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The NYT article compares East Side Access and the Second Avenue Subway to the Line 14 extension project in the Paris Metro:

>... while the Second Avenue Subway cost $2.5 billion a mile, the Line 14 extension is on track to cost $450 million a mile.

The costs for the SAS, over 5 times more per mile than the Line 14 extension, are preposterous in this context.
Thanks for your anecdote. I have had friends beaten up and robbed in the Mission. I have a friend who lives in Bayview who had his windows shot out. My friend's friend was mugged in Glen Park BART station, she was punched in the face and the mugger grabbed her bag, no one did anything. My wife's friends had their phones stolen off their table at a Starbucks in Noe.
>I use an ad blocker, because otherwise the web is unusable.

This is extremely hyperbolic. Why not just, you know, not visit those websites if their business model is so abhorrent to you?

Do you feel entitled to something for nothing?
I read when I'm in transit or waiting for people

I made a promise to buy a book / e-book per week.
So I better make sure I finish it.

When I'm driving or walking from one place to another I'm listening to an audiobook and it is at 3x speed

I think if you're forced to read a lot of book, you'll come up with a system that works for you. Some of the advice people give over the internet might not work at least that was my experience
No, it's essentially a race on the number of users trying to get mined in the block.

There is a hard limit to the number of transactions that can fit in a block (1MB, this is the block size).

Users who want to get in the immediate next block will pay higher transaction fees to get in it. This raises the average transaction fee and causes others to raise their fee, too.
Really surprised this did not get more comments.
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I think most, if not all, stands that accept the DD coupons can draw regular filtered water through their fountains if you ask. The DD coupons (it's the coupon that gets you the drink; you need the wristband to redeem the coupon) are only good for product that is not individually inventoried (fountain drinks, coffee, hot chocolate; nothing bottled).

Pro tip: you get the DD promo by signing a pledge sheet at Guest services at any concourse, but the coupons are only accepted at a few designated stands (on Club level, only the stand by section 230).

There are also some water fountains -- in Club, above section 202, by the bathrooms at 210 and 220, and the group area around 231, IIRC).
Can you stop spamming this? This isn't reddit.
I interpret this as -- he's thinking about cashing out, but doesn't want it to look like that. So now his "morals" are kicking in. They weren't kicking in through all these whitepaper-only ICOs were they?
There are 100 MB of transactions which want to get in the next block:
https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=all

But the block is only 1 MB. So 100 times more transactions want in than there is space, thus you need to pay $10 to secure a place for your transaction.

Fewer transactions or increased block size would decrease the transaction fee.
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Pressing the Side Button to Confirm Payments on iPhone X
I almost never find her bargain bin brand of post-libertarian NRx/UACC reactionary drivel insightful (who the hell unironically retweets kantbot and those #rhetttwitter teenagers), but to each their own I guess.
I'm a big believer in a clutter free work environment so I only have what I NEED.

So:
1. 27in monitor

2. MBP stand for my laptop which I use as a second screen

3. Matias mechanical keyboard

4. Wireless mouse + mousepad

5. Coffee mug

Occasionally I pull out a notepad, but I've found that using the Notes app on my laptop works better for me.
>> You can easily build a comparable one for 1/4 of the price.

Ok please show us the laptop that is 1/4 of the price of the same-specs MBP. Or how one could build one.
A visual ARM emulator
Just to note, booting linux like GaliumOS on Chromebook is not straight forward as enabling developer mode; it causes hardware damage in certain devices due a depthcharge issue.

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Support/Braswell
It wasn't that it was slow for me; I got i9 with 64 ram and things speed up tremendously from my last i7... the huge problem is insecurity!

Lots of website have no control over what ads are popping up! Drudge Report is probably the most frightening! All the time popups of "outdated" Adobe Flash (that I dont have at all), installation of recent updates of Windows 7 (even tho Im on Win 10)... recently I had some sort of ajax script that actually literally installed extension in Chrome (!!) I believe somehow my mouse was hijacked to perform a click action. Unbelievable!

Im fine with Ads so long as someone is properly vetting!!
it already is
Good thing nobody can tell when the hot wallet starts to run low, otherwise they might know the exact moment when the keys need to come together.
I would have fired him after two warnings. He is negative productivity.
This reminds me of the good old days of trading in MapleStory. I recall spending many hours buying particular items from lower skill level areas and selling them at a profit in areas where they are in demand. It was such a fun game to play, but trading was the most interesting part of it for me.
Right. I graduated from City College, which is located at 137th, basically Harlem for those that don’t live in NYC. There have been robberies and rapes near the school (145th and St. Nicholas Park), but generally, I felt very safe when I was a student there (I have walked north of Harlem and south to Columbia by myself before too). Crimes will never cease to happen, so one can only wish not not becoming that unfortunate target. However, the violence in the old days is pretty much non-existence. Some shootings every so often, but most arrests are probably robberies, sexual crimes and illegal drugs possessions.

