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During the Second World War, Britain had hundreds of subsidised restaurants. They played an essential role in mitigating the worst privations of rationing, providing a nourishing meal for about $2 in today's money. The restaurants were so popular that many remained open until the 1950s.

This policy might be a vote-winner, but it's an honourable vote-winner. Quite aside from the obvious humanitarian justification, investments in nutrition have a tremendous RoI. Malnutrition remains one of the key limiting factors on India's economic growth; a bit of China-style central planning might not be a bad idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant
I live in a (D) State. My tax rate is comparable to what it would be in the UK or Germany. We’re among the highest spenders nationwide in education (and by extension the world). But the roads are still terrible, the trains don’t run on time, the schools are just okay, and our largest city has a murder rate about 20x that of big Western European cities. There’s few public services—no child care, no health care, no labor protections, etc.
I don't understand what the parent is trying to convey.

I realise this might sound negative or naive-for-the-sake-of-political-commentary, but it isn't. I legitimately do not understand what the parent says.

I mean, I understand it literally, but the statement seems to me to convey some meaning that I am unable to decipher.

Perhaps it's because I'm not from the US?
Like Midas, it is the dream of all green auditors until they find it and realize the downsides.
Lead is a very poor proxy for economic development. It was actually known to be somewhat toxic though very useful even back then. And it's use declined in part because people got better at metallurgy not simply because the overall economy declined.

Flying buttress are an example of a significant and complex innovation in architecture developed soon after the fall of the Rome. Though it took a while to really develop. So, evidence for 'loss of knowledge' with building large structures is rather simplified. Loss of political and economic structures to build large scale projects is far more clear.

Rome at it's peak had ~70 million people across Europe, the middle east, and North Africa. Adding up all the individual peaces after it's fall presents a different story than looking at just Europe while ignoring the huge influx of goods and slaves from other territories.
At the same living arrangement? And the marginal tax rate is higher. I would say it works out dollar-to-dollar. What you have to include is weather, cultural opportunities, etc.
English not a native tongue, so listening is faster to me. Plus gives eyes a rest. But how does reading transcript different from normal text?

p.s. I do like 99% Invisible, my most recent find.
My alternative is a Librem:

https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disab...
Does React build any cached or compiled intermediates for its templates?
I'm not sure your thinking applies to the term "technical debt". It's simply a way of phrasing the downsides of crufty old code in a way everybody can understand. If you really want to stretch the analogy, you take on debt to get a tangible immediate benefit - wouldn't the benefit be maximized profit or increased revenue?
region != zone
As good as this initiative sounds, I don't have high hopes of it succeeding in the long run. I have seen how many Amma canteens in Chennai have run into neglect or effectively closed down a mere 3 years after opening. As long as initiatives like these are politicized (which is unfortunately true in most countries), they won't last for a long time. The next political party to come into power will most definitely run it into the ground.
I have serious health problems that make a regular job not work for me. I asked around and Patrick McKenzie suggested a writing service to work for and that has worked well for me. I also blog about my experiences with that and how to make that work. I am slowly branching out into other related things, such as resume editing. My income is gradually going up.

You can also blog, comic, create an Etsy shop, try to make money online with things like Zazzle, etc. I would shoot for getting some money coming in, then trying to improve on it. Google for examples of people who did something vaguely similar and read their stories.

I still don't make very much money, but I make more than I used to and it pays better than not being able to work at all. And, yes, that fact does a lot for my mental health.
> Where they recreate the classics...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,433134,00.html
Seriously. After they pulled that from the last ME vulnerability they lost me as a customer.
What does it mean for something to be an "air-gapped commercial cloud"?
That is a bad example indeed. The event of the Black Hole of Calcutta, where soldiers were rounded into a tiny dungeon which few survived, was perpetrated against British soldiers working for the East India Company by the governor of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah.
Up here in northern New England, I just harvested kale from my garden, and my CSA pickup on Sunday had a nice variety of squash, root crops, greenhouse spinach and cabbage. I'm sure there's plenty of things in season in southern PA.
> I do understand why people would want to speed up their podcasts backlogs—I'm currently about 50% in, working my way through >500 hours of 5by5's Back To Work with Merlin Mann.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and if I had a 500-hour backlog in one, I would conclude that I care about other things more, and either unsubscribe and delete it, or stop downloading episodes by default. I used to auto-download Fresh Air, for example, but when it started backing up, I dialed things back, and now listen to 25-50% of episodes. I also used to listen to The Talk Show, but decided there were other things I would rather do.
If it isn't, it should be. Not sure how a government writing rules while keeping its citizens in the dark can be a "good" thing.
I think that's only for BIOS updates, not ME. ME uses an Intel provided flash EXE. It would probably run on PE or definitely Windows to Go though.
Try #devops on Freenode maybe.
I really hate podcasts. I can't stand listening to unfunny people with bad microphones taking 15x as long to get information across because they insist on starting every episode with a bunch of discussion about their boring lives, followed by various tweets people have sent them.

