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> Perhaps someone who frequently takes classic cars for long trips at highway speeds can chime in?

We own a 1981 VW Vanagon. It's a camper, it travels. 8-9 hours to see the eclipse this summer, as just one example. These days, I clean the windshield more to get the dirt off than remove the bugs. Anecdotal, but hey, you asked. :-)
I'm pretty technically savvy, and I almost never want to use my phone as a remote control. Yes, it's almost always with me, but it has to do a lot of stuff. A Roku remote has a big "Netflix" button on it. I press that button. If my phone had a big Netflix button on it, it would be in the way of dealing with Email, texts from my wife, my work calendar, getting the weather, showing me traffic, etc.

I always have my car keys handy too, but if I had to tap out morse code on my key fob to watch a Seinfeld rerun, I'd kill a hobo just to feel something again. A dedicated device is sometimes far preferable than a general one.
Is that less than 3 seconds a production bundle (npm run build)?
While troubling, i think this is more aptly described as impersonation. Theft implies direct benefit to the thief.
I made the switch years ago because I heard they used Cyrus on the backend and actively contribute back to the project.

I was also getting fed up with being the product and the poor imap support out there.
> If I start by writing X down, then X2, then X3, etc. then the ink on the page describes you as a changing system.

> The ink isnt you. It isnt alive. It's ink.

> That is all a machine is. We have replaced ink with electricity and paper with silicon, but it is only correlated with a changing number.

Okay, good. Now here is the important part.

I am not making the claim that this machine is a real person.

I am making the claim that if you video-call the machine, it will produce lights and sounds that are identical to video calling a real person.

If the simulation is accurate, isn't that a straightforward consequence?

You keep saying that the machine won't be real AND that it will fail sophisticated cognition tests.

Those are not the same issue.

I'm not arguing that it's real. I'm arguing that it will pass every cognition test you can throw at it.

Is there a flew in my very short chain of logic?
Is there a way to back up your keys? If not it could be a problem to lose your laptop.
Specifically, what will happen is Democrats will have to clean up the mess, and the GOP and their cheerleaders will call the fix 'job killing tax hikes'.

But that's later! Right now it's a red herring to call the mess a mess.
I agree that it’s generating interest amongst non-nerds, but I don’t see how this can be positive for the core idea of Ethereum: a single blockchain that many apps are run on simultaneously. The effective fees for all users have gone up massively because of a relatively small number of people playing a very simple game. Many other applications are being effectively ddos’ed if they can’t produce enough value per transaction to justify the fees. Cryptokitties had to increase the transaction fee to birth a cat from just under a $1 to $6-7 [1], imagine how much it would cost to run any of the long-promised distributed apps like a car-sharing service.

[1] https://twitter.com/cryptokitties/status/937794977848897536
>According to the CBO, people who make less than $75k get a tax increase by 2027

Because that's when the cuts expire. Incredibly dishonest framing here.
I disagree that the it was inaction by government that allowed monopolies. The regulation the government put in in the first place have at a minimum contributed heavily to creating high barriers to entry.
"First of all, I think most are overestimating the effect - as mentioned, many other countries don't have similar legislation."

Because a USA apple is the same as an EU orange?

That is, do other rules they have make it such that they don't need this rule specifically?

"But, the U.S. has almost a monopoly on Venture Capital, a huge concentration of skilled labor in Silicon Valley, a huge internal market, relatively more lenient regulation and many other advantages."

This relies on your first assertion being true: that little will change.

If bandwidth costs rise dramatically, are folks going to be keen to invest in startups with shortened run-ways?

It's not one startup that's doing well, it's SV culture. It's doing far more than the other sectors of the economy, thus the shake down of the entire network by legacy players (GOP being more heavily funded by elder-statesmen if you will, of Comcast, Koch bros...)
Your last point is interesting - I believe Idris and/or Agda in fact go out of their way to show a natural number type defined using induction as a key example. I remember being blown away by that.

Coming from dynamic languages towards appreciation of static types, this sort of thing is inspiring. I've been looking forward to writing some practical work in those languages when children and time give the chance.
>1. It has proof-of-work, which gives it value

"I burned a bunch of electricity and created a cryptographically provable magic token".

There is no value here beyond exchanges with the other bitcoin speculators around you. The value you describe is no different to the value of a pixel on the million dollar homepage.

There will be a point where the emperor is revealed to have no clothes and when you try to extract actual value from the bitcoins that you are holding (i.e. sell them), you will find there is nobody who wants to buy.

