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A week in a motel is less than what someone so inclined would save on renting a house. If the van is broken, it's immobilised, like a house... If something breaks in your house or with your car, you likewise fix it yourself or call in an expert.

How much have you looked into this subculture? There are people of all ages and they indeed put serious thought into contingencies. There are retirees, there are young travellers, college kids, remote workers who like travelling around. There are people with nothing in their bank account who can't afford to live another way. There are others with money to burn, but just wanting a lifestyle change. Some are solo, some as couples or with a family, others with pets.

It's not for everyone, but then not everything is.

What honestly frustrates you about it? Do you wish that you could overlook the fears and take a risk yourself?
> That leads to the obvious question - how often does the US government lie to the public?

Lie I don't know, but omit/diverge all the time.
Yeah, AutoCAD is old so you have a lot of people with old command-line habits. I first used it in like '94. Loved the command-line and gui hybrid it used. Commands were composable too, like the "line" command would then ask you for where the first point was and you could use locator commands like "midpoint" or "endpoint" which in turn would take an existing line object as a parameter to select the origin of the new line. Haven't touched it in over a decade though, no idea what it looks like now.
The ENT didn't really know what the issue was for sure, the antibiotics were more of a guess from what I could tell. Since it worked it was a good one.
You're welcome!

Personal experience outside of van building: His insulation instructions are pretty suspect with even a basic understanding of how insulation works. Electrical is done in a way that works, but will make modifying your rig in the future very difficult.

Personal experience on van building: I'm on my 3rd iteration in 6 months of building. This is because as I build it out and try to live in it, I realized that certain things have to change for comfort/safety/ease of use. It's never really done, you're constantly tweaking things.

If you build it out according to the Vanual, you probably won't die/freeze to death/etc. But it might not a great existence (e.g. comfortable or enjoyable).
This is a good point. It's why the federal government should prohibit local monopolies for the provision of internet services. A major problem is that for years localities allowed/encourage monopolies for telephone and cable and now we are stuck with local monopolies.
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Are we really at a point where you need to put a warning on a post just because the guy likes hunting ?
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Do you mean this proposal?

https://euobserver.com/creative/27859 (from 2009)
Great eye!

Originally the project was called Social Writer and those screenshots date back to that time. I decided the name was too limiting and changed it a couple of weeks ago.

Images will update shortly.
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My main work machine is windows - I wouldn’t go that far though I think I know where you are coming from. From where I sit some of their engineering decisions seem much more driven by platform goals, etc, rather than user experience.
> my domain credentials are used to log into the VPN, and TFS, and Octopus. Compromising just that one set of credentials could effectively "own" our company.

This is why 2FA is important! I worked for a company that had a very similar setup: I essentially had a single "LDAP" password. But: everything web-browser went through a single sign-on site, and it required 2FA (and so, you were never entering your password into even random internal applications: there was exactly one page where you should log in). Terminal stuff had a similar flow that also required 2FA (e.g., for SSH). As a user, the experience was not painful at all.

It does seem like, however, from an operations standpoint, getting such a setup in the first place is not trivial.
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I love Robertson. The nice, proper, tapered Robertson, especially for wood screws. It's a shame they aren't more popular outside of Canada.

I am, however, ashamed that I wasn't aware of all the Phillips variants. That would explain why I was drilling out screws last week!

I really enjoyed that article.
One step forward to manage spreadsheets would be if there was a way to enforce relational database table looking sheets. I mean, you should be able to lock a sheet in a way that anything you enter to a column must be of same type, you can't addd random formulas wherever, but you need to add data one row at a time, if you miss primary key, no other changes are allowed, if you have a defined formula for a column, it is guaranteed to be the same in all data rows etc.
> Who could possibly do justice on screen to the character of Ignatius J. Reilly?

I'm going to say ... lots of people. It's basically Reality TV trash in literary form.

I have never understood the literary lovefest that "Confederacy of Dunces" seems to incur ...
This looks great. At first sight, it seems more like an alternative to Ulysses. Would you say that's accurate?
Auction off? I am unaware of this. Perhaps that is not what you meant. Can you clarify or show where this happened?
There definitely could be, it might not even be that hard. I'll add it to my Trello for investigation.
Are we on the same thread? Your comments seem unrelated to the post you're responding to.

> You admit that the OP was correct that things were different under the Obama administration

What are you referring to?

> "The only way to fix anything is to fix everything"

What are you referring to? I'm saying let's fix the problem instead of being dragged into beating each other over unrelated bikeshedding while the beneficiaries of the problem continue to benefit. How did that translate into "The only way to fix anything is to fix everything"?
I'm guessing because of 1) lack of built in logging, 2) lack of change control and 2) difficult to automate testing and verification (because of it's relatively unstructured nature).

