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They're < $3 shipped on aliexpress. Shipping is slow, but that's cheap enough to just have a few on hand for when you need them.

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=wemos+d1+min...
Are you counting wireless ISPs? They're not a viable alternative at scale.
Exactly. Also, many execs do wrong comparisons on the score. (Comparing across industries, for example)

The real lessons are in the verbatims.
Content Delivery Network

Anti-lock Braking System

Both are exactly what they sound like
In case you don't want to watch the video, there's a free automated transcript

https://scribie.com/transcript/7aaafeae86da402d8f7b4bfc68ea8...
From what I can tell, journalism has continually improved since the founding of the Republic. It's useful to correct unrealistic expectations we have about it: that its practitioners are selfless volunteers serving out of civic obligation. It's a profession like anything else, with good members and bad ones, almost always under the same masthead.

I think it would be tough to argue that modern institutional journalism is somehow worse than that of, say, the World War 2 era.

Crichton's "amnesia effect" is a vivid example of how people get this wrong. Are newspapers wrong about Palestine? Quite often. But it's not for the same reason that they're wrong about show business. Show business is a specialized beat with specialized reporters and not every newspaper has someone dedicated to it. Everyone understands that about reporting Palestine, but fewer people understand that about show business, and so Crichton sounds incisive when really he's just making a banal observation: different journalism outlets are strong on different topics.
Can't you simply spoof your email account?
I started using it 1-2 years ago to decrease the amount of data Google has on me. I still return to Google for some things (unit conversions; searches where DDG's results are unhelpful [Google seems to be more effective when you're trying to buy things]; certain time-based searches DDG doesn't support). When you're looking for a particular meaning of something with multiple meanings or information about a food but not recipes, etc. sometimes one engine will be more effective than the other.

DDG is now my default engine on my phone (where I pretty much never return to Google) and at home, but I still use Google at work.
> A fancy app with a button

Yes but that app is branded Uber/Lyft, and while building an app with a button is easy, when was the last time you tried searching Bing or DuckDuckGo because Google Search was returning nonsense?

There's also question of mindshare; getting people to install an app and create an account is difficult enough, never mind B2B business contracts, such as uberpool being a recognized WageWorks commuter benefit, that are business-y to replicate.

There have been many solid competitors (both hardware and software) to the iPhone, but there's still only one Apple.
I work as a consultant to PE companies as a source of cash income while doing other entrepreneurial stuff. Much of this work involves pre-deal commercial diligence and/or post-deal portfolio company strategy review. In the context of this type of work, which often involves formal customer / partner interviews, I think NPS is actually a very useful metric.

For sure, NPS has its limitations. Broadly speaking, I think it's a bad metric for something like asking random strangers how much they like their iPhone. But if you're trying to figure out the strength of, for example, an ERP software company's customer franchise, NPS is really useful, for two reasons:

1. When you're talking to people who know a product well, and you're talking to them in a professional context (e.g., a scheduled 15-minute interview that is part of their work day), they tend to be thoughtful about the 0-10 rating.

2. The follow-up question traditionally used in NPS surveys, "What could [company] do to make that score a 10 instead of [number]?" almost never fails to provide valuable feedback. I believe this is because of the way the question is set up: first the respondent is asked to provide a broad indicator of their customer satisfaction, and then, with that number identified, they're asked for details as to why they chose that number. I have no background in psychology but I think it's pretty intuitive that this question-flow focuses the mind and prompts people to provide insightful constructive recommendations.
And yet I'm still rocking my $350 Oneplus after two years.

Future proofing and spending exorbitant amounts of money do not necessarily have to go hand in hand.

It's ok to admit you spent the apple premium because you like apple phones.
Why is it ironic? Isn't it simple default that there are fewer successful people in most commonly used metrics like financially, socially, culturally etc? So if a women is successful they will have less mates to choose from.
> As demanding and dangerous as poorly regulated manufacturing workplaces can be, they tend to be no more demanding and no more dangerous than agricultural work.

Sometimes changes in climate can also lead to agricultural work simply becoming impossible/unprofitable, thus forcing rural labor to move to the cities, looking for work which isn't impacted by the climate.