Although if you like, I'll trade for beanie babies. I've got rare ones, nobody else has these. They only made a few.
On Congress: Many members of Congress have already spoken up and called on the FCC to halt the process until the problems with public comments can be investigated. I hope more of our elected officials in Washington take up that call. If enough members of Congress support net neutrality, especially if it is a bipartisan group, then I believe the FCC is less likely to repeal the strong Title II net neutrality protections that we know the overwhelming majority of Americans support.

On what you can do: I’ve called on the FCC to delay its vote. So has FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the leading champions of net neutrality. And so have at least 28 U.S. Senators. Americans absolutely have the right to make their preferences known to their elected representatives in Washington, and I encourage you to do so, especially if those officials haven’t already spoken publicly about net neutrality. If members of Congress – speaking on behalf of their constituents – speak out on any issue, their statements matter.

My interest in a pause in the process is to get to the bottom of the fake comments and misuse of New Yorkers’ identities, and to make sure real Americans are given the right to have their voices heard. At heart, what we're talking about aren't the merits of net neutrality -- it's the integrity of the democratic policymaking process and the rule of law. In that way, I believe such a delay would be very beneficial to any ultimate result.
But also:

Change != !Improvement

So I'm not seeing the point here.
Rich people or corporations that live in high tax states pay that money, and everybody else that lives there doesn't deserve any credit for who their neighbors are.
GDPR is effectively forcing companies into #1 (at least those who operate in Europe with some minimum # of employees)
Fan-freaking-tastic article
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I don't follow, since you said none of those things --- eval, script elements, DOM attributes --- in any previous post.

I also don't understand why you think it's straightforward for people ("relatively easy", in fact) to verify that a browser JS app is server-proof. As table stakes, you'd need a comprehensive understanding of every way in which the server gets to update the DOM of the client.
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> The focus of my post was that it seems clear that economics is what forced those cities to crash.

Economic policies from politicians influence economics. If policies are bad for business, jobs will leave, crime will rise and populations will decline. Economics don't happen in a vacuum. Most if not all of those declining cities have been consistently run by democrats
I was a bit miffed to learn that the max contribution for an IRA and Roth IRA combined is only $5,500. I did some reading and understand the point of it but I would much prefer to be in control of my own money and where it is invested than some of the limited options given through an employer's 401k.
If you got fired from a job that had a potential $500M payday attached to it and only got a $25M severance package at the end of it, trust me, you'd be pretty bummed about it. Go looking for CEOs that got fired and see where they landed. it's one and done for a lot of them.

Again, there is no room for socialist populism here. He negotiated a package and he delivered results. His interests as a CEO are aligned with the shareholders who risk their capital with ownership of the company. They trust the board and the CEO to increase the value of their investment.

Why is this controversial? Why does it matter if he's rich before or after he does the job? All of these guys are already wealthy before they even sign up. They don't need to do this work to survive.

Somehow the notion seems to go around that anyone who makes a boatload of money suddenly has to kowtow to the public on whether or not they deserve that money. That's not how this works.
> But FastMail supports other clients, right? I don't want to be forced to use their web interface or their app; I'm happy with the Apple-written Mail apps.

It does, but at least for me the problem is using my separate forwarding-only e-mail address instead of fastmail.com as the sender. As far as I see, I need the native app for this.
There are a large number of people who will pay back multiples of their original loan amount (pay back ~£90k over 30 years on a £40k loan) if they earn moderately high salaries to start with and progress to high salaries within the last 15 years or so of their 30 year loan lifetime.

The extortionate interest keeps a middle tier of professionals paying well after they've cleared their original loan amount.

Not to mention - I have no doubt 30 years will be changed to 35, and then 40, when the day to write off the debt actually comes.
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Do you also extend this to allow for pay-for-what-you-use? I don't disagree with charging people more for how much they use, but a lot of net neutrality proponents lose their minds at the suggestion that somebody who uses 5 GB a month should pay less than the kid streaming 10 TB of torrents every month.
I'm not ultra rich, and these tax changes benefit me. From what I understand, the tax changes do benefit a high number of people. But the amount they appear to negatively impact those that don't benefit from them, also appears to be high (which of course, isn't great)

I have not looked in depth at the tax changes (ie read the changes in detail), but I do think there's more to the changes than just giving the ultra rich a tax cut.

It seems to me that those living in high tax states, with expensive housing, appear to be negatively impacted.
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http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf page 36

"A 1962 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Road Test Report shows that concentrating large amounts of weight on a single axle multiplies the impact of the weight exponentially. Test results show that an automobile axle weighing 2,000 pounds would have to pass over an interstate highway 7,550 times to have the same impact as 20,000 pounds concentrated on a single truck axle. As a result, the impact of heavy trucks on pavement is disproportionately greater than the weight carried."

