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I can't possibly be trolling if I am stating the majority opinion. Most people these days do not support unions.

5% YOY raises is very low and I would hate to be stuck in that kind of collective bargaing agreement that forced me to accept it. No, I'd rather negotiate on my own and get a much better one.

And yes, unions DO force you to join, because if you don't pay their fee, and accept their bargaining agreement, then you get fired.

If they don't want to force people to join, then I guess it shouldn't be a bad idea to pass right to work laws, that make it illegal to force workers to pay the fees under threat of being fired.

If you like unions, or other people do, then that would be fine if these union people didn't make these rules that cause people to be fired, because they disagree with your opinion on unions (which is a whole lot of people!)

This is not just 1 or 2 people. This is lots and lots of people who disagree with your opinion on how great unions are. And these people should be left alone.

But because they refuse to leave them alone, then there can be no compromise.

That's the biggest problem with union people. They can't possibly understand that people could disagree with them, and don't want their "help".
Reading this I see for the first time why the notion that the universe is a simulation isn't so far fetched.
I got a lucky break when I learned to type around 1960, after my mom got a Smith Corona Galaxie Electric portable. This typewriter did have the 1 and 0 keys, and better yet, it came with a free Smith Corona 10 Day Touch Typing Course.

That was a set of two LP records and a 20 page textbook printed on heavy card stock with a plastic ring binder at the top so you could open it tent style and read it as you listened to the record and typed along.

The first page was ergonomics: how to sit and how to type.

Then you learned the keyboard, row by row. The first two lessons covered the home row, followed by lessons for the top and bottom rows, numeric row, and finally shifting and advanced topics.

It was great fun!
Little Snitch (Mac firewall app) is 50% off. https://www.obdev.at
Jeff Bezos is worth over $100B after Amazon's Black Friday rally
You should at least qualify your arguments with words like, "some", "a few", or even "many", when you make accusations about the global agriculture trade system as running on slave labor.

Otherwise you'd sound like the reductionist simpleton you're attempting to correct.
I'm not exactly sure what the point of the article is or what the author is trying to say. It's pretty much an abbreviated biography bookended by some attempts at philosophizing. It is interesting to hear how much easier the author found his British curriculum than his Chinese. I was also amused by how he mocked his Stanford MBA curriculum, and how the career office people were dismissive of his passion to make money.

Smart hard working people succeed much more often than they don't. Born into difficult circumstances, their probability of 'success' (accumulating prestige and wealth) is much higher than for others.

Of course sometimes circumstances are too oppressive to overcome, and sometimes the stupid and lazy are elevated in spite of themselves... But these are exceptions.
I think the reason they failed is because there is a disconnect between a media site and VC funding. VC funding means scaling - and media is challenged to do that and do it consistently. Some businesses just aren't geared for VC funding. There are naturally examples in media that show it can sometimes work, but that's the exception rather than the rule in my opinion.
> Why take on the stress?

As a precaution against hitting a bad spell. Money in the bank is an excellent anti-dote against all kinds of mishaps.
>Net neutrality favors giant, centralized entities that have more than enough issues of their own...Google and Netflix

What about the next level up, the ISP? Doesn't repealing NN favor those giant centralized entities such as AT&T and Comcast?
The way the company representitives talked about "breaking into dinner" was almost dystopic. How could you be proud to think of disrupting an evening meal with a convenience item for your own profit? It's a damning sign of the way the workforce is made to get by if a need for quick food manages to take over even the time away from the office.
Very slick branding and onboarding
https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/24/vpn-company-tunnelbear-ex... has more info
Revisiting Numerai- larger dataset, tougher model requirements, bigger payouts
I don't know about it being so easy for someone with an actual impairment...

My only experience was with my mother, who recently passed away from a stroke. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in her early 60s.

I have no trouble believing this easy test would be impossibly hard for someone with dementia, even in the early stages. At the beginning, my mom seemed fine to anyone she'd meet, yet would routinely not know what day of the week it was. She'd cover for it by saying things like "since I don't work, every day seems like Saturday". She probably would have failed the test right there.
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[1] https://github.com/sdegutis/ZephSharp
Do you have a source for 50% of their traffic going away and that this was driven by center/right people leaving?
TLDR of why less cluttered preprocessor output matters? I’d say cpp output is usually not that interesting on a daily basis.
Yeah, but imagine doing fractal landscapes on an 8-bit 6502 in 1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZ-chrOgGg
Spent so many hours playing this game on my 386....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdqCjPsBeog
I find it interesting that the author only considers America from the top down - from the perspectives of institutions (Stanford, Goldman Sachs, Costco) and slogans (American Dream, All people deserve to live healthy lives). Part of me wonders if that’s due to America's own marketing, or due to his upbringing in a more totalitarian government, but for most Americans these perspectives are just as foreign.

