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This is how Redbox always plays hardball with the studios; don’t want to negotiate a fair deal for us to stock your movies? Fine, we’ll give our employees credit cards, send them to Best Buy, and have them buy 10 DVDs. Then we’ll have a pizza party, unwrap all the shrinkwrap, and then ship them out to all the field workers who stock the kiosks.

How is this any different, except with digital downloads codes instead of physical discs?

FWIW, I worked at Redbox back in the day as the company’s social media manager. The process I described is exactly what happened when the studio that owned the Twilight movies refused an agreement that would let Redbox stock “Breaking Dawn (Part 1)” earlier than 54 days. Fun times.

Of course, it was all fun until we discovered that we’d sent out disc 2 (special features) instead of disc 1 (the movie) by mistake to about 80% of the kiosks. The Twitter shitstorm from angry suburban moms was ... not fun.
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In Europe, probably English. [1]

Anywhere else: Arabic (Mid East/Africa), Chinese (Asia), Spanish (South America).

[1]: https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21721861-despite-jean-...
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I’m enjoying The Orville but a series without an overarching storyline feels pretty dated.
> Does that strike you as the approach a child would take if their parent were typically super helpful, responsive, and had a really strong strong track record of taking the child seriously?

How many 2 year olds have you raised? I ask, because that’s exactly how many kids act naturally. They don’t realize when parents are ‘super helpful’, their behavior is much more base than that.

I can tell you first hand, a small percentage of kids will behave well almost naturally n matter what you do, and some will behave poorly no matter what is done. Most though seem to thrive with sensible boundaries in place.
So... not much different from a centralized service, eh?
Totally not beanie babies
One trick I developed: The 123 thing is great for stopping a behavior, but not necessarily for starting one, such as getting into the bathtub. For those things, I used a count-down: 10, 9, 8...

My kids never found out what happened if I got to zero.

I think the method was useful because it distracted them from whatever they actually wanted to do, just long enough to get their minds on what I wanted.
Hang in there buddy, early days yet. :)
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It's totally not required to wipe it/over write it more than once. I wish I could find the reference, but someone made a fairly comprehensive attempt to read data that had been over written once and they couldn't detect anything.
Kids acting like kids is basically why we invented religion. You can't actually always take a kid seriously. But you can always threaten them with god.

It works, apparently.
I agree. What’s been interesting is getting to know other families with kids. It’s obviously not always the case, but the fathers often have these elaborate theories. They also look really good in public. I know their wives too. The reality is that they do almost no childcare at home, and their wives have to do almost everything.

It sucks, but the reality (to me) is that you deal with the situations as they appear. Hardest part is managing your own exhaustion after little sleep, look after kids for hours a day for years, and trying to hold down a job at the same time.
Good. It was a corrupt boondoggle operation that was going to cost everyone a heck of a lot of money.

And I say this as someone who would like to see global warming hurry up and wash eastern MA into the Atlantic ocean.

Also, it takes a special kind of stupid to think you can take on rich and very well connected people and win.

>Lawsuits piled up, delaying the project. Cape Wind missed a series of contractual milestones, prompting National Grid Plc and Northeast Utilities’ NSTAR unit to cancel power-purchase agreements in early 2015. At the time, analysts declared the project all but dead.

I forget, is that the one where people were supposed to pay more than the already sky-high electricity rates for Locally Grown(TM) Non GMO(TM) Green(TM) energy or was that a different one?
Sorry for the tangent, but I had never heard “mooch” as a noun. I’ve always heard and said “moocher.”
Yep. You can over write it once with zeroes (or random) and you are done.
It accomplishes what changing it in the first place is intended to accomplish - anonymity. Changing for established connections offers no benefits.
It's actually a comedic reference to an earlier conversation between Scotty and Kirk from the 3rd Star Trek movie.

(https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Star_Trek_III:_The_Search_for_...) see the first bit of dialogue in this page.

Also I don't think it makes him seem like a bureaucrat. I'm no manager. I'm an engineer at the bottom of the org chart, but I still need to deliver estimates to my supervisor. And even if I'm an exceptional engineer, I can choose to estimate the time required for a task as though I were merely average.
because anything not flowery will get you downvoted
I love the 'new trend' of 10 episode story archs... And I find The Orville's return to single-episode stories to be extremely refreshing.
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> What you said shouldn't be enough proof except in a banana republic.

What effect does being a banana republic have on this?
> Moreover why doesn’t printing money cause inflation in the same way it did before?

One possible explanation: printing money doesn't cause consumer price inflation because so much of that money never reaches consumers.
QMS is unlikely to help with that. It appears to be targeted at allowing a single device to vary its refresh rate or resolution without requiring a complete disconnect/reconnect cycle.