At least that's what happened in Syria [0], the sad part is that the final outcome wasn't all that unexpected [1].

[0] https://www.irinnews.org/feature/2009/09/02/drought-driving-...

[1] https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08DAMASCUS847_a.html
> really-existing capitalism involves co-opting local power structures (parliaments, legislatures, dictatorships, puppets, etc.) to protect your cartel.

I grew up in a communist country and guess what: politicians co-opted local power structures for their personal benefit. They drove the good cars, had the nice houses at the lakes and hard (= Western) currency. This is the case for (AFAIK) every single "socialist" state.

The only difference was that in socialism, corruption was not done for the benefit of a company but for an individual.

Do you really think that once the economic system changes, they (= we) are all suddenly better people?

It's the power itself that is corrupted and it doesn't matter how or by whom or in what system, the end result is the same.
> Cryptocurrencies offer the possibility to fund the development of decentralized software using micropayment [while plausibly avoiding law enforcement sanctions]

Just spelled out the specific conditions where crypto currencies are relevant as opposed to any of the other existing crowd funding platforms.
Really? I was recently looking for business accounts at the big 4, and I saw that after a minimum number free transactions, any transaction has a fee (cash or not).
>Please list the occasions this has happened.

Milo Yiannopoulos advocates for practices that would literally kill people, in addition to advocating for pedophilia and getting very close to Nazi talking points.

>Leftists and Rightists interpret the same information completely differently

Good thing I'm a centrist.

>What do you make of this:

Completely irrelevant. This has nothing to do with what we're talking about. However, I feel just the same as allowing right-wing extremists.
"I'm curious about the long-term genetic impact of monogamy vs polygamy."

I think you might be overlooking the fact that women can and do have sex with other men than their husbands.
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The US enacted descriminatory and racist immigration policies which they still have now.
Pew pew SH

SH is shell.
Concur. I've played with the ODroid C2, Beaglebone Black, and the three "full flavor" Raspberry Pi models. The RasPis have, far and away, the best supportability. The ODroids are great when they work - love that GigE, but they aren't maintaining an OS distribution with the same care and man-power that Raspbian is getting.
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I think what you'd want here is for the tactile click to be at the actuation point. My understanding is that many or most mechanical keyboards today can't claim this.

Or maybe there is some optimal separation a key should have between the actuation point the tactile click point to account for the latency of the human's nervous system, which would do an even better job of reducing the effects of latency than if the two events were at the same point?
Three systems treated the same, have different profiles.
PG profile was low enough, the benching had to be altered, to get the results that they were expecting (or the reader to be expecting). If it was a technical implementation issue, why wasn't it done right the first time? Probably hubris, in an obvious case of tweak the testing methodology until you get the result you wanted.
For balance, it's worth pointing out that many law-enforcement agencies now use the term "sex trafficking" to describe cases that are merely prostitution. This case appears to be no exception. Further reading about this case by Elizabeth Nolan Brown in Reason Magazine:

http://reason.com/archives/2016/09/09/the-truth-about-us-sex...
Good, former EMT and Paramedic for busy metropolitan city here. Your exorbitant costs are subsidizing the homeless, system abusers, and illegals who can't be billed. 90% of the calls we were dispatched to were not acute emergencies. And 90% of those calls were people of the lower socioeconomic demographic systematically abusing medicaid.
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Moving government jobs out of these mega cities. This is mentioned in the article as something Beijing planned to do.
US should also move some jobs out of DC and into a cheaper area that needs a job boost.
My aunt broke her shoulder while travelling in the US and had to fly back to Ireland to get it properly treated after an initial x-ray. She would have been ruined financially otherwise.
I think it's a huge positive development that there's a reference implementation as well, in go. At least helpful for evaluation, possibly for a production implementation also.
Thanks for the link, I will definitely get in touch with them. Paying for the equipment isn't the issue I don't think, it's the expertise and looking for.
Note that paramedics make relatively little and are on a volunteer basis in many areas.
I wish parents raised children because they love their children, instead of treating them like human cattle.