There's a lot of similar sources out there.
Windows cannot possibly cut support for x86.
Why I love Go
If you care about long support times, you'd use an "enterprise" distribution and get exactly the same support periods (about 10 years) as with Windows or Solaris. This is no coincidence.
Maybe dumb questions:

1. How can Intel sue MS for emulator, but linux(qemu) can get way with it?

2. Why MS tries to push the emulator, when they can just port their programs (already ported to Win RT I think) and provide developers some tools to port their apps?
It's not about information. It's about learning how to work with others in the context of a complex institution, critical thinking by interacting with others who have different viewpoints, and in the case of post graduate degrees creating new knowledge.

Those things cannot be done over the Internet easily.
The problem with that is processing power. If the Echo could do speech to text without the cloud (such as generating that transcript you mention), then it wouldn't need the cloud in the first place.

I'll give you that it could be possible to slip in other "trigger words" that could be tallied, then statistics sent off, but really, is that a problem? So what if your Echo counts how many times you say a specific keyword? Would that affect your life in any way?
But American society as a whole encourages that behavior. It's not just education.
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It should have been a "Your Product Here!" placeholder.
The mistake you made in this example is attributing an action in the legislative system as a failure in the market.
I think Warren Buffet also questioned Bitcoin a few years ago, will try to find that reference.

I also just remembered that I questioned it too on Twitter, after seeing some hype from Andreessen, and he promptly blocked me.
Pretty sure he means the subprime crisis
Reducing the number of brackets and removing a few of the simplest deductions while mostly leaving untouched or even increasing the hundreds or thousands of deductions that are generally only usable by companies and very wealthy people is not in any meaningful way simplifying the tax code.
Yeah, normally I'd say two wrongs don't make a right, but if this move manages to convince Amazon to finally support Amazon Video on Chromecast, maybe it's worth it.

Though on the other hand, this could just as easily result in a long-term standoff.
Windows RT could only run metro apps. This can run x86 apps on ARM
No kidding. This was announced in 2011, right?

NT was available on Intel, Alpha, PowerPC, and MIPS chips. I'm surprised it was that hard to add ARM. Or is this something different?
Branch-specific test environments would allow regression testing to happen _before_ changes get merged (I've used Travis to do this). I would love to have this kind of test isolation in our CI environment.
Speed is very important in business. How much time would it take to estimate how much time it would take to analyze and estimate the management decision in question?
If the odds of success are anything less than .1, then buying at the current price is a bad idea. I agree with you that the odds are in fact less than .1 but it's just a guess - if somebody else thinks it's .5, well, who am I to say that they're wrong.

Pretty much any investment thesis involves guesswork at some point. That doesn't make investing irrational.
You remove the mic in your phone too? Or do you just assume that Android isn't always listening?
A lot of those moneyball decisions seem to have very marginal impacts, and I feel like the differences in team quality across the league were large enough that those subtle statistical advantages didn't matter very much. Moneyball only became a big thing after the luxury tax was implemented when a lot of teams were basically at parity in terms of player ability and small tactical advantages suddenly became meaningful.
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It has to be signed with Microsoft's key.
>They are uninterested in your view of reasonable governance. Reasonable people can and do disagree with things like net neutrality.

Really? On what grounds? Because I've literally not run into a single person, democrat or republican, who thinks net neutrality should go away.

*Mind you, I'm not personally friends with any executives from one of the big 8 companies that stand to benefit from it... but outside of them and shareholders I'm struggling to come up with the "reasonable" person who thinks this will be a good thing.
I drive a Scion xB, which has the aerodynamic efficiency of a toaster. When I bought it in 2005, the huge amount of bugs that the windshield caught was one of the few things I didn't like about the car.

Hello, fellow '05 owner! And yup, all I have to add is "me, too", because our experience has been identical.

As one last anecdotal data point to add to our VW and Scion, I keep a can of cleaner in the motorcycle tank bag to clean the helmet face shield. I used to buy stuff packs of three. Lately, I think I'm still on the can I bought three years ago. I used to also keep a little scrubby sponge in the tank bag for those extra stubborn bugs. I haven't used that thing in so long I don't even know where it's at anymore.
Could it be made illegal to store personal information of users? Or even just restricted to particular industries? How many services do you use that even need it?
> Admissions can become somewhat cutthroat

This is what I've heard about a lot of places that provide good higher education. I would be concerned in the US that college readiness correlates a little bit too closely to familial wealth.
I think I phrased that poorly. My point is that how much the government spends "on you" is not relevant to what your income tax rate should be.
I have the same experience. I'm using a mail-forwarding service, so I can't host it with FastMail. FastMail is my third mail provider I'm forwarding to, and I'm not aware of any missed e-mail with any of them this far. Then again I guess I wouldn't be :)
Do you have a smartphone in the house?