The delay you're seeing is more likely caused by HDCP hand shaking and key negotiation. Depending on your situation, there are external switchers that handle key caching so you can switch cleanly - complete overkill for personal user though as they are not cheap.
The modern cliche of long story arcs and backstories is much worse than the "dated" approach of episodic storytelling. I'd rather put up with some "meh" episodes and see some really fantastic ones than binge watch some long-winded drama that has little payoff.
No. An "association" is not a "benefit". It can suggest or even imply a benefit, but they are not the same thing. The former is the result of the study, the latter is misleading and incorrect.

I feel like I need a picture of Bart Simpson writing "correlation does not imply causation" on a blackboard to post on these occasions.
except that people are already dying. it is not the case that nobody dies now and only this newfangled method has some chance of people dying. people are dying now, and the faster we can make fewer people die, the better. even the notoriously slow and bureaucratic US drug approval process recognizes that sometimes new drugs are discovered that are so much better than the status quo that is is unethical to check if there are unknown side effects; it doesn't really matter if someone gets kidney disease ten years down the road if they have advanced cancer right now.

edit: of course I agree that the new way is not necessarily better, I'm just saying that the old way is also not necessarily better.
I agree in spirit but I'd also point out that our public spending on health care is already at about the same costs as western counties with socialized medicine. [1]

Our tax dollars are already paying out as much as other countries do but their citizens get a lot more for their money.

The solution to lowering the cost of medicine in the US has not a single solution but lies at every level of the system.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/Focus-Health-Spen... - it's the second chart.
Its a really good show.
My answer is a phone with a cellular plan. Would I get extra points for my minimalism?
Just a warning, :hover on buttons breaks them in iOS (they require two taps, users get confused. Sad!).
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> Although, I disagree that a screw drive is needed. I use hobbed gearwheel drive on my extruders and rarely is the issue the hobb slipping. Typically, it is the motor stalling instead.

Although that may be the problem on your printer, it's simple to fix because one can always add a larger motor. The problem that they solved is that eventually, a stronger motor won't cut it because the hobbed gear will slip, and that's what this paper is all about. Optimizing the motor is done by just upscaling it, but optimizing the drive is what made them to move away from the existing hobbed gear setup.

> They could go faster if they used a 32 bit controller like a smoothieboard or duet instead of the 8bit "arduino based" controllers. {Not saying RAMBO is a bad board, they are known to be very reliable for OEMs}

I would actually predict a minimal increase in speed. 32-bit controllers don't make for inherently fast printers, they allow for it if utilized properly. What you'll find though is that Marlin and Smoothie both use the GRBL planner under the hood, and generate very similar output. The only major difference I noticed in the output between the two is that Smoothie generates smoother (hence the name) step waveforms.

I guess you can also generate steps at a higher frequency with smoothie, but you should be careful equating higher step frequencies with higher speeds, when most of the time people are running with microstepping settings. Higher frequency allows you to get more dynamic range between speed and precision, but that's not really what the paper was about.
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Gödel suggests If you can explain all the [sufficiently complex] rules; your system is inconsistent (contradictory rules are true).

If the rules are consistent, some things can't be explained.
If you want to ask questions/add comments to the papers being presented, the Fermat's Library team set up a page for that http://fermatslibrary.com/nips
See https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08292 from our group
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you would think! but the first sale doctrine gets weird where the following are concerned:
- copyright
- a terms of service violation (here, as governs the licensure of the code and computer system accessed)

(disclosure: not legal advice, these things are complex, etc; contributed work on an appellate brief on a related matter)
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That's very unfortunate. I consider E3 'About a Girl' to be absolutely top notch. At least as good as any TNG episode.
Not cute enough. Cats have long reigned supreme in internet meme culture, it's the perfect choice.
Hard to believe that any one who could credibly predict this would give it away, instead of making money with shorting Bitcoin.

Seems more plausible that this is itself something that's supposed to crash Bitcoin, so that the owner can make money selling it short. If it isn't, someone will hack it and ...
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Only when the metric we're measuring and the dimension we're looking for improvement on differ. This concern doesn't seem to apply to measuring lung capacity.
What about the benefit of using ECC RAM for a file server? I don't see that available in consumer grade H/W. (As far as network H/W I'm in full agreement.)
That's Mr. Davis to you.
Foxconn (not a Chinese company, fyi) has been building out capacity in other countries, especially India. China doesn’t have as much leverage here as they think, cheap assembly is incredibly portable. China on its own account would rather move up the value chain anyways.
This is something I'm quite pleased about - I'm really enjoying Discovery, because it's not the same as Enterprise and Voyager were. (Can't stand Voyager, I stopped watching when I saw the pattern in how it was going to play out in every episode.)

