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The problem with beer consolidation is what "regulating quality" at scale entails. Consistent quality in gigantic batches often translates to lower quality beer than pre-acquisition. Maybe it's just not possible to scale every recipe to nationwide distribution, but if that's the case it still means a small brewery's acquisition and subsequent scaling to national levels generally means the taste you were used to is gone for good.

Case in point, Magic Hat. The beers are entirely different since acquisition by NAB, and terrible. There are nationally available independent breweries that make quality beer - Oskar Blues comes to mind. They scaled without selling, and I have no doubt NAB or ABI would have absolutely destroyed the recipes in their own scaling process.
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That poll has nothing to do with support for S2X though (or more generally, doubling the block size irrespective of the particular implementation)... rather just which chain would get the name 'bitcoin'
Do you really think it has anything to do with that?
Part of me feels it would be very awesome to see onboard GPU hardware outputting similar performance to discrete chips. Of course it would change the size of the socket, or at least the piece of hardware in the socket and cooling requirements. This would have downsides in terms of consumer choice, mind you, or even the fact that upgrading a chip would involve upgrading both. It definitely has merit in the server or small form factor space though.
I don’t have numbers for you, but I do have a theory on why it makes sense. Monitor contrast has been going up for years to provide better photo and video quality. The screens I used in the 90’s couldn’t do black, only a dark shade of gray. In order to achieve the same apparent level of contrast as 20 years ago, you have to use dark gray text. People who’ve been around a while will instinctively do this to achieve an outcome that feels right, and those are the people who produce these guidelines.
It's incredibly easy to get hooked when taking prescription opiates even if you're fully aware of the situation. I had a wisdom tooth extracted last year, and by the time the pain was finally down to the level I could manage with OTC pain relievers I realized I had developed a mild physical addiction to the hydrocodone.

I had no desire to get high off the pain killers, hell, they didn't even do anything for me in that regard - but I could feel the need to take them. I can easily see how someone without the awareness, willpower and a number of other factors could give in and start down the path of self-destruction. It was a terrifying place for me to be in, and as someone who has responsibly taken prescription opiates for multiple other oral surgeries as well as a septoplasty it was one I never thought possible.
Can't fight them on price? Fight them on talent.

Whoever at AMD who refused to match the offer probably made a terrible decision. This is about the worst time to lose that talent right after inking a gpu die deal which, in light of this news, will only be temporary. AMD just got played.

If I were AMD, I would review Mark Papermaster's comp and incentives to ensure he doesn't leave.

(I'm long AMD)
Actually, I'm trying to have a nuanced conversation on a sensitive topic with an open mind.

I get the feeling this is one of the things that no one wants to discuss, or at least it's a bad idea to try to discuss it.

Note how violent and immediate the reaction was, right when I tried to point to a segment of people who are the most likely to be in the target segment of the original article. I don't feel like martyring myself, so I won't push it further. But suffice to say, it does not seem like we as a society are ready to have hard conversations about why people turn to drugs.
> The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has issued a $26.3-million contract to Lockheed Martin to design, develop, and build a high-energy laser for tests in a tactical fighter jet by 2021.

So, if the recent history of Air Force procurement is anything to go by, we can infer that this laser will actually be ready for testing by 2029, the contact will actually cost $12 billion, and it will be an unreliable piece of junk when it does arrive. And that's just the prototype.
If some miracle allows for the debt and loan to disappear, there's just the $323 a month for medical (which is probably not spread out over time, and she would have no credit to buffer it, so she would need savings, which she doesn't have). In theory she could have $1093 to spend on rent, food, transportation and incidentals.

But there are some requirements to file chapter 7:

- First she needs to document all her financial records, which of course she has been doing in expectation of this point in her life

- She needs to hire a bankruptcy lawyer, because otherwise she basically has to become her own lawyer and figure out her state/local bankruptcy laws and steps, which is very difficult for most people.

- Non-exempt property, such as cash, a second car or car she doesn't use for work, is sold to pay the debt. Does an RV you live in count as a car you use for work? if not, there goes her home.

- She has to get time off to go to the 341 meeting and do the mandatory credit counseling and debtor education classes and certification

- Filing for bankruptcy costs between $1,400 and $4,000 on average in filing fees and other costs.

- The whole process takes about six months on average, assuming everything works out.

I would love to know how somebody who's living paycheck to paycheck and can barely afford milk and bread can accomplish this. Clearly there are obstacles that she may not be able to overcome.

