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Free market causes low quality.

What I meant in my comment was something else though - that strong individual liberty/independence causes difficulties in coordinating people on large-scale infrastructural projects. I.e. by the time you get through all the lawsuits and payouts, your new rail line takes 10x time to build and costs 20x the money a less liberal country would need to spend.
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>Information locked away on some local user's desktop also doesn't exist. If information isn't stored on a dedicated application-specific storage system staffed with people skilled in it's use and repair, then it's the exact same thing

Office365, GSuite. Small and medium businesses have options.
Hey, great efforts. But why don't you use browser's remote debugging? Same GUI for debugging website on mobile devices.
Paper isn't perfect. For one thing, it costs a hell of a lot more to store paper than to store digital files; we pay a huge amount to store files offsite. And paper used for ephemeral content is inherently wasteful.

Paper is slowly but surely going away. We just finished digitizing all our employee records; all records from now on will be digital. We used to print reams of reports and store them in filing cabinets, shelves, etc but we don't do that anymore. We aren't paperless but it's been a slow and steady march for decades now.
>Online ordering through Eaze is popular, which might drive the familiar winner take all online commerce market dynamic. A lot of people don’t care for the dispensary experience.

Anecdotally, I've seen a ton of small delivery services popping up in the Bay Area recently and doing well. Turns out selling weed is profitable.
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Whether or not the company has drivers, the data on who rides where and how much it costs to meet that demand via local driving pool is valuable. And Uber has by far the biggest data set on the planet. (They are active in more cities than Lyft.)
> Some heavy users care about certain strains and the like, but I have a feeling that for most people weed is weed.

As recently as 5-6 years ago, I would have agreed with this sentiment. These days, however I think this mentality is no longer a responsible one to propagate.

Today's cannabis is, in general, much more potent than it used to be. And now there are ways to consume very large amounts of this extremely potent product in a very short amount of time (concentrates, oils, edibles, etc). No matter how it's consumed, today's average cannabis user is getting a lot more in their hit than prior generations. This means that the difference between a sativa and indica is no longer necessarily a nuanced one.

Today people need to be reasonably sure that what they're getting will meet their needs, because for some one hit may send them spiraling in the totally wrong direction. A user with anxiety issues may need to entirely steer clear of sativas because they are known to cause anxiety attacks. But someone who needs to be around other people may need to avoid indicas because they are known to cause delayed responses and decreased social acumen.

This risk is compounded when people use one of these new, super-powerful 'hybrid' strains because their effects on the individual user are harder to predict than pure indica or sativa strains.

Legalization will put new emphasis on educating users on safe practices, harm reduction, and other such things. In the US, public schools teach harm reduction strategies with alcohol in its various forms, and one day it will probably need to do the same for cannabis.
>This can be done in a single day.

Only if you're lucky. Most of these exploits probably took weeks to find and analyze properly, it's not like one person found more than one a day. They're found because whole teams are working with the linux kernel at the same time and either happen by them or actively look for them.
Pretty sure that was one of several bugs I hit after release back in 2013, on Windows.
nit: an abstract should describe the obtained result
I'm 37 and am counting on effective anti-aging treatments to come along before I'm too old to work. Then I won't need to retire and can continue working for the man until the end of time.
>fused location system ... which can't exist without Googles involvement

That's kind of a cop-out though. It certainly could exist without Google's involvement if the location provider were a pluggable module within AOSP. microG does this - my phone supports the fused location API using Mozilla's location database instead of Google's. (There are other modules too, like a local database of cell towers if you're willing to dedicate some storage to it.)

Push notifications and Google login sure, but some of what's in the Play Services APIs should really be in AOSP, IMO.

EDIT: For that matter, you could even have the push provider available as a module too, even though Google's push service is the only one currently available.
Fairly sure that AoE2HD was only released on Windows.
Maybe they didn't need it in the first place, maybe the blockage is treated by the medication regemine and not surgery maybe it causes other complications so it's a wash, maybe just because it seems like the mechanism should 'just work' it doesn't.
https://tutorialzine.com/2016/03/the-15-best-material-design...
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That was at very end of the Gates era.
Except that batteries don't generate power.

The author goes on to point out that all of the power used by the train is indeed solar-generated, provided by a combination of onboard panels and a solar power plant at its station.
I wasn't making the argument that more people carrying == safety. I was countering the argument that more people carrying inherently means less safety.
Could someone please sum it up in a few sentences?

It requires adderall to process :)
PUBG is an example of how low quality releases can be profitable, not how "there's rarely a discernible difference in revenue between a high quality release and a buggy, low quality release"
>I like to think I'm a proponent of open source as I try to contribute but to be honest I don't actually think it really matters for Android to be independent of Google services because as far as I can tell, most people like Android with Google services?