At dinner tables and in churches all across the country, you hear people say "God is in control”. You’ll hear reminders to be humble and appreciate what you have, because anyone can get ill at any time, or lose all all their belongings in fire, or any number of bad events. The chaos out there is real, whether one believes in it or not. And there's an even bigger danger in trying to control the chaos, and history has plenty of examples (Mao's China and USSR most recent). The limited government in America was founded on a distrust of power, top-down control, and people who want to control the world. Without that bottom-up perspective, America will never make sense.
AMZN, the stock, is trading at a P.E. Ratio of nearly 300. http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN

Serious question: Considering that it nearly doubled over the past year, is it already too late to buy Amazon stock? Or not? What's the upside?
Deli meats are pretty expensive. So is bacon if you're using it as your entree.
We do make a distinction. While a burger is clearly meat between two bits of bread, it's not usually considered a sandwich.

McD's was certainly not widespread until later in the 80s, IIRC, and White Castle has never had a presence here AFAIK.
I wouldn't classify t_d as entertainment, more like depressing.
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Sales, deals, donations, and more for makers BESIDES Adafruit
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I wonder how many people feel the same out of real life experience.

Imperative and mutable objects are still seen as the only way for serious products .. there needs to be a large body of evidence to at least make people consider other options (and I'm not trying to sell my church here, just avoid blindness)
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Just a few years after Comanche was released I was sitting in a high school C++ class, content to explore the language with text adventures and RPGs. 3D graphics seemed vaguely mystical to me.

Next to me, however, was someone who seemed light years ahead of me. He had programmed his own voxel terrain rendering just like this. I had no earthly idea at the time how that was even possible.

In retrospect, he was not so much farther along, but he was passionate enough about game development to read books about these techniques and work out the details. I've always wondered what happened to him, and if he ever followed his passion to become a game developer...
And ordered!

Thanks for the heads-up.
The only people that should be able to leave reviews for a product are people that have purchased it from that listing. I’ve found that the only reviews worth reading are the ones that are from verified purchasers.
I'm a 'free-market' type that believes in prioritizing liberty, and I do not see Scandinavian countries as communist. I just see them as small to medium sized states (wrt a given state within the USA), where implementing such policies is more viable. Only Sweden has double-digit millions, while the USA has ~310M. Scale is an important consideration, and the variety of view points/ lifestyles is greater among such a large population.
Much of the target audience would be much more comfortable with pen and paper.

Maybe in 20 years an online version will be better.
Two people shouldn't be solving the same problem. So, yes, in a perfect language no two people would solve a problem in the same way.
Well, to be fair, some of their inability to cash in on the web could be attributed to the regulatory hurdles (especially in Europe, but with global consequences) they faced in their attempts to push IE as part of the OS, etc. I do agree with you that market forces (courtesy of some wrong strategic decisions made early on and a willingness to stick to them for too long) were the predominant factor, though.
Ajit Pai's FCC (Net Neutrality repeal) plan that is going to vote [pdf]
The object is traveling at 26Km/sec, earth is orbiting at 30 Km/sec. To generate a "stable orbit" is a matter of maneuvering at that velocity. So it's really unlikely that the parent ship
is traveling much slower than the discarded booster, and so it's arrival is unlikely to be much later.
I don't think this has a lot to do with the antitrust case. His wealth simply peaked at the height of the dotcom bubble and then went down again because of the stock market crash in 2000.
Writer notices that a 1800s picture of the temple of Jupiter at Olympus had an addition above the pillars that isn't there in other images nor in the temple reproductions. Turns out it was a dwelling for Christian ascetics, the dwelling being censored from some images and removed to return the ruins to their "original".

Think that's about it, from a scan through.
There's nothing hypothetical about what ISPs will do when net neutrality is gone
Yes, Medium starts with a modal nag screen, then has a sticky header and footer which breaks paging (Mac/Chrome). Medium has totally lost any claim to being better for readability.
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Yeah but it's still noticably more usable because of the UI change in this release. It basically looks more like Chrome for Android; where as before it looked like a Android Cupcake app.
If it's a spent stage, then the parent vehicle is also traveling very close to 26 KM/sec and is already here.
It's more of a sphere
Coincidentally, this past 11th was the first "missing day" of my life, according to the local clocks: I flew out of SFO Friday night, and landed in SIN Sunday morning.
C++ in high school in the 90s? We had Turing taught by our gym teacher ;(
So many people have gotten burned by betting against Amazon because it has a high PE ratio. When you remove the cap-ex , the PE ratio falls dramatically. https://greyenlightenment.com/not-worried-about-tech-bubble-...