Excel as the source of truth for a financial system is particularly scary to me b/c it's so easy for someone/anyone to change entries or miscalculate so it's very difficult for me to get confidence in its completeness and correctness.

Completely agree about analytics and scripting, but I'd utilize the CSV/Excel reports as point-in-time analytics that can be tied back a structured source of truth (or a source of truth I can hold liable, e.g. a bank or credit card statement).
Sounds like they're using the idea described in this Jim Gray, Lamport paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.159...

Azure SQL DB has had the same HA coordinator built in for a couple of years now in their distributed transactions. And so has Spanner.
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Does the currency they measure in impact anything? Every currency is correlated - they could measure in Swiss francs or yen and the result would still be the same I assume, otherwise there's arbitrage to be had.
It crashed with airbags on.
To be fair, comparing property markets on both sides of the Atlantic, the property bubble seems to be something that Europe and the USA have in common. Perhaps excluding Greece.
Sounds like a great way to get your rent raised by the legal maximum every single time in the future.
No they have to re-write the history. The cartel of minors does not set the rules of bitcoin. It can only undo transactions by doing more work to write an alternate history. Even with the majority this is often unfeasible in practice.
As others have said, you can get version control with Excel by saving the file the SharePoint.

Some huge financial spreadsheets have sanity checks computations. With conditional coloring (turn this cell red if the sanity check fails) these can feel a lot like unit tests. However, these are mostly for business logic - so it's hard to see how a vendor could provide them.

In other words, it's not that excel doesn't have version control and unit tests - it's that the people who wrote excel spreadsheet sheets don't understand version control or unit tests.
I also used it just for my thesis. Most helpful feature was being able to jot thoughts down into cards that could then be moved around and organized until coherent chapters coalesced. If you do the same in a plain outlining tool, you may find yourself distracted by the order it pre-imposes.
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I think it would have much greater repercussions over time, eliminating one of the few concrete advantages of Apple products. But for now let's assume it only lost them a tiny share, perhaps one percent. Even that is a massive fortune compared to the money Apple could possibly make selling a bit of marketing data under the table.
I know we used to, but is gold still mined to sit in underground vaults?
The Spiderman reboots are terrible, but predictable given the value of the license and the terms of the license. Sony's license from Marvel. Sony has to release a Spiderman movie every 2 or 3 years, or they lose the license, and it's unlikely Marvel's new owners (Disney) will license him out again. So, if you don't have a good idea, just go with another reboot.
He was living in the East Bay. Thieves there do attempt to steal from cars that have people in them. Also, vandwellers often take steps to make it appear there is no one in the car, so thieves mightn't know until after they've broken in.
It's odd that you think FB is over-priced when Amazon is the one at 292 and FB is in-line with the rest in the range of 10-35. You should be saying "can you believe Amazon is that high, it's on par with Facebook".
Yes. GBP underwent a slippage across the board immediately following the referendum and has not recovered since. Todays news likely to be more about the timing at which these official comparisons are made.
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I think I was shooting for something in between the two. If you've read the post by Hugh Howey about Neo, you'll find that we tend to think quite a bit a like.

Productivity and publishing, that's what I wanted.

Ulysses looks great but had nothing to help me measure my novel's progress. Writing down before/after word counts was just lame (sorry). The publishing tools were also rather limited.

Scrivener helped me publish my first book, but, as I mentioned, I didn't like looking at it (sorry!).

So Singular Writer aimed to have the looks of Ulysses and the brawn of Scrivener (without all the configuration).
> The whole phenomenon of sugar and fructose being added to virtually everything is beyond comprehension.

It may be absurd, ridiculous, perhaps even criminal or genocidal, but it is certainly within the realm of comprehension:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordi...
I don't believe that's universally true. Some communities have cracked down on that.
Are miners actually selling all earned bitcoins immediately? If so, that means there must be at least 20 million USD "entering" Bitcoin every day in net terms. That seems like a lot, certainly much more than could be supported by actual economic activities in Bitcoin (including illegal ones).

How many people are there who are willing to use, say, 10k USD of their own money for gambling? How many greater fools?

Then again, some of those "greater fools" could be people holding Bitcoin that they collected from ICOs, so who knows.