Then they get distracted constantly throughout the podcast. It's just infuriating.

What podcasts do people recommend? Because I'm surely not listening to the best ones.
I think OP’s point may have been that Clinton was never convicted, but that doesn’t mean his reputation shouldn’t suffer as a result of the credible allegations.
Link to the Automata course:

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:ComputerScie...
What a coincidence. I copied this law to my collection of quotes, and the last entry was this:

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

-Brian Kernighan
AppArmor is probably a good product.

Unfortunately, I've been left with a bad taste.

MySQL Ubuntu packages pull in AppArmor by default - BY DEFAULT - and include a profile that doesn't let you put your data dir anywhere except for one particular location. And it's virtually impossible to tell why MySQL can write to THAT LOCATION RIGHT THERE where is clearly has the appropriate permissions.
The question isn't if Silicon Valley will survive. The question is if there's a chance for new hubs to develop.
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Pittsburgh is always near the top of affordable city charts. Now that the regional fracking boom is over, there's plenty of housing available. Depending on the neighborhood, there's plenty of walkability.
But four out of the current big five were founded by people in their early/mid-20s (only exception is Bezos who just turned 30 when he founded Amazon).
Do you have any reason to believe this besides intuition? Anecdotally you'll find lots of people who say they retain a lot more at 2x speed than 1x, including me. Just look around this thread. Here's one study on this I found with a quick search: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-015-0841-2

My own intuition tells me that everyone probably has a maximum (and maybe minimum) speed that they're comfortable with, and there's no reason to assume that a podcast host's preferred speaking rate is the same as an audience member's preferred listening rate.

Speeding up your primary focus is not at all comparable to consuming something as a secondary focus. I agree that "watching" something in the background is terrible for comprehension and retention.
I think that your thinking is too shortsighted. Autonomous driving, if it's going to be as rosy as you and I both think, is going to be what kills much of the auto insurance industry. What we have now are more serious and more frequent accidents compared to the ideal future, yielding higher premiums. Higher premiums --> higher cashflow --> higher profitability for insurance companies. Sure, they want to see fewer accidents - but if it's to an extreme to the point where competitive forces dramatically bring premiums down, the insurance business won't be so great. I see insurance companies lobbying very strongly against autonomous driving in the near future.
Can you provide details? How's it booming?
But those are not their business. They make no (ok little) money from them. Apple makes as much money from dongles and charger cables. Their business is still AddWords.
i.MX6 is modern-ish and is bootable without blobs.
Note that React doesn't do streaming HTML in the traditional sense. You can't send out initial HTML while you wait on an API response, for example. Instead only the serializer is streaming. Your app renders to a VNode synchronously and then the serializer traverses the VNode, synchronously, and streams the strings out as it goes. This is why streaming is only a little bit better in these numbers.

If/when React gets real streaming it will compete better with traditional templating engines, most of which don't do streaming. If you use Node.js and want a traditional templating engine that uses JS template literals and does do streaming, check out my project: https://github.com/matthewp/flora
This depends in some part on your adder design. For the simplest adder, a ripple-carry adder, your power consumption is gong to scale with the width of the adder and an addition will take time proportional to the width to perform, with an energy cost proportional to to the width. This sort of adder doesn't really have any long lines for carrying bits long distances, everything is local once the data arrives at the adder.

With carry-bypass or carry-lookahead you have a time of the square root of the width and the costs are both proportional to the width, a constant factor larger than with a ripple adder. These are the ones used in most higher performance CPUs, or were back in 2007 when I thesing. You have some long lines here but never more than square root width and a small number compared to the number of transistors.

With tree adders you can add numbers in time proportional to the log of the width, costing a number of gates that grows as the square of the width. Now, if you assume that the inputs are all equally likely to be ones or zeros with no correlations then carry chains aren't likely to propagate very far up the tree. But as you point out if you happen to have an addition that creates a long carry chain then you'll end up switching most of the gates and using a lot of power. One of the things in my thesis that was actually practically useful was showing that you do frequently get long carry chains on real data meaning that the naive approach of counting gates works better for analyzing tree adders than trying to derive activity factors from simplified models of the inputs. These ones also have particularly long lines that have to be switched for long carry chains, and lots of them.