But I don't think anyone really cares about reality, looking at the way people in this thread are simply dismissing her using various theoretical devices to prove she simply isn't doing it right. If it were easy or simple to fix her life, she probably would have, because she is much more motivated to have a better life than random people on the internet. (Not that people not choosing to look at reality bothers me - it's people who do not fully understand the situation pretending that they know better that bothers me)
Thank you. I think I still don't really agree, but maybe I will mull it over and blog about it rather than try to talk about my reservations here.
HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15488618
This is not new. Check: https://github.com/jupyter/colaboratory

Colab is the "mature" verison of Jupyter Colaboratory, which was previously only used internally at Google.
Nice, just bought 100k!
Serious questions...if you’ve used an opioid more than once for recreational purposes, I’d like to hear
(1) what prompted you to try it
(2) how old you were
(3) cost
(4) where did you get them
(5) why did you stop

Treat me like an idiot, I don’t understand this stuff and I’d like to know more.

* obviously feel free to use a burner account if you’d rather not speak publicly.
But a case in the other direction is Three Floyds, which is independent but scaling and suffering major quality problems.

You can lament your favorite beers attempting to scale production at all, and that's an understandable feeling to have, but it's ultimately no more reasonable a demand than that your favorite band continue playing your favorite tiny local club.

The sibling commenter here said something I believe as well, which is that in the US market at least, every acquisition is just going to make room for a new independent.
Expressing a beer rating as an average has always seemed problematic to me because different folks' tastes in beer vary so much.

I'd rather have an app that looked at what I've highly rated and either paired me with users who highly rate similar beers, or just recommended beers those folks also rate highly that I haven't tried.

In practice, I just have a few friends that I know have similar beer tastes as me that I regularly swap recommendations with.
One in which men also get a reasonable amount of time off work to participate in the birth of their child?
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Why's it relevant? Why not just judge based on the employee's actual output? It's certainly conceivable that a talented and dedicated woman could both raise kids and simultaneously out-code her male colleagues.
I agree here - and many of my beer nerd friends religiously use this app to rate every beer they drink (Untappd I think its called?). Which I believe is free.

So if said beer nerd had an issue with the big corps buying up ratings... perhaps paying for apps or donating in some way is what one ought to do.
It is in the works [0], and like people said since Google uses Python 2.7 that's the verison that was supported by default.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46941308/python-3-suppor...
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Nothing good will come of this. Stay dark in the forest.
Not just sales departments, purchasing departments too. If engineers could just click a button and order the parts they needed at a known price, how would purcahsers collect those perks that the sales people have to offer?
> Leadership is hard. None of us comes to work to do a bad job, and there are always ways we can be better. So, when you have a leader who isn't meeting your expectations, maybe try reframing the situation and looking at things a little differently from the top down.

IMO the burden is on the people who's job it is to manage people to ask the people they manage what their perspective is on an issue. Managers who do a bad job because they don't care what their employees think have no business managing people.
Interesting, given that just 2 days ago it was announced [0] that Intel was going to start to use AMD for some of their integrated graphics. Now they're going to complete against them in the discrete graphics space.

Also, Koduri recently left AMD after what many felt was a disappointing discrete graphics release in Vega.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12003/intel-to-create-new-8th...
A reviewer that represents themself as impartial, but is partially owned by a company whose products it's reviewing, is committing fraud. The only way to make it not-fraud is to put up disclaimers large enough that people will treat it like an advertising brochure.
So the same as every other forum.
Which should make wq faster?
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The Brewers Association recently put out a new label insignia that independent craft breweries could use, to signify they're actually an independent operation.

I can see why they do it; my grocery store recently saw a huge influx of new craft brands in the refrigerated section and it turned out that _all_ of them were A-B products.

A-B had a bunch of the former owners/brewmasters release a series of video interviews to dump on the idea.

https://vimeo.com/223773287

The video ends with the founder of Elysian saying to be truly independent and "punk" would be to do your own thing and not use the BA's logo. It's sort of funny in the face of Elysian scrubbing their website of mentions of their "Loser Pale Ale," a collab with Sub Pop Records.

The label proudly declared, "corporate beer still sucks."
It's mostly people that started medicating for chronic pain.
What "miracle"? Chapter 7 will eliminate her debt. That's the point of Chapter 7.

She'll need a professional to file for her, that's true. So, she should do what most people who file Chapter 7 do: use the money (saved gradually) she'd pointlessly burn trying to service the debt to hire someone to file Chapter 7.

In the meantime, she should immediately stop making debt service payments. It does not matter that the process will take 6 months, because her creditors have no practical recourse against her. Watch someone with a six figure income and significant luxury assets simply stop paying credit card bills that are integer multiples of this debt, and see what happens. Hint: the debt decreases as the credit card companies and their collectors realize you've stopped valuing your credit score. They're hoping beyond hope you'll spend some amount of money, any amount of money to avoid Chapter 7, and they will keep hoping for years.