People like Google services, but they're less enthusiastic about Google's data collection practices. My father, who is now retired from a career in semiconductor manufacturing and programming, was unaware of Google's practice of monitor users' credit cards [0] and was visibly uncomfortable when he was made aware of it. Google's terms of service were effectively changed in a manner that harmed him, but he has no recourse.

Google services are frequently useful, but let's not pretend that there are other good choices. Google offers their apps for free, and has immediate access to approximately one billion Android devices by mandating an app's inclusion. That's an impossibly high barrier for all but the largest companies.

[0]: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-a...
I'll surely get a lock of flak for this, but these kinds of bugs would be trivial to avoid in C++. All you need is to make the pointer arguments to syscalls be some other data type (say, user_ptr<T>) that performs an access-check upon conversion to a raw pointer. Then the compiler simply wouldn't let you bypass the access-check, so you simply could not forget to do so. That's the fundamental difference between C++ and C: one of them actually lets you write code that cannot contain many classes of mistakes, and the other, well, doesn't. For the life of me I don't understand the stubbornness behind sticking to the same languages and tools from decades ago.
> In which country did this happen?

In Norway. The cancer he had did not respond to chemo, and radiation therapy was out since it was small clusters spread all over the lungs. So there was really not much they could do.

To be fair, I was a bit surprised myself, but as I said I really appreciate that he got the chance to make his own choice in the matter.
You never produce a live event like that without spares, everything can and will break.

Your idea about the conference buying spares for everyone is interesting. Unfortunately for one, the financial incentives are just not setup in that way. Generally each booth is responsible for its own gear. Second, everyone needs different sizes, resolutions, mounts, color profiles, refresh rates, input types, network control options, blackout behavior, etc, etc.

Also, the discount vs extra expense of the gear is correlated to the cost of the gear. A $100,000 projector (mid-range) will obviously costly less to rent for three days, and is well worth it. With a TV though, they rental company is able to charge a premium because their customers simply will not purchase that type of equipment for all of the reasons above.
The naive solution would be to split the input data into the batches. Compress the first batch using a random model, then train a new model based on it. Compress the second batch using the model trained on the first batch and so on. Depending on your data structure, you can use a model trained on all the previous batches (or just N previous batches) when compressing the i-th batch.

This can be likely optimized (e.g. 7-Zip's arithmetical coder doesn't split data into batches, but rather uses exponentially filtered conditional probabilities that are instantaneously updated each time a new sample is processed). I'm no expert in RNNs, but my hunch is that you can adjust the model incrementally using backpropagation right after it processes another sample instead of completely retraining it.
This is so terrible. My heart goes out to his family.
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Again, I'm right there with you on the labor issue :).
Then yeah CSS grid is not right for that project. But not everyone is in that camp - and some are a bit of both. We have clients like yours and then many others that don't even need IE11 based on their stats. The money saved because we can use more efficient tech like CSS grid mean more time to add features!

(All our websites work in IE11 - they're just allowed to be "visually different from the approved designs" - it's a pretty good compromise for many clients!)
Are any? What kind of double blind business experiments have taken place?
Since you picked a gaming example, I would like to present the idea that in gaming the opposite is true.

If you have a live game that you intend to last a long time, it’s extremely important to establish a reliable release cadence that the players can depend on.

Our company first released our game in 2012. After release we didn’t know how important this is. We just kinda made updates and released them when we finished them.

The player numbers never went above what we had at release. For a few years our numbers were pretty flat. We would have up releases and down releases but we never broke our initial numbers.

Then we changed to a cycle of having a release every 3 months.

This was a massive improvement. Most players won’t keep playing your game continuously forever, but if they always know that there will be a thing to come back for, and when that will be, they will stop playing before they are burned out with a plan to come back.

Suddenly our numbers grew with every release. Each 3 month cycle saw a large percentage increase over the previous one.

After a few years of that our game is massively larger than it was at release, and it’s still growing with each subsequent release.

I’m not saying that it’s okay to release a buggy game, you have to scope each release so that you can do it on time without being too buggy. What I am saying is that the release schedule is actually really really important.
I fiddled with disabling 3rd party scripts a lot, but the problem are inline scripts on some pages. They detect adblock that way and serve a cookie which if detected by the server translates all 3rd party links to first party like a proxy which makes this technique useless - check e.g. idnes.cz - go to this site with an adblocker, reload the page multiple times and check cookies for adb and adb.key. I mean sure, you can disable cookies for the domain but it would be easier if I could just run my own script and disable everything else.
I'm certainly not endorsing the longer-term development of the USSR following the civil war and am no fan of Stalin. I think it's unfair to characterize them as gangsters in their earlier period since their seizure of power has to be weighed against the casualties of World War 1, which was horrific.