To me, The Orville is more like the better "light" TNG episodes, and happily it doesn't put much work into looking at the ethics of a situation unlike some TNG episodes. My prime example is the doctor's actions against her captor in episode 8 - I thought they were going to court martial her and remove what I feel to be the most 2D character from the show.
Not true for Asia. Perhaps some smaller South-East Asian countries have seen the writing on the wall and started learning Chinese, but for the most part the defining characteristic of Asian countries is that they each pretend they are the only Asian country.
The Orville and Star Trek Discovery are... both excellent, and both very different types of television. The author is on point with most of his criticisms here, the anachronistic jokes ruin the mood of the show.

Really weird seeing an opinion blog on a scifi show frontpaging on HN though. Definitely the sort of thing you only really see here on a weekend.
Your browser doesn't know the laptop is trusted. I'm not aware of any standard API that a browser would use to confirm they're running on a trusted laptop (they'd have to implement an OS specific call for an OS specific feature...which doesn't often happen). In theory Safari could support it (I don't know if it does or doesn't). Apple could push for either a standards body or just Chrome/Firefox to implement macOS APIs--but I don't see any reason those browsers would make the effort.
> the dAppening

Brilliant :D Thanks for sharing this.
Am I the only one who likes Malloy? The Avis/Hertz thing was incredibly anachronistic and hard to believe for someone who can't remember what the US capital was, but I didn't mind because it was hilarious. However, the LeMarr humping scene was too far and I wish they could have come up with some other reason for him the get arrested.
> Not sure exactly what numbers you're basing that on, but I believe a significant portion of that research (especially basic level stuff) is government funded, which is not a good argument for allowing pharma companies to keep prices high.

Nope, government funding is tracked separately.
There's no reason to believe that a return to pre-ACA will make the market behave differently than it did pre-ACA.
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Livingstone was Mayor of London- not Lord Mayor.

The Lord Mayor's a completely different, ceremonial role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London
Wow! If your planning is taking weeks, something has gone seriously wrong.

What I said was no contradiction. How does one arrive at the finish date? Finger in the air? There are essential features and nice-to-haves, and to get a delivery date you need to estimate them. But it's an estimate and so you plan for contingencies.
> The companies would be fine, but it would probably severely limit the availability of life-saving drugs in poorer countries. One can argue that on the whole, that's a worse outcome.

Not really - countries like China and India don't recognize US (or European) pharmaceutical patents to begin with, so they're not bound to purchasing brand-name drugs from the original manufacturer.
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How did they "undercut" when they had to pay full price for the first sale?
Checkout the second to last page for pictures: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05918

I think you bring up a good point about the lack of precision at high speed. I think the next big thing in this industry is going to be diving into the factors behind the 'sloppyness' you mention.

> I'd like to know how well the auger is able to do this.

I can answer this one! it's actually more like a nut on a bolt, instead of an auger, meaning it can reverse just fine.
English gets you pretty far outside of china. If there is one language you need to know as a tourist, English is it.
Agreed. Interesting how on Metacritic the critics panned The Orville and Loved Star Trek Discovery while the users loved the Orville and panned Star Trek Discovery.
Government must have the consent of it's people or in the long run it will never work. Foreign intervention leads to malcontent, corruption and decay; real change must come from within the country and grow organically among the people.
Some older workstations (e.g. Dell T7500) are rack mountable. If you use Windows 10 they can suspend and wake up on LAN to save you power and they should cost you less than the NUC on eBay. It's what I use - Hyper-V on domain joined W10 Pro which can be remote managed so no monitor necessary - it's suspended most of the time - WOL and my VMs are ready to go!
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Was the site hacked?

BTW, I little of topic about the site, but on topic about handwriting. Is there any research about using handwriting on mobile as password?

Not just put your choice word and type on the keyboard, but writing using your fingers.
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It's not a loophole and it was a business deal not a treaty. The USPS exec thought he was being clever by getting free shipping to China, but he didn't realize that there is practically no mail shipping US to China, and lots of mail shipping China to US.
Kids are not entertained by cartoons because they are forced upon them. Kids are often attracted to, and entertained by cartoons and other stories.

Why exactly I don’t know, but they also make up their own imaginary characters sometimes.