I think it goes to $2000/share soon (as in a few years). disclosure: long amazon
The article mentions the way they're even able to abuse that: giving gift cards to users who can then buy the product and leave a fake review as a verified purchaser.
Granted I'm just a software developer, we have a whole processing team of GIS people that can go into more detail. And we are focused on vineyards.

Here's a blog post we made to explain the difference, the jist is NDVI can change throughout the day while EVI is more stable: https://skysquirrel.ca/2017/07/evi-vs-ndvi-whats-difference/
Calling these things "computational essays" is a little like calling essays written on paper "ink essays". Computation is just the means. Human understanding is the goal.

I prefer Bret Victor's "explorable explanations" (http://worrydream.com/#!/ExplorableExplanations) because it captures the essence of what this new media is being used for, while also being more general than Wolfram's conception.
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Whether the packaged sandwich industry is setting its sights on dinner, it has long since set its sights on Christmas dinner. A work colleague this year inspired me to update one of my Frequently Given Answers, which I first put up ten years ago. The trend was already observable back then.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/christmas-sandwich/
I definitely remember them being much tamer and less aggressive when they got into trouble. I think it also hurt their public image.
and Paul Allen got a huge chunk too, whereas Bezos is the only one
This is a good point, but there's an awful lot of post-hoc Just World fallacy wrapped up in those same statements of faith. The really spurious ones - like 9/11 or Katrina being divine punishment - get media coverage but there're more bland ones that are actually more harmful; like disease or disaster being all part of God's plan. It's all good for living a life where you have to cope with what you can't directly control, but not so good when it comes to supporting policy that aims to take action on healthcare, climate change, etc. I'm not saying this to support any specific existing policy proposal, just that when/if the "right" one comes it's unlikely to undergo a rational debate.
That's "reactive"
You don't actually have to become a farmer to adopt the latter viewpoint and reap all the resulting life benefits.
So pfsense was running the opnsense.com website to badmouth the opnsense project?

That’s pretty distasteful.
Eh, more like "writing essays". It's an essay in which the medium is computation, not just words. It's a bit whimsical but not that bad.
Also Literate Haskell, which is apparently alive and well.
I wrote a few lines of powershell recently, but you make me realize I could just go clojure ...
If I have a file like this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include "mydefs-control.h"
#include "mydefs-value.h"

int main(void) {
assert(1 == 1);
printf("%d\n", MYDEF_VALUE_MACRO);
MYDEF_MACRO_WITH_CONTROL_FLOW();
}

My goal is to produce output which doesn't include thousands of lines from stdio.h and assert.h, doesn't expand assert() or MYDEF_VALUE_MACRO, and only expands MYDEF_MACRO_WITH_CONTROL_FLOW:

int main(void) {
assert(1 == 1);
printf("%d\n", MYDEF_VALUE_MACRO);

if (1) {
return 0;
} else {
return 1;
};
}

According to the author, having only the "interesting" stuff expanded makes it easier to reason about the control flow of the code.
AFAICT the idea originated with Mathematica and Jupyter/IPython was "pretty much like Mathematica".
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Not spending nearly enough on rockets.
> Modern life is a dystopic hellscape from this perspective

Hellscape, yes, but that hellscape also has funded your farm and that is something that I'd keep in mind. It is pretty big luxury to be able to (financially) go and live on the countryside, doing farming more as a lifestyle rather than means to livelihood.
I don't deny that he or she may be correct about how Communism was practiced. In fact, Marcuse doesn't deny this either and describes the Soviet model as just as much of an issue in terms of rationality and consumption as Western capitalism. However, while Marcuse is a pessimist I consider myself an optimist, along with Zizek and Alain Badiou and Negri on the Communist Idea in general.

I don't think the errors of the 20th century's Communsit movements should be repeated, and it's our job to look for what these problems were and how to effect qualitative rather than merely quantitative change in them. I'm generally a skeptic of Marxism-Leninism and the idea of an elite group of educators to teach the masses.
Since they seem to be happy to put a price on months of human lives that are not their own, how about instead they just factor the expected costs of accidents and relocations into the cost of nuclear power and tax the utility accordingly. Why is it always the little guy who has to get fucked when shit goes wrong?
This is a "meta-circular VM".

It's a Java program that interprets JVM bytecode. Since the Java program itself is running on the JVM, it actually uses the underlying JVM to do a lot of the work.

This means you get a relatively fast VM but it will be a lot easier to code and debug than using a systems programming language like C++.

But why?