People seem to forget that ~18 million people died and >20 million people were wounded in that conflict - understandably since we have far more footage of WW2 and subsequent conflicts compared to a rather hazy conception of trench warfare and primitive tanks for WW1. Compared to this the Russian revolutions of 1917 were near-bloodless affairs. High estimates for the Red Terror in the lead up to the Russian Civil War are about 200,000 (100k is more common), a small number in that historical context, but worse because of the number and nature of the atrocities committed.

On the other hand, the White Terror to which it was a response claimed some 300,000 lives but nobody seems to care about that, which is a pretty weird double standard if you ask me. Perhaps this is because people conflate the Red Terror with the later events of the Stalinist period rather than looking at it in its contemporary context.

Unfortunately, Putin is back to praising Stalinism. A free, democratic Russia would be really interesting.

On this I completely agree, but I have to note that the West's response to the emergence of a somewhat free and democratic Russia after the collapse of the USSR was to set it up with a rudimentary market economy and milk it for profit, while keeping defense budgets in the West at about the same levels (until the early 2000s, when they almost doubled). I think Putin's rise is a direct result of our failure to invest in helping Russia to build democratic institutions.
Sprites in a 3D game look horrible for most objects: buildings, characters, terrain. Sprites are typically used for particle effects, grass, or objects that are far away. The latter is often used a performance optimization.
Even assuming that there is a genetic component to iq, you’re assuming that iq is strongly correlated with success and that the iq difference from genetic differences is meaningful.
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CSS grid can do this! Sure not as freedom as a JS implementation but its good enough in 95% of scenarios in my experience! https://codepen.io/balazs_sziklai/pen/mOwoLg (not my code - just one of the examples on codepen)
> I would have found that while my scale tells me that I am about 86 kilograms on Earth, I would have weighed 8.6 trillion kilograms on this neutron star.

Kilograms are a measure of mass, not weight. Pounds would be a more appropriate unit there.
I'll cut in rudely with my own reply.

Sharing files is unbelievably inconvenient. Sharing files to my mum in the other room involves copying files to a USB drive and moving them manually, after I reformat a USB to ntfs or fat32. It doesn't matter that both of our computers are on a LAN because by default we have no pre-existing convenient ways to share files. With her being on Windows and me being on GNU/Linux, I'm not even sure which program I would pick if I could install one. For anyone that isn't in USB drive proximity, I have to brainstorm a solution every single time I want to share a file for every person I want to give it too. This is all despite the fact that theoretically, there are a million different ways that we could share a file.
Do not think using in dev mode owns you up to any more security issues than and other desktop os. You can also use gnu/Linux without but you are limited as have to use a fake Chroot.

Ideal will be when Google releases the KVM work they have been doing that gives you gnu/Linux without having to use a fake Chroot or put in dev mode.
If the stats are true then the whole internet ecosystem is at risk. Just look at where the big internet services get their money. It is all advertising. If the ad impressions are bunk then eventually advertisers will pull their budgets due to declining sales or adjusting their ad budgets.

Also consumers are getting smarter by using ad blockers.

The only thing left is these schemes making the illusion that real people are watching.
Hello, I have also lost karma points on this subject. I also feel that Microsoft had a very negative effect on the progress of computer science during many years but it is very difficult to convince other generations. There were many positive and negative effects. To grasp the global effect, you need to have lived all the progress of the previous years before Microsoft and you need to have followed all the commercials fights to eradicate concurrence (dr dos, stacker, borland c++, ...).
> As for online ordering, yeah, that’s going to be a thing.

If the Darknet is any indication (and according to High Times[0], it is), you're right about this. Cannabis is the most popular product sold on the various illicit online drug marketplaces.

[0] https://hightimes.com/business/marijuana-is-the-most-popular...
Are banks actually using the XRP token, or just a private version of ripple technology? I can't get a clear answer on that.

Also is it possible for me to use ripple to pay for things today?
For the same reasons we want tobacco regulated, alcohol regulated, some food regulated, and drugs regulated. The fact is that it isn't parsley, nor does it have similar effect on our body. While consuming too much might not kill you, getting to work and finding that your supposedly non-high-bringing cannabis-based pain reliever certainly made you high isn't the sort of thing one wants to find. Alternatively for recreational use, I want what the thing says on the package and would be horribly angry if I wound up with the other dude's non-high-bringing smoke. I want my "weaker" strain to be just that, just like I'd not appreciate finding out my beer/wine/whiskey is stronger than is on the package.
How often can you use Bootstrap components unaltered? I'm either working on things where aesthetics are important enough that I'd have to write custom CSS for every component, or where aesthetics are so unimportant that stylistic coherence is irrelevant.