Housing in Queens and Brooklyn are becoming less affordable. Then business owners like Chinese resturants and retail franchises are moving in to snatch the new population. The 1,2,3 trains are convenient to travel from and to Manhattan, so ideal for university students and young singles.
Who ultimately pays a tax burden does not depend on who sends the check to the government; it depends on the relative elasticities of supply and demand. The tax paid by people, wealthy or not, comes either out of consumption or investment. When people consume goods and services, the labor and materials used to produce them cannot be allocated to produce goods and services for other people. The same is not true of investment, which is why you want to tax consumption and not investment.

If the government taxed 90% of Warren Buffett's wealth, Warren Buffett wouldn't consume less, he would just have less investments. The government would have more money, but if it spent the money on giving food to the poor, the food would have to come from somewhere, and it wouldn't be from Warren Buffett whose consumption was already modest. If the tax doesn't reduce your consumption, someone else is paying the tax, not you. Taxing 90% of Warren Buffett's wealth and spending it on welfare programs wouldn't make the poor better off, it would mainly make capital markets less efficient (which would make everyone, including the poor, worse off).

Capital income does make Warren Buffett richer if he makes wise investment decisions that make markets more efficient, but as long as he doesn't consume the gains it changes nothing, and as soon as he or his heirs consume the gains they would be taxed by a consumption tax.

Income taxes have the same issues as wealth taxes, so you want to tax only consumption. And a tax on estate is just an additional tax on future consumption by heirs. It makes no sense to tax future consumption at different rates than current consumption, so it's better to just increase the consumption tax than to add an estate tax.
Charlie Lee of Litecoin just cashed because people were whining about him promoting his own coin, and allegedly he couldn't take it.
Ads targeted at women almost universally target their vulnerabilities in subtle ways, many of which are culturally cultivated and manipulated by marketers. Consider how the food industry plays on weight anxiety: "light", "guilt free" (why should anyone feel guilt over eating?), "sinful", "temptation", "fear X". All the foods are "out to kill you" or at least make you "fat and undesirable". It's all manufactured, alarmist fear-mongering designed to sell stuff. It works. Very few people see through this game.

This then extends to other industries. Chocolate is heavily marketed to women as a "decadent" "indulgence" for those times you want to let loose the strictures of life. So the diamond industry cooks up a way to sell crap brown diamonds specifically to women as a way to treat themselves with "chocolate" ice. No man required so you can express your feminism in full force. Go girl power!

This changes the very language we use. Decadent no longer has its original meaning of severe depravity any more because advertisers co-opted it in the mid-70's to apply whenever you eat a candy bar. Now it's just a bon mot women's pulp lit. sprinkles in every few paragraphs regardless of the topic.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=decadent+choco...
I've started noticing this from Google, among others. Tracking scripts are no longer explicitly named as such, or they're prefixed with some slug or GUID alongside the legitimate "functional" scripts.

It's getting to a point where you need to actively monitor every network request the site makes. It's despicable and I have nothing but ill will for the data scientists, software engineers, and product managers who participate in this.
Of course it is, if it can't deliver the current the phone requires after some usage it's not fit for purpose. It's BECAUSE every single battery starts to go bad that they should have put in a battery that will work after a couple of years of degradation.
Got an example of an image made this way? I’d wager it probably looks like crap.
I went to a professional soccer game in a large stadium in South America a couple of years ago in the middle of summer. It was really hot and all I wanted was water, but you couldn’t buy water at the concession stand. The only drink they offered was Coke.
FWIW, I’ve asked for plain water in the past and been told they cannot do it. Have you been able to get them to serve you anything other than soda?

Good point on the coupon/wristband distinction.
So you had a bad device. I am using a one plus device for last 2 years with none of your issues. I have friends relatives using even older devices. Not all devices are same.
You just gotta make sure you get the $20 from someone you detest and then you have $10 profit.
Except that's exactly how Android phones solved that problem - removable backs. Want a bigger battery? Get one that comes with a bigger back plate, like the Galaxy S5 had. Also, before anyone mentions it, you can do this and still have an IP67 rating.

Apple has teams of engineers working on marginally different hues of silver/gray. They can spare a few to figure out a case lock mechanism that doesn't detract from aesthetics. For example, you still need a SIM tray, so hide the latch to release the edge in there. They could be crazy and follow the Android phones that use a combo sim and SD card tray to allow Apple users to add more storage, but then they couldn't charge a 500% mark up on 128GB of flash memory.