- The original paper (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2400689&dl=ACM&coll=DL) thought of Maxine as "a highly approachable VM research platform and a productive basis for research and teaching." You can see on the roadmap (https://github.com/beehive-lab/Maxine-VM/wiki#roadmap) that they're exploring the cutting edge of VM research.

- I do a lot of tricky network programming - threads and IO. I'd love to have a VM which I could exactly control the threading and IO behaviour so that I could test tricky situations. If this VM is easy to embed in my programs and runs fast enough then it would be fascinating to try it out for writing testing code.
With the volumes they are pushing, there is no chance that a sandwich has been on the shelf for weeks.
The biggest efficiency is nutritional, and taste - varieties that travel very, very well trade off a lot of nutrition for that trait.
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Ah, I still remember some Apollo Workstations used for email (i.e. Pine) at my university. Never got around to seeing the original Domain/OS, as by then the acquisition by HP was very much complete (and boy, if it weren't for IBM, HP-UX would've looked even worse).

Anyone got to use those boxes in their prime? Supposed to be Unix-ish, but not quite...
The 2015 policy was not made in response to anything but fear - the same sort of fear mongering heralded in countless articles across the web. Since those rules were implemented investment in infrastructure has fallen, not risen, due to increased uncertainty about the regulatory situation.

Repealing these rules won't help matters, and it won't result in the horror stories almost everyone here seems to think it will. The recent tendency of the Executive to legislate creates a regulatory climate that shifts on the whims of whichever administration happens to be in power. Why would Verizon or Sprint go through the hassle of building their Evil Empire when the Warren administration will just tear it down and imprison their execs when she wins the presidency in 3 years?
They won't. Smart business will allocate their resources conservatively and pander to the party most likely to place restrictions on them.
That's a great explanation. Thanks a lot for that. :)
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Um, I thought it didn't matter, that's like how long is the point that you make a curve out of when you're integrating to determine the length of a functions curve. But we could say square (or any shape that will tile a 2D plane), because at the limit as the side approaches zero, on the surface of a sphere, any region looks like a flat 2D plane?

I'm flying by the seat of my pants a bit here [in case you couldn't tell], it's a long time since I did any formal maths.
A lot of these words strike me as arcane and obscure. Keep them in the OED, mention them in articles like this, but I don't see them having a lot of practical usage.

I do have a special affection for the words fingerpost and mountweazel. I'll often use mountweazel as a sort of easter-egg/test page in my new web projects (e.g. https://sweeperscalendar.com/mountweazel)

I think Cassandra is a more deserving epithet for women nowadays than Xanthippe.

Finally, a few favorite terms of mine somewhat in this vein:

- ramshackle

- crackpot

- dogeared

- touchstone

None of these words are lost but they are expressive and exemplify a kind of poetry that words can sometimes capture.
Pro-local: attempts to directly avoid problems of trade imbalance and wealth sequestration in imperfect markets

Anti-local: a perfectly functioning market doesn't have those problems

It's basically protectionism with all the same arguments for and against. Less economically optimal, but protects you from market malfunction and bad actors.
This is the cyberpunk future reality that the science fiction authors missed the ball on :)
There's a massive difference in taste, and an objective measure that correlates well with this - namely, the thickness of the collagen sheath just underneath the shell (eggs being single cells.) It's an excellent correlate of the overall health and nutritional value of the egg. If the egg can't even protect itself from breakage well, the rest of the egg isn't ideal, either.
I find the Cliqz issue horrifying and am considering Waterfox for similar reasons, but I have to point out that "every 100th download" is a gross misrepresentation - it's an experiment to be tried in "<1% of German users of Firefox" (which is still bad, but a very different thing from every 100th download). According to [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74n0b2/mozilla_shi...), "the experiment can be removed like any addon."

I still find this a very bad sign about the directions they're willing to explore, but it's important to get the accurate scale of the thing.
Thanks for your explanation. But I think the point of my comment was that the article itself was neither civil nor substantive. Am I not allowed to make such a criticism?
Bill Gates has also given a lot to charity, from the article - 'Gates, 62, who has a net worth of $86.8 billion according to the Bloomberg index, would be worth more than $150 billion if he hadn’t given away almost 700 million Microsoft Corp. shares and $2.9 billion of cash and other assets to charity, according to an analysis of his publicly disclosed giving since 1996.'
Wow, great demo. Even works on mobile!
You're describing the Price-Anderson Act: http://www.naic.org/cipr_topics/topic_nuclear_liability_insu...
That's fair and you're probably right about most. I just wouldn't skip out on bitcoin because most other coins will go away.

Bitcoin is the google of cryptocurrencies... it's going to be the leader for a long time.