As they say, the really tricky part of attempting to profit from the bursting of bubbles is the timing.
How does a library handle a page fault? What if two libraries set the same signal handler?
Lots of people like non-traceable transactions. Real money (paper notes, gold coins?) has this property. Do you mean credit card or ACH transactions are real money and paper bills are not?
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Shit: rest areas, walmarts, starbucks, cathole in the bush, or a porta-potty in the van.

Shave: Grow a beard, truck stop restrooms in the morning, you'll blend right in with the truckers doing the same.

Shampoo: In the city swimming pools are a decent bet, sometimes you can just ask if you can just shower and they'll let you. Gym memberships like Planet Fitness can be reasonably priced for just the shower. In more remote areas, campgrounds are a good source of showers, sometimes free, sometimes a modest fee. Plenty of van dwellers will even setup a cleaning area in their van, usually some sort of bucket they can stand in a pour heated water over them selves, or at least a sponge bath.

I'm not a fulltime van dweller, I started off just skipping out on hotels during 2-3week long road trips, eventually moved into my car (Pontiac G6) for 6months in the Boston area. Now its more sporadic, a month or two here and there while doing some long distance hiking.
But not all of Banking is just validating transactions. Do you get that?

The amount of energy that goes into maintaining accounts will be the same with maintaining wallets.

The fact that any central authority/gang/thief can seize my wallet by simply stealing my password is a bigger problem than a bank holding on to my transactions...a bank I can trust because of rule of law.

Now we'll have to have fraud prevention for bitcoin...which means more additional energy.
Yes I did take flak... And death threats and people Tweeting my phone number and address. I do regret some of my wording and insensative tone. I wrote it quickly and emotionally out of frustration never expecting more than a handful of people to see it.

At any rate, I'm leaving SF next month for much greeener pastures. Nashville, TN. I just can't deal with SF absurdity, hypocrisy, and the lack of accountability and action anymore.
Negotiating a fair free trade deal is harder for a smaller market who every one knows are in need of a trade deal.
Before I clicked I was expecting this to be a "random numbers as a service" announcement, based on lava lamps or something.

And yes I know CloudFlare did the lava lamps thing, like a bunch of other people did it before them. But it would be totally inline with Amazon to have a random numbers as a service service to compete with random.org.
Yeah I guess it depends on what kind of diet it is, but most people on a keto diet will avoid sweet vegetables like carrots, corn, etc.
If you're so sick you can't drive, and you don't have a partner with you, wouldn't you be in a similar position if living in a house? Is throwing up in a bucket that difficult? How often in your life are you "too weak to even drive", and how often does that situation arrive without days notice so you can get near help? If I come down sick, I typically get 24-48 hours warning. And in decades, I've never been truly bedridden or unable to drive.

Why can't you leave your vehicle when sick? What's the fear of discovery? "This guy is really sick and needs our help. But wait, he was secretly sleeping in a stealth van - let him die!"

You strike me as particularly risk averse!
How can that happen? The racing thread doesn't exist in the child.
Changing careers is definitely an issue when you end up with 200k+ in debt. Although, even without the debt 10 years has a large opportunity cost. However, not saving because you make money is up to you, if you want to live lavishly to make up for the 2 decades living like a student who is to say thats wrong. You'll obviously end up with less savings but if your a doctor I think you can figure that you.
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I couldn't make this work reliably ... the kinds of applications that call clone() directly and bypass the pthreads stuff are language runtimes and VMs that want to emulate their own lightweight processes. They also have their own page fault handling, and documentation says that behavior is undefined when these things start interacting recursively. It's very difficult for a library to exert control.

At a same time these environments often use native crypto that's implemented in C, for performance, and so it all comes together. Of course the other mitigations present still work, and we're talking about a very very obscure and unlikely set of circumstances, but why leave even a tiny door open.
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Hmmm, shouldn't you compare doctor salaries not just with doctor salaries in other countries, but also salaries relative to other professions that require similar level of IQ and schooling in the US? 250k doesn't seem that high in that context. A mid level manager in a company can make that much
Only a tiny fraction of the power goes into performing transactions; the total power consumed is independent from transaction rate. Bitcoin in 2009 used vastly less power than today yet had the same transaction capacity. The power consumption scales with the price of Bitcoin[1], which is determined by demand and most of the demand right now is driven by future price speculation.

Interestingly, the new cash-settled CME Bitcoin futures contracts, due to start trading in December, will allow speculation on the future price to take place without requiring possession of actual Bitcoin. These futures may both increase Bitcoin adoption and reduce the upward pressure of speculation on the price.

[1] More accurately, the value of power consumed for mining Bitcoin approaches the value of the block reward plus transaction fees.
Well not really backend exclusive: `$('#foo').append('Showing search results for ' + (new URL(location)).searchParams.search);`
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Most Western countries have banned the use of asbestos so the problem isn't getting any worse. But not America!