I don't understand people that give Apple a pass on clearly bad decisions that could be remedied by a simple 'Advanced' section in the settings or an almost imperceptible compromise on aesthetics (at least way less perceptible than a monster screen notch or the iTumor case).
Incorrect, Uber is in more cities outside of North America than within it.
Some lack one or both. It's optional.

A fountain has no inherent need for non-carbonated water unless they serve uncarbonated drinks like orange or punch.
ChromeOS does a great job of providing the hardware interface layer.

Furthermore, connecting to a projector on ChromeOS is way less fiddly than fighting with xrandr. (n.b. I've used Fluxbox as my WM since ~2002. Newer interfaces in the Ubuntu strain of things are probably easier/smarter.)
SF has the highest per-capita property crime rate in the country among top 50 cities: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/us/san-francisco-torn-as-...

You can't use a personal anecdote to suggest SF is at least as safe as NYC or other major urban centers. "Anecdotally" I saw way more broken glass on sidewalks from car break-ins, saw several phone jackings in broad daylight, and, at the same day, remember wondering to myself on many days why I hadn't seen a single police officer/car on my regular commute...
Do you read news at their websites frequently? at least I enable adblock to stop their autoplay videos. It's pretty bad sometimes.
Not all laptops are thus compromised. My HP Elite X2 G1 1012 matches the Surface physical attributes and yet has a user-replaceable battery (and screen, and m.2 SSD.)
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There was a major gang bust at the houses on Amsterdam Ave in Harlem a couple years ago. Plenty of bad shit still happens uptown. But it definitely is concentrated in pockets now, and it's definitely less bad than it was even a few years ago.
When reading we’re free to skip and skim. Vinyl, VHS, Cassette, CD, and DVD allow us to seek or rewind as we like. When I buy a PC, I can install any software I choose to. When browsing the web, I can accept or reject any served content.

That’s not entitlement. Entitlement is the sentiment that users somehow owe advertising or web firms anything.
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I think he agrees that there is some value in some entertainment. But not as much value as some claim there is.

Most entertainment, even the ones which pretend to have some "meaning" is just consumed for dopamine rush.
> That is that you can call a cab and it will pick you up and you will have an understanding of the price you will pay.

LOL you must never have taken a cab ride pre-Uber. Your two assertions are the two main reasons why Uber and Lyft exist.

> In an Uber/Lyft ride hailing system cabs can only be hailed via an app, and will only accept the most profitable rides.

You don't know how the Uber app works.
It's also long enough for kids to grow up entirely after the ban on tetraethyl lead in gasoline. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615
Grown men nowadays are only given toys to work with. Where is the revolutionary fire?
Just go spec it out for yourself. Im not doing a homework assignment for you to prove that Apple fleeces it's customers. Especially in regards to a discussion on how Apple quality has dropped so significantly over the past 8 years.
My guess is that iOS 11 is much more to blame for slowdown that users are experiencing, myself included. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to be resolved -- even if I replace my battery for $30, my iPhone 6 will still be worse than it was in August.
They do have tech workers in multiple locations in Germany. At least one of them is almost only tech, but small.

But you are right, that those are not big major tech offices like the three mentioned. So most engineers in Europe would still be working out of London, Zurich or Dublin.
I found this drop to look crazy and couldn't find the source so I did some digging and confirmed it

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fWUKgbmXNe1js778gaJn...

(see source in data sheet)
Sounds like a promising project to back?
TV scene pirates use machine learning to automatically cut advertisement breaks from ripped shows before they get uploaded.
> Them? To whom are you comparing me?

Well...

> I just don't see this issue the way others do.

Maybe the others you're referring to.

You still jumped to the conclusion, you provided no reasoning to support the (not widely accepted) ideas that single-payer health insurance and subsidized housing will make people less desperate in a way which affects opioid addiction dramatically.
Great test, thanks.
Not all of it goes to miners, unless it's a send/receive between individuals.

If you want to do any trade with the currency, you have to put it on an exchange, and everytime you put it on (deposit) or take it off (withdraw) the exchange, fees are charged (vary from exchange to exchange, and from currency to currency).
Where can I buy an iPhone with a removable battery? I didn’t realize I had that choice.
less and less phones with replaceable batteries among flagship ones.
The other day I tried to report someone who was blatantly trying to sell me a stolen computer. I was disappointed to find that they don't maintain any kind of database of serial numbers of lost and stolen electronics.

The implication is that, if you do lose something or have it stolen, there is no way for the police to help you get it back.
God no. If I wanted a heavier thicker phone, there are plenty of battery cases that do the trick. Apple's is excellent.
"Late January" is 1 month from now
The cost is increasing because more people are trying to use Bitcoin, but it has an artificial limit to the number of people who can use it per second. Thus, with increasing demand, and static supply, the fees rise roughly quadratically over time.