In any case, they don’t simply have this stuff forced upon them (in general).
For all the people asking "why?" It's the same reason people pour money into home theater, cars, or any other hobby. People do this because they enjoy it.
Even though china borders Myanmar, there are more Burmese working at google in the USA than Burmese working for all of china’s tech companies. Now what services are becoming popular in newly opened Myanmar? Hint: none of them are Chinese.
Maybe they are saying "We will do our best to control/manipulate the exchange rate rather than let it float"

Sounds like a blast from the past.
They're actually using servo motors! They refer to it as a "servo-driven parallel gantry system" in the abstract.
Mostly just bandwidth, if you have a dedicated storage device it's pretty easily to saturate a 1Gbe NIC.
I like this, a lot, but I feel like I'm going to start incorrectly applying this in too many areas. It's dead true, but also a bit of a catch-all for so many IT scenarios.
> I am trying to put together a render farm where I need a lot of parallel CPUs to run Unreal Engine Swarm [0] but I just don't have the time or experience to execute on it. My goal is 16 Xeon chips across maybe 8 'boxes' to get to around 64/128 cores.

These days, one dual-socket server can give you that, for a pretty reasonable cost compared to the time, expense, and power usage of running a rack full of systems.
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s games would come with a disk for an IBM-compatible and a disk for an Apple II in the box.

That's plenty of precedent.
They can set the prices with a simple standing offer to buy and sell at a given rate.

If the Venezuelan government will sell anyone one oilcoin for a barrel of oil, nobody would buy one for more. If the Venezuelan government will buy an oilcoin for one barrel of oil from anyone, nobody would sell one for less.

They almost certainly won't be freely exchangeable to this degree, but there is no problem with price controls in theory.
In Austin they canvased the city with people literally knocking on doors over a requirement for drivers to be fingerprinted.

There was some nuance to it and valid points being made by both the city and Uber but Uber's absolutely over the top response and absolutism turned a lot of residents of the city off of them.
Ya, as long as housing prices aren’t kept in the inflation index, you’ll never see the money being printed.
If you want to fix the price of a currency between (for example) $0.95 and $1.05, you simply offer to sell to anyone at $1.05 and offer to buy from anyone at $0.95. As long as you don't go bankrupt, you can keep doing this and pretty much guarantee the price will never exceed that range even on other market, or people will simply arbitrage the excess away.
There are slots devoted specifically to folks who get workshop papers in. I registered a couple days ago.

To be fair, I agree NIPS registration is getting a little out of hand, but we should get the facts straight.
Unifi gear is great until you need something that the UI can’t do and figure out you’ve got to load a custom JSON config file from the controller. Their support is also atrociously bad.

The Unifi product is getting better, but I sometimes wish I had gone with their EdgeRouter line instead of Unifi for routing and switching.

I would say it’s certainly good enough for home, but I’d hesitate to use it in a lab environment where configs might get a little more unique.
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The article's author Atul Gawande more recently published a study showing that you are 3 times more likely to die if you are treated in some hospitals compared to others [1]

Both the article and study suggest what I believe is a major failing in modern medicine: We should be measuring risk-adjusted outcomes for hospital treatments, then publishing a rating for each hospital on a bell curve. With such an approach, patients will naturally gravitate towards the better hospitals and the poorer hospitals will have an incentive to improve their procedures.

Here's something to consider: According to the article, "In 1964... the median estimated age at death for patients in Matthews’s center was twenty-one years, seven times the age of patients treated elsewhere...After Warwick’s report came out, Matthews’s treatment quickly became the standard in this country." If Matthews's treatment had been less spectacular - say only twice the life expectancy of patients treated elsewhere - how much longer would it have taken for his treatment to become the standard? Perhaps never?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/business/hospitals-death-...
This is unfortunately a losing battle. It kills me that people overload the code blocking for quotes because it's simply unreadable on mobile/tablet.
I would have done it just slightly different -- picked the child up and held her in silence through the tantrum, even still sitting on the ground. That way, she can feel you there (in case it were a real melt-down -- say from fever or overstimulation, not something calculated), not get bruised, keep out of horse urine, and show other parents that you're not quite that cold. You were right to be absolutely boring and unimpressed. Two is probably a little young to understand "extreme waste of time."
Yeah, you know what? Fuck redbox on this one.

Selling the digital codes separately, while renting the physical item? That sounds like kind of ridiculous behavior, considering you’d imagine them to have a wholesale side-channel for their operation. Do they have unskilled workers acquiring optical disks via retail, over the counter, and then shucking them out of the consumer product package, and sleeving them for rental operations?

But, still, fuck Disney too. It is completely irrational that they insist on operating as this elitist, vertically integrated smoke stack that issues forth a plume of animated gruel intended to placate sheltered infants, piped in by a specially insulated A/V channel for two hours at a time, at like $40 bucks a go.

Both of them suck, but if the game is cricket, the rules are stacked in Disney’s favor in this instance.