What's worse is that we've known about the dangers for more than 100 years.
This was initially titled "Britain crashes out of the top 5 world economies"

It made me think of the end of The Italian Job where the bus was hanging over a cliff edge. Seems like a fitting analogy.
The total amount of sugar is less important than the glycemic load and the insulin response caused. Carrots are high in fibre.

"The glycemic index is a value assigned to foods based on how slowly or how quickly those foods cause increases in blood glucose levels" [1]

Coca Cola® (63) vs Carrots (39). Higher is worse.

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So? Those extra four years of education for people who want to be doctors are mostly waste, an elaborate hazing ritual. Make undergraduate entry to medical school a five or six year programme, like in Europe. The increase in physician career years will swamp any plausible decline in incoming student quality, even if they just admit students straight from high school to the current US med school system.
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What are books that you read for a specific topic, that you've found massive use for in a variety of areas in daily life?

I thought to submit this thread after reading

> Reading the book (on operant conditioning, with particular emphasis on how it can be used to train dogs) was transformative for me. Operant conditioning is such a major force in shaping our behaviour. I learnt an awful lot of things from this book which should have been taught in school; I see the principles around me in action every day, but they're just not the kind of thing one habitually pays attention to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11425249

In regards to a book about dog training.

Other books I've seen this mentioned about:

- "The Inner Game of Tennis"

- "Nonviolent Communication"

- "The Design of Everyday Things"

- "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk"

What are books you read on a specific topic, that have ended up changing your view of daily life, or being useful in many more situations than just the topic of the book?
"Real state in London in 100 years? Anybody's guess."

Ahh - but we can 'guess' - and given how we know the world works, there is a very high likelihood that London property will have value, and probably more than it does today.

BTC - there's a decent chance it could be worthless.

Though BTC does own the 'upper end of value spectrum' - i.e. investing in BTC could make you 1000x richer in 100 years - and London property will never do that - BTC also owns the lower end of the spectrum, i.e. with a range of probabilities at zero, or near zero. Meaning - not a very good store of value.

In fact - as a 'store of value' BTC can't even be remotely considered when there are so many better options.

Speculation? Sure. BTC is might be a good bet actually. Store of value? Bad bet.
On the contrary, the opportunity to access the UK market has much enthusiasm.
Seconding this. Both Elixir and Erlang (https://erlang-slack.herokuapp.com/) use one for their slack channel, and it works great.
Many European countries also have shiny new property bubbles, unfortunately. I do wonder how far the US can push its debt; the new tax plan might be the last straw, if it happens.
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That's not a realistic comparison. I have yet to see one user try to modify Firefox's code. Spreadsheets, on the other hand ...
Add me to the list. I visited SF with the possibility of moving there. Its unlikely now, wife hated it.
The driving guideline behind discoverability in a ribbon (and to a lesser extent the Settings) is to balance a combination of the most common tasks and the most powerful ones front and center. The answer to "Where do I go if the thing I want isn't on the ribbon?" is sometimes "Maybe there's a more common way or a more powerful/capable way to do it" because sometimes "it's no longer meant to be discoverable". (Though sometimes its simply it was underestimated to be a common need, maybe because its primary users opted out of telemetry.)

Personally, I think most of the ribbons are extremely discoverable, but obviously your mileage may vary. I agree though that the search boxes for ribbon functions should offer a "teach me to fish" moment of maybe somehow helping you see how you missed that option in the ribbon. Office at least uses the same icons consistently between search and the ribbon so you could potentially get used to the landmark and eventually figure out the sign posts along the way (and Help documentation still exists and is also in the search results).

> I wish they'd spend less time paving paths they can think of, and more time improving systems for discoverability that also address all the things they haven't thought of / haven't prioritized.

The Ribbon (and most everything else in this post-Ribbon era) was extremely influenced by user telemetry to figure out what users were actually using day-to-day. It was designed in coordination with user studies to observe how to make it as discoverable as they could. It didn't just come out of thin air in some ivory tower specification, it was prioritized as much as anything else by telemetry from users.

Similar for Settings, I'm sure the things that are moved into the new application and out of the old Control Panel are being prioritized by telemetry. It never surprises me that the users that most often complain about their "favorite" most commonly used settings not getting migrated most often don't have telemetry on.
Doing logic in a constructor is trouble in any language. Also, typescript and to a lesser extent flow are even nicer than vanilla es6.
Does (can?) Citus optimize the case where the whole batch is visible up front?