button in the cabin which can activate the horn for a human driver. In that case it would be not road legal.
Yes - In my view revenue (and probably most accountants would also say this) is the delivery fee only. If you think about it, most marketplaces have this same issue. This isn't unique to Instacart, Enron did the same thing...(our accounting prof used them as an example). It's just not useful for analysis of the company.

Edit: Most marketplaces can charge you the "full price" to keep the transaction on the platform; however, they are only paid a small portion of that transaction as revenue -- e.g. Fiverr/Upwork/etc. don't keep the full amount the service provider charges their client, only a (hopefully) small fee.

https://a16z.com/2015/08/21/16-metrics/
#6 Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) vs. Revenue
"In marketplace businesses, these are frequently used interchangeably. But GMV does not equal revenue!" The rest of A16Z's explanation is worth reading.
> A bigger problem is usually not having a drivers license on you

Why? What about people that just don't have / need a drivers license?
There's many people out there, myself included, who signed up with Facebook years ago and don't use it today. I don't like FB personally but don't understand the steady stream of criticism about -- that it's too addictive, that the site should be curating content in the wake of the last election? Pretty sad if you ask me. FB is not responsible for verifying the truth of every FB news post, nor helping its users to live productive meaningful lives. If you are addicted to FB you should do some soul searching.
>Or how about not pissing on other people’s valid ideas because you are offended and want to show off your own contrarian cleverness?

How about not calling other people's criticism "showing off", "contrarian cleverness" and "pissing"?
It wasn't even freezing overnight at Strasbourg [1], I doubt that the cold could cause any effects at 5C. Maybe they were run once a month but never tested under load? 2x20kv lines failing will have put them at near maximum load immediately, perhaps they weren't designed for that.

[1] https://www.accuweather.com/en/fr/strasbourg/131836/daily-we...
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The solution for authorization/access control is to use "Dataloader" [1] which is also made by Facebook.
You write a single source of truth for how authorization is handled, and make sure that graphql resolves with this source.

Dataloader is not as well known as GraphQL, but crucial for complex authorization systems imo. It also has a bunch of other features like batching and caching which makes your life easier when opting for this solution.

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/dataloader
There are 20k different sorts of genitals. More seriously, it would be chromosomal differences I guess.
News discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646571
Interesting hypothesis. How does it explain the doctor in the article, or the lawyers, entertainers, and other wealthy people who wind up addicted?
Haven't been there, but anecdata from my friend who spent 2 years there says yes, but you have to probably work remotely, because Japanese companies are very rigid, hierarchical and conservative - culture clash might be hard and you might be suffocating.
Your comment (and mine) also has zero relevance to the discussion besides shoehorn yours and the clickbaity post's agenda.
> This is good news overall. Glad to see some sanity coming out of the White House.

The Justice Department is not the White House, a fact that the primary current occupant of the latter has, publicly and repeatedly, bemoaned.
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In Europe fraudsters end up using passport copies and numbers, and the only perhaps good thing is the crime becomes localised, but if you travel into that area you might be in for a shock as I was. And then try to explain it wasn't you in a foreign language. I think the single US system has a chance of being sane to correct if you are a victim.

I have lost the battle to clear my name. Different states in Germany for example have different police systems and argh..
It has nothing to do with profit driven. The problem is about intensives.

The perverse US health care system with all its regulation has made it so that doctors primary make money by giving away pills.

There were other models where people would basically have subscription to clinics and those would have a intensive to keep you healthy.

The problem is that all alternative models are literally illegal.

Check out this podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/christy_ford_ch.htm...

They talk about this book: Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System
+1. The machine analogy is excellent. You have moral obligation to humans. You may decide to have moral obligation to society if you like the one your in and want it to grow. But you have zero obligation toward a souless entity. It's a robot. Optimized for profiting from a service it failed to perform adequatly.
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Thanks yeah 7zip looks useful although the standard macOS unzipping utility can’t decrypt it when it’s encrypted using AES256 (not sure if windows can natively). Hence I’m concerned that the third party will also need a copy of 7zip...
What you describe is exactly the same as what jdavis703 said, not the opposite.