The majority of Chapter 7 bankruptcies are no-asset bankruptcies. People who own homes, cars, and retirement accounts keep them in Chapter 7. A 79 year old woman living in a trailer isn't going to sell anything to retire credit card debt in Chapter 7.

It is not only wrong but borderline irresponsible to suggest that someone in this person's circumstances entertain the idea of sending another dollar to a credit card company. The credit card companies are victimizing her today, and she has a clear means of defending herself. She needs to be informed and counseled to make the decision to avail herself of that defense.

As for "reality", I've managed this process for people. I'm confident what I'm saying is reality, just like I'm confident that you can find a place to live in a "non-crack-motel" for less than $290/mo.
Only armchair spectators are still talking about OpenCL. It's as dead as disco.
Even if that was true, they're only supplying the match; we built the bonfire.
Why is it desirable to have inflation?
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15651848
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14400448

This has been discussed here before, and seems to be a bit of a blind spot for HN. Imagine you live in a place where there's only one "mall" nearby: that's most of America (geographically speaking).
Let's hope they don't use the Sun as an amplifier.
How do you propose we better address perceived moral failings?
Is it crazy my first thought is I wonder if I could make a beer website real fast and try and sell it to em. Prob would have to sockpuppet the traffic but nooo nobody in SV does that its immoral!/s
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"We're all independent together!"

Also, what's A-B?
You also also run into a problem when AB-InBev is trying to buy certain hop farms. South African hops are pretty much entirely owned by big beer now and are controlling who can use their hops.
This is a concept. It's a bunch of designers sitting in a room thinking "wouldn't this be cool?"

I'd be surprised if any engineer had any input on this process.
Its not a cop's job. Its a social worker's job.

I do recognize that cops are just "trying to help", and that no one cares about social workers. Cops are in an advantaged position in the USA because they are relatively well respected by most mainstream members of the population. So the fact that they want to help is good.

But Cops aren't given the right training to deal with medical problems or other problems (ie: Fire hazards. In theory, cops could be the ones to inspect Fire Hazards in buildings, but realistically, its better for Firemen to do it).

There are lots of social work jobs in America. A big problem, a seriously big one... is that we expect Cops to do any job. Erm... no. Have drug specialists deal with the drug problem. Cops really shouldn't shoulder the burden of everything in the country.

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Cops should focus on the distribution of drugs. Not on the users of the drugs. The users need treatment, mental treatment that cops do not have the abilities to give.

These drug abusers need nurses and social workers to check up on them every few hours. Not cops.
You're implying the opioid epidemic is in part due to Reddit banning subreddits filled with hateful speech?* Or what? You're also making some odd as hell "both sides"-ish argument somewhere in there that I can't even parse.

I'm sorry, but we don't have to give spaces for people to be hateful - Reddit banning those assholes was the highlight of my week. I'm not trying to claim that these people should just be ignored, but you're conflating very separate problems.

More importantly, the people being affected by the opioid crisis are predominantly not members of these hateful groups, and I'm pretty frustrated you would conflate them in such a way just so you can have an excuse to talk about the loss of a safe space for hateful rhetoric.

*EDIT: After rereading what the poster wrote a few times, I believe they were attempting to claim that the subreddit bans would encourage more people to head to drug use, rather than vice-versa as I originally interpreted it - it's still pretty off-topic though, and again I'm not very sympathetic to people being sad they no longer have a place to be hateful.
>Customers still pay the same price, but instead of $60 for Internet service, it may be $50 for Internet and $10 somewhere else. Or of course the city can tax the heck out of one subgroup of people and redistribute the funds.

No, in your scenario, customers pay $50, and EVERYONE pays $10, including those who use a private competitor.

The customers of a private competitor that also gets $60 of revenue per customer, would actually be paying $70. $60 for their own service, and $10 to subsidize the municipal service.

And even if you have some magic source of tax revenue that is not the citizens (or heavily tax some subgroup as you suggest), the municipal service is still charging $10 less to get the same revenue as the private service.
If it's cheaper and better-quality (which are certainly not given), then I don't think you could really call it "unfair". At least, in the moral sense, that it would be better for society. If the overriding governmental policy goal is indeed to maximize the public good, not to maximize shareholder value.
You can set it up so that Sentry only tracks errors on a subset of pages. One approach I've seen is to have 100% tracking on your canary deployments or for a few minutes/hours after a deployment, and then use the tried and true `if (rand() < .2) { sentry.log(...); }` approach to limit the errors you see. It does mean that you may not receive certain critical errors, but if you are trying to stay under their billing tier thresholds or just trying to rate limit yourself, it's a reasonable trade-off (especially if you are logging 100% on Canaries or for a period after rollouts). You can also customize the error rate based on page so that, for example, you get 100% of errors on checkout but only 10% of errors on the homepage.
Except you can't even do this unless you're managing a team of contractors who never communicate with each other or the rest of the company. Otherwise how do you propose to rate the person who is often behind on their own tasks but boosts the productivity of the rest of the team?
Can someone explain this to me:
Isn't the GPU industry all about Patents and trade secrets (enforced by NDAs). Won't all Rajas expertise be tied up in that?
Where did you get that digit?