When I use things like Bootstrap it's as a scaffolding in the early stages of development before I write enough of my own CSS. Eventually then I've restyled all the Bootstrap components and I only keep it included to avoid spending 10 minutes re-implementing modals in JS.
I recommend Prandoni & Vetterli's coursera class on Signal processing[1].
They have really made an effort to teach this in an intuitive manner
instead of just throwing equations at you. This was the course where
I finally really understood Fourier transforms in a visual way.

The other course I recommend is the Audio Signal processing class by Xavier Serra[2]
This is a practical class with lots of hands on programming examples and introduction
to useful open-source software tools.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/dsp
[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/audio-signal-processing
Rule of thumb suggests that implementing AoE with Python today probably means PyAge2 runs about as well on a 4.5 GHz CPU as AoE2 did on a 266 MHz Pentium II. (not that well)
> Today people need to be reasonably sure that what they're getting will meet their needs, because for some one hit may send them spiraling in the totally wrong direction. A user with anxiety issues may need to entirely steer clear of sativas because they are known to cause anxiety attacks. But someone who needs to be around other people may need to avoid indicas because they are known to cause delayed responses and decreased social acumen.

What's the source for this, I'm genuinely interested? As far as I'm aware, this is more a marijuana folklore thing than an effect that science has verified.
The Commodore 64 Kernal is in a ROM so it is a fast boot for the OS, but the 1541 floppy drive is slow unless you use Fastload or Jiffydos, etc.

I think some C64 units had a spare socket for GEOS the GUI made for the C64.
Sure and you can use microG and other services on your Google free phone. I do agree that flashing firmware without Google services should be easier on devices, but the actors preventing that aren't Google (locked bootloaders are demanded by your American telcos like Verizon, DRM lockdown is demanded by the copyright lobby and SoC vendors refuse to release the kernel sources).

But in general, I don't get what your expectation is, that Google will spend millions developing an OS and then give it to competition or deliberately provide worse user experience than their main competitor?
St. Louisan here. What's really impressive about our murders is that basically ~95% of them take place within two small neighborhoods inside St. Louis city limits, which itself is but one small subsection of the metro area, which actually has a population hovering around 3 million. Those two neighborhoods, Dutchtown and North City, are impressively dangerous, so dangerous that even diluting them with the rest of the city still places us at the top of "most dangerous cities" lists year after year.
Except for the diet stuff, that is totally based on rock solid evidence, there's no possible way that they've been dead wrong for 50 years and are covering it up. Just because a high fat low carb diet improves every possible health marker doesn't mean it's healthy!
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ChromeOS supports kiosk mode for what it sounds like you want to do.

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3134673?hl=en
Use a Chromebook as a kiosk - Chromebook Help - Google Support
You are only talking about online advertising.

I am talking about large corporations like JPMorgan Chase (the subject of the article) that are on the internet, tv, radio, billboards, print, sponsoring conferences, sports teams, lobbying governments, thousands of physical locations and ATMs that people see every day, etc, etc, etc.

Even with a PPC ad that results in a conversion can you really attribute that sale to that particular ad?

For a large corporation no, because you can't tell what part of the sale is due to the corporation's existing brand that is built up through exposing the consumer to that brand thousands of times across multiple media.

Conversion rates for digital ads are only meaningful relative to the conversion rates for other digital ads. They do not not allow you to attribute a value to digital advertising relative to the rest of your ad spending.
Google Play Services are pretty much replaced by Baidus package there which pretty much does a lot of things the same way.
> If it implements an incompatible old version or proprietary standard with too many edge and not-so-edge case differences, that's another story. Anyone have experience?

It implements a much earlier draft of the Grid spec, with a number of differences. You can't just throw prefixes on and expect it to work. That said, it might be possible to map 99.9% of cases automatically and have it work.
Part of it might be generational. I'm older. Any time I'm in a meeting with a presentation, I print it out and make margin notes while the discussion happens.

This really increases my recall and understanding of what was discussed. I've tried digital equivalents of this and it just doesn't work the same for me.

I have noticed that this type of thing is more prevalent with people in my age group (40+). Writing things down, even if you throw it away right afterwards, seems to increase recall more than typing it.
There are numerous better options than a usb drive: Email, cloud storage, almost any messaging client, etc.