To reduce the fees, we need to remove that artificial 1mb limit. Here's the main approach to that right now: https://www.bitcoin.com/info/what-is-bitcoin-cash
More than 100 megs according to this, which also shows the fee strata:
https://dedi.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/more/#24h

The good news is that at current volumes, the miners are making progress clearing the lower fee transactions. In the next day or two we should start clearing transactions at < 100 satoshis/B.

That's one way that average / median transaction fees are misleading in Bitcoin: people paying much lower fees are making transactions, but traders and those moving large sums seem to be willing to over-pay to move their money.

In some ways the minimum transaction fee processed is more instructive than the median, because it shows how much did one have to pay to get processed, vs how much dod people in general overpay to ensure their payment was processed.
Levi's Stadium in particular has horrible traffic accessibility (you can get there easily until the 4th quarter but good luck getting out of the area quickly afterward).

All pedestrian crossings to/from the stadium compete at ground level with all other traffic (cars, buses, light rail). They spent over US$1 billion on the building but wouldn't even consider things like pedestrian overpasses (which Candlestick Park had for 50 years before).

I actually pointed that out to the Legends people and 49ers people as soon as I saw the first model.
I comment on this fairly often, so I saw no reason to do a long write up and lots of reasons not to. If you are curious as to my thinking on the matter, you can just ask rather than taking swipes at me.
i don't really follow those circles well so maybe i'm giving her too much credit. what does UACC stand for?
That is my hypothesis, as they were gentrified out of NYC they moved to places like Newark.
Graft, inertia, and incompetence.
They have transferred the poor off the streets to prison cells.

Super harsh sentences for serial small crimes, drug dealing, etc.

You remove any young male who has potential to become a criminal from the street and all you’re left with is white collar crime.

Unpopular facts.
China is moving unbelievably fast on electric vehicles.
Their government is extremely motivated to stamp out air pollution, and there's nothing really stopping them.
It's easy to spend lots of money on infrastructure when there is a rocket-ship economy and no political opposition.

The US is behind the rest of the world on vehicle electrification for a couple good reasons (very cheap gasoline and long distances between cities) and a few crappy ones (anti-science Republicans and large rent-seeking auto companies).
> in particular young males without many skills who also tend to commit crime

> A big, time consuming engaging hobby appearing that young males take to with great enthusiasm appearing as games got cheaper and better.

I wasn't even thinking along those lines, my thought was more about the "violent" part of "violent video games" - that the games acted as a sort of stress release valve, helping people with their self-control when it matters.
I recall reading of one Unix implementation that when executing /bin/false noticed that the spawned shell (/bin/false) had failed (because that’s what /bin/false does, by design) and helpfully launched /bin/sh so you could debug it. True or false (pun intended), this is why I use /bin/true to stand in as a shell in this capacity.
I've always thought that it's a shame that CPU vendors haven't opened up microcode programming to the public. To extend a silly graphics metaphor: it's as if, right now, CPUs ran Vulkan, but we could only program them with Unity.

As the speakers in this talk point out, open microcode would allow extending the CPU with brand-new capabilities, including not only high-performance instrumentation frameworks, but also, I think, nearly-free ASAN-like and CFG-like runtime safety checks.

Is security a reason not to open the microcode architecture? I don't think so. I know this talk happened at CCC, but I don't see the security consequences of open microcode being severe: if you're in a position to install a microcode update, you've already won.*

Backward compatibility? Sure. Microcode can change generation-to-generation, or even stepping-to-stepping. Public microcode programs would have to be written with the understanding that no stability is guaranteed. But you can still get a lot of useful work done that way --- for example, people write Linux kernel drivers all the time.

Trade secrets? Eh. Does it really matter whether a processor has 32 or 64 internal temporary registers? I'm not sure what secrets proprietary microcode might protect against an adversary that has a dedicated chip design team and electron microscopes.

So, yeah, this talk represents impressive work, but none of this work should be necessary. Then again, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. We can't even get Intel to ship a processor without the damn management engine.

* Granted, microcode backdoors have the virtue of being subtle and easy to hide. This paragraph doesn't apply if microcode updates let you break the processor's internal security model, but it sounds like, from the talk, that microcode obeys security invariants.
In the U.S, public transportation has the same problem as healthcare. That problem is that spending more money on it won't make it better since the costs are already many times higher than any other country. However, there is always a demand that to get better public transportation and healthcare we must continue to raise taxes. Finding out what is so expensive and fixing that never occurs to anybody, probably because it's some well connected person's cash cow.
Has it been solved as predicted?

“Now, it looks as if he and his colleagues have cracked it. Thanks in part to crowdsourced computers and smartphones belonging to over a million volunteers, the scientists have figured out how to choose the building blocks required to create a protein that will take on the shape they want.”
It's just a 30 minute video at 2x play speed. :)