$1.6B figure was leaked on the state budget in 2009
Confused, was there ever a difference?
that's definitely a bad case of "lying by telling the truth" semantic clickbait headline
> more media attention on rare tragedies

I think this is a big one, and not just rare tragedies but distant ones. 40 years ago you heard about the bad things in your village, now the 24 hour news cycle feeds a constant stream of fear from all over the world.
The interesting thing is, this founder has apparently put in contingency plans in case they mess up. The organization can continue.

I'm not sure how true that will turn out to be, but it's an interesting attempt.
While I agree that most cryptocurrencies are severely disconnected from reality, is your last paragraph really any different from how the stock market works short-term?
Its the little details in malls, and eveyhwere, that tell you that you are not really wanted. That everyone, just views you as a number, that either goes black or red.

For example hotels- i stayed alon in a double room, and noticed that somebody those two beds apart to so they would not have to do the the sheets on the second one.

Those little, subtle gestures signifying, that you the customer are just another annoying fact one has to put up with in this world. And the malls are full of them. I love places that signify with "waste" that they like my presence.

That small bookstore on the corner, where i buy and order books. I go there, because the salesman will talk about politics and books,often for half an hour. Its a terrible waste and in any place with a CEO, he would be yelled at for a lack of throughput and a failed success at getting me to buy crap.

More then anything, in those malls, i hate the voice that a shop, its people and appearance form.

"Sheep 815 has entered the room, get him sheared in under 3 Mins, abandon instantly when no quick-sale is possible, prevent him from disrupting goods and sales-process."
I honestly abhore shop-keepers who think only about the economical side of theire shops. I know it doesent make sense, but hey im the customer- i dont have too.
When the status gap is large enough, high status people don't see low status people as human.

Very few people on HN will care about incels killing themselves. Suicide hotlines and rehab clinics are for their status peers fallen on hard times, not the filthy incel underclass who dare act above their station.
So yr ideal example is kinda like public roads (fiber) and private trucking (bandwidth). I think that's a neat solution tbh. Especially if the bandwidth suppliers are properly taxed for use of the public fiber, tax revenue which then could be used to maintain and expand the fiber infrastructure.
Consistently, my experience with market consolidation has been lower quality products for more money so I can susidize the wealth of merger consultants.

If consolidation has such a prior, why would I expect beer consolidation to end differently?

Similarly, I disagree about whiskey: distilleries from my state consistently provide a better and cheaper product than large firms, and are basically dead to me when they sell these days, after a few bad experiences.
The big win that discrete GPUs provide to the cloud/backend marketplace (that Intel sorta plays in via Xeon Phi) is from large banks of VERY fast memory coupled with fast-clocked vector processors. But without a bunch of HBM or something similar, the discrete GPU won't be able to do training at the scale that NVIDIA and AMD do.
When I look at the female managers in my company I don't think they do any better.
I probably would have looked at one of those, had I bought in 2017, not 2015.
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GDP is more akin to a Country's income rather than wealth (for simplicity: the sum of all salaries and corporate profits generated by the country's residents, either physical or legal entities; imports and exports of goods and services have an impact too but let's ignore it for the sake of simplicity). So the similitude with Bitcoin would be with the added coins in one year.
Just for some reference. In 2016 Italy had a GDP of 1.8 Trillion USD, 2.5% of Global GDP, close to the 2T of comments here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... ). In 2012 it had share of 1.5% (321 / 20,900 PWh) of total electricity power ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_energy_consumption , let's assume that share has not changed much since 2012).
Global GDP growth is around 3.5% in 2016-17 (a bit more than 1.5 Italies get added to the Global economy).

Broadly speaking, Central banks today feed this growth by printing money (i.e. increasing the money supply), hence inflation. A deflationary currency like bitcoin would have to grow in unit value accordingly because of its cap, if it were to become the de-facto new gold standard. How much power consumption is appropriate for mining needs to be considered in relative terms vs how much mower hungry is gold mining, for example. I am not sure how power hungry is printing and managing cash (incl. security, transport...).
Also, all these activities (gold mining, bitcoin mining, cash printing) also contribute to GDP. Eventually if the power source is renewable and generation capacity is kept at appropriate level (e.g no one dies of cold because power must be prioritized to mining) does it matter? Or am i missing something?