I got my data from using this tool Intel puts out to instrument binaries like, say, 'ls' or 'mozilla' and reading out the inputs for every use of the adder. Well, random stretches of 100 uses anyways for the browser, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to store enough data.
I have heard stories that you can be VERY selective with the advertising. I wonder if you could construct an ad that targeted only you; then, you could put family pictures or something as the ad image, so basically the ad space is filled with nice pictures for you to look at.

Wonder how much that would cost?
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There are a few commercial container security products too - twistlock, aquasec, neuvector - for those who can't wait.
Assuming that they accrete whatever they buy and use it, that strategy has less and less effect over time,
That’s one of the things I do when editing my YouTube be videos. Cut out all pauses in speech.

I find that when I’m watching/listening something as long as there are no pauses, I don’t need the 2x speed. Particularly because I find speech often difficult to follow at anything more than 1.3x while at 1.3x the pauses are still way too long.

Smartspeed feature has been a godsend.
exactly.

and it's more like "handle" stress better
If a person (a) has the freedom to act as they will and (b) understands what is in their own best interests, why would they act in a way that is contrary to those interests? When someone says, I really want to stop spending all day on Facebook, but I find it difficult, what do they mean? Where is the difficulty? They aren't confused about what they want. You might say they "like it" too much to stop, but what is liking something in that way if it isn't a constraint on free will.

Besides which, psychology and neurology tell us that most of the time we haven't a clue what our underlying motivations are[0]. We do not have the ability to introspect our unconscious motivations, but that doesn't mean they are immune to external influence and manipulation.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection_illusion#Unrel...
If you have a hard time imagining normal users who would use this, then I suggest you grow your imagination and teach users what possibilities there are.
> At the same living arrangement?

No, but you answer the question of what that's still a fair comparison yourself:

> What you have to include is weather, cultural opportunities, etc.

Turns out that a small apartment feels a lot less like a jail when the weather's bearable almost the entire year and there's world-class hiking 30 minutes away.

> And the marginal tax rate is higher.

1. Which I include. In the worst case, this merely wipes out the delta between the real bonuses you get on the coast and the (conspicuously tiny) bonuses you get in the mid-west. The difference in tax is gone before you even start comparing salaries!

2. And that's not even fair to the coasts, because higher taxes do, in fact, buy some differences in quality of life.
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> The creation of websites is being automated by WordPress (and others) today.

Isn't WordPress dead or at least dying by now? Its main use case - blog engine for desktop browsers - is much less relevant than was years ago.
Does anyone know what constitutes the 'Other' portion of Microsoft's pie chart, accounting for 18% of their share of revenue?
https://github.com/walmartlabs/react-ssr-optimization

React definitely needs work here and i think the right people are quite aware of the issues.
We have issues with people dredging sand in Memphis on our Wolf river. Awful stuff. The philanthropic community has been working on buying up most of the land next through a conservancy.

Memphis is built on a thin layer of clay on top of sand. Which is actually great, we have one of the largest freshwater aquifers in the country under us. The only problem, we don't know all the locations that the aquifer gets refilled. :(
Regulation by whome, exactly? At least in its current state, I get to choose between my state-sponsored media attacks...

If your opaque point is that we need to break these companies up for... reasons... (Because maybe Russia-something?) Then I suppose I disagree with you less, but not on that principle.

It seems to me that these problems are better solved through education, rather than censorship & policing. But educating is impossible because it would lead to a more informed public.
> I spent a lot of time on Reddit, and would check it subconsciously, so I deleted it.

How can you delete a website?

No seriously, how do you keep the browser from hooking you?

I don't have any apps installed and I often fall into a reddit-hn-local_news1-local_news2-it_news1-it_news2 cycle that I start all over when I'm done with it just to check if something new happened in the meantime! Especially on Weekend mornings or when I come home from work, I can sink hours into that cycle and feel increasingly miserable about it, but the sweet endorphin rush of new bits of information can push that away momentarily.

I have tried editing /etc/hosts in the past, but this tends to only shift my cycle to other websites.
Sounds like poor planning and oversight then. Tax revenue levels certainly aren't an indicator of competence of the local and state government.
Now all of your e-mails and private data don't have to be carried all the way around the world back to Bluffdale, they can simply be dumped into AWS!
Also, water is wet.
What you are talking about is called Monocular SLAM. The process of calculating the trajectory inherently maps the world at the same time by estimating feature positions by inter-frame distances.