You know, that thing with a microphone and an always-on data connection.
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Out of curiosity have you tried using the Snips.AI integration in HA?
The issue is that ETH only can handle a certain amount of transactions per block (based on its block size). When the network gets overloaded, all of the potential transactions cannot be held in a single block and must be delayed until the next block, leading to higher fees for each transaction, giving it a higher priority and making it more likely to put in a block of a certain size. Same 'problem' as bitcoin; too many transactions are being fit into a finite space per block increasing competition to have your transaction in a block, but really it's just basic scarcity economics.
$ echo "help<command></command>" | socat stdio /var/run/hapee-lb.sock
$ echo "help<command></command>" | socat stdio tcp4-connect:127.0.0.1:9999

Seems a bit weird, there's no XML anywhere else. Wonder if it's a markup issue on the page.
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The difference is that Uber doesn't need a whole bunch of infrastructure to run the surge pricing program; they already have an app, surge is just another algorithm.

But toll lanes need infrastructure that needs to be constantly maintained. Your toll is paying for the times that the toll is not active. And now that the toll gates and whatnot are all setup, it will be much easier for a politician to expand their usage after a few years.

Aside from all that, we have a similar setup in Ontario, Canada. One of our major highways has a "hot" lane, which can be used for cars with 2+ people or by cars with a special sticker you pay monthly for. The problem is, all of the traffic we experience is around the interchanges and off ramps. All of the lanes move very well until you hit an interchange, where there is a flurry of lane changes and everything grinds to a halt. So you'll shave 5 minutes off your commute using the Hot lane, only to waste it all at the interchanges. Then, when you want to get off the highway, you have to sit in a line at the off ramp, and a line at the next few stop lights right after.

Toll lanes are just such a huge farce. It would be much more effective to tax companies that require in-office staff. You want people to drive to work just to sit at a desk and use a computer? Pay up. Use corporate tax to change the commute behaviour.
Your example is a reflection on counterfeiter and the person being deceived. That has nothing to do with the value of bitcoin.
I went to school in Germany and live in the US now. I think every system has it's pros and cons. The German education system is interesting, because it's different from other countries. However, if it wasn't for the hefty price of education (including how important it is what school district you are in) I would prefer the US education system overall.

In Germany it's easy to be put on one of the two lower tracks which lead to apprenticeships [1], because you didn't do well in primary school. At that point is harder (but still possible) to go to college. It also leads to segregation because immigrants who don't speak German at home are unlikely to do well in primary school.

[1] Calling it blue collar is a bit of misnomer here because you can also do apprenticeships in white collar jobs, even software engineering.
This shouldn't be a problem. Backing up a securely stored key is not a great solution. Instead you can generate a backup key that you provision everywhere as well, (the public part) but store completely offline.

Basically treat this the same as you would a physical 2fa token.
What they forgot to mention some of these services can't be used yet.

Many of their launches pages just lead you to a signup page... such as the transcription service...
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Real estate prices would go down in response to increased costs associated with ownership (namely inability to deduct interest and property taxes).

To illustrate the point, if the carrying cost (i.e. property tax) of real estate was extreme, say 90%, nobody would want to own property and the price would plummet. Losing the deductibility for interest and property taxes is nowhere near that extreme but the direction of the effect is the same.
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This is illustrative of the main problem I've run into discussing NN. Everybody has a different definition of what it is, and many are not even close yet they both get the mental satisfaction of "being on the team for a free net"

To be clear, I don't disagree with your post. I just chose it as an outlet to vent my frustration that language and words are so hard.
you can't talk about value without talking about supply
Except you are taxed equally for usage at 2am when there is a surplus of road space as you are for usage at 8am when there is a shortage of road space.
The research is clear it helps children. The controversy is, is it worth it. 99% of the time it is worth it.

> The fact you quote Autism Speaks is telling

Yes vaccines DON'T cause Autism. You say it does then your also into other pseudo-science and controversies. The science is clear vaccines don't cause autism.
Why is this Google's call to make? I thought YouTube was a web site/service and the web was open?
They were probably actively preventing them from releasing a YouTube TV app for the FireTV as well, I'm guessing.

I'd love to switch to YouTube TV (I've had MANY problems with PlayStation Vue, and Sling is decent, but missing some channels). They don't have a FireTV app, though. But frankly I'm ready to simply ditch my FireTV because of that alone. Throw in the fact that my FireTV is covered with ads now and it's kind of a no-brainer.