It really isn't a problem to use video frames, but they have different types of error/noise to high res stills. For example, the video camera is moving, and it has rolling shutter, so every pixel (or pixel row) is from a different orientation. If this isn't accounted for it introduces noise, but doing so takes more/better processing. But video frames have consistent intre-frame delay and good coherence, so it is easier to match features frame-by-frame than from a heap of individual photos. If you have good (hot GPS) positions then that makes both situations easier.

Model visual quality is improved by better resolution pictures in a fairly straightforward way... But you can get the same data by physically moving a lower res camera closer to all surfaces. It is just harder to scan quickly and maintain track if you have to do that. Some people even put lenses in front of their depth camera to zoom in tighter, for capturing finer detail.
As an aside, India's birth rate has been dropping precipitously over the last few decades. In 1960 the birth rate was 5.9 per woman; today it's 2.4 and still falling. India's birth rate is now lower than America prior to 1970. At current trends, the birth rate in India will drop below the replacement rate within a decade.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
Man, that was quite a conclusion from very little data.
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Isn't the whole point of server-side rendered React to render it just once, when building the website, and then serve it as static HTML/JS/CSS assets using a static webserver?
It amazing that the US spends almost as much taxes on health care as Canada but don't get any free health care for it!
"he co-founded Time Well Spent, a 'movement to stop technology platforms from hijacking our minds,'"

But I'm sure he isn't at all biased. :-/
This is so obvious I thought it was satire.

The assertion the title makes, "SHOWING GENDER ROLES AREN’T PROGRESSING", is also laughable. It's the equivalent in ridiculousness as saying that because men admire beautiful intelligent women, it must mean gender roles are't progressing.

Why wouldn't you want an attractive, muscular man who has money?
So more like Yammer than Gitter.

Ie very asynchronous long life discussion, and searchable. Not real-time chat.
I'm in the process of cutting back (deleting apps, etc.) and will get a non-smartphone to replace my current phone soon. I plan to write some custom scripts to send me text messages when someone @-mentions me on Slack -- or they can send me text messages directly in an emergency.

I was an adult before Internet use was widespread, and many things were better back then. People don't really need to be connected to everyone on the planet at all times of the day.

I already left Facebook, and it was a great decision. I avoid all of their products, including their software libraries whenever possible.
And/or the qualifier "we are now causing a lot of damage getting resource X because our preferred source is running dry".

Rivers can afford to lose some sand, but not all.

Convenient oil Wells cause very little damage compared to clear-cutting and surface mining tar sand.
The "Top Secret" cloud is not connected to the Internet.
Same. There's a facade of niceness in the Midwest that doesn't go very deep. In a lot of more-rural areas, newcomers are viewed as outsiders and kept at arms-length for years at a minimum. This is not to say mid-westerners are unusually angry creatures, they're just not as benevolent as the stereotype implies. Southern hospitality is an even more extreme version in my experience.
That was a really bizarre statement anyway - north Africans are often very light in skin tone. The author appears to equate "African" with "black", which isn't at all the case. It's a big continent with a ton of diversity and always has been. For example, look up images of the Berber ethnic group.

When the author is getting basic claims wrong and accusing people of racism based on things he clearly has no idea about, it's hard to take the rest of his argument seriously.
It's very difficult to win a Kaggle comp these days, not because of technical difficulties, but because you're up against teams of people with the resources to try a lot more hyperparameters than you. To a certain extent you can win with money - if you can afford to spend money on a bunch of AWS instances, that gives you more iteration time than one person with a 1080 in their bedroom. (So no, they're mostly not students.)

On the other hand the problem sets are 'real' and it's excellent machine learning experience - importanly because you have the competition element, you get an idea about how good your solution actually is.
Seriously. Progressing towards what, exactly?
The article also mentions a shortage of gravel. I'd certainly be surprised if there were a shortage of both sand and gravel but rock were in abundance.
Agreed it’s a similar psychological principal, but the threat model you’re describing from HR is silly.

ESPP is only for publicly traded companies, and when the purchase goes through, you get shares at a discount on the more advantageous of the starting and ending stock prices.

HR has no power to prevent you from selling that stock, it’s held in a stock account over which you have full control and HR has none.
> They pretty much dominate mobile OSes, they have the top used browser, they dominate email

There's no direct value in any of those. Google gets very little direct revenue from the things you list nor could they ever hope to transform any of them a significant revenue source in the event their primary revenue stream (ads) went into a downturn.
It's a real issue, my startup's react SSR times are ~5 seconds of blocking the node thread on my $40 droplet. It's about 50% react. Our pages are way more sophisticated than your average page with like a query and a form, though. There are many ways to make faster though, one of which is to simply configure your CDN properly.
"Showing gender roles aren't progressing"

That certainly depends on ones view of what constitutes 'progress'..