I wish that in-laws were looking to maximize lifelong success of their grandchildren by the selection of the character, aptitudes, and excellences of his wife.

A man who is not a coward and not a weakling should find a wife who is better than him, in many ways, who forces him to be his best self and grow in capabilities even when it is painful. He would never give himself so much power over her identity and strength as one gets by "buying" her.

This makes a culture of rape. If the woman is a commodity and her "no" or any other word or personal desire is, in nearly every other context, a doormat to be walked upon then it makes the "valley" between a meaningless no in every other context and the forcing upon her the meaninglessness of a no in a sexual context an inconsequential crack in the ground. Her "no" should always be heard, and that only comes when she is treated as a human, not as a commodity; that only comes when her voice is always heard and valued as much as every other voice.
I am a chinese and lived in Beijing for more than 25 years, i have the same feeling with you about how ridiculous it is to compare the hutong with Indian slums and many other wrong and tendentious statements. I will explain in another reply to that guy.
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That's naive, the wages they're paid are what people are willing to pay them. Most are paid illegally so setting a minimum wage won't really help, and even if the minimum wage was followed, it surely wouldn't provide for a reasonable existence in an expensive major city which attracts migrants.

If you raise the minimum wage high enough so that it provides for a liveable wage in a major city and are able to enforce it, then the amount of people willing to pay migrants for work will collapse and the migrants will stop coming to the city.

So you either accept the conditions and wages the migrants are being paid, or you eliminate the very reason migrants travel to cities in the first place.

I want everyone to live in comfort, but it's much more complicated than "just open all the borders and raise minimum wage".
The height of government writing would be Rachel Carson. She's best known for Silent Spring but her Sea books are just as good. Much of her writing was published by the GPO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson#List_of_works

But as for writing advice, the CIA isn't so bad.

Thinking and Writing: Cognitive Science and Intelligence Analysis

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

Also, the earlier Bestiary of Intelligence Writing.

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000619161....
I had never heard of either of those two technologies but I would definitely do some googling now, thanks for the tip.

I would rather avoid a 4G hotspot attached to my wheelchair for a couple of reasons, chief among them is the data costs would be really high. If I were to extend my home Wi-Fi network I've already paid for my Internet connection, I'm just making my home Wi-Fi network WAY BIGGER than it was intended to be. :-)
> Free movement of human beings should be a human right. Restricting immigration is nothing more than descrimination.

I agree free movement of sapients should match the ease with which capital moves. However, atoms and bits have different energy profiles, and hence different logistical tails. The logistical tail to support the marginal person moving into full citizenship benefits and rights of say, the Democratic Republic of Congo, versus say, Singapore, are vastly different. How would you propose to bridge this logistics gulf, which doesn't even address the cognitive and knowledge gulf of citizens from more impoverished nations moving into more prosperous nations with a higher societal- and culturally-expected baseline of cognitive abilities, skills, and knowledge? This has historically been a tough problem to crack at the developed nation side to achieve unrestricted immigration, hence why I suspect there is increasing emphasis upon improving the situation at the developing nation angle (a "rising tide" strategy).
I remember the first time I saw Node-RED I thought it was an April Fools-type satire product.

That feeling still hasn't left me.
I wonder how this compares to other unix systems, such as OpenBSD or various Linux Distros.
If we pick that as the default, then is it then not ironic that successful men (using financial metrics) have a larger option pool of mates?

I personally don't find either ironic, but rather a very clear difference between the genders in the correlation between financial success and dating. The really interesting part is the causes of this difference, and whom is driving it.
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Reminds me of the old "Fixing Solaris" file from the '90s (and the Fixing SunOS that was its forebear.)
Great point. Which raises the question: with billions of dollars on the line, why haven't all the miners switched at the drop of a hat to something more beneficial to them?
It's not totally out of the question but from what I can see it would be prohibitively expensive after a while, whereas an upfront cost for some low-cost networking hardware that would then get its Internet connection from my home router would be much cheaper in the long run. I think.
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You can get bare esp8266 boards from aliexpress for ~$1.20 per unit shipped from china. You'll have to solder slightly more, but if you're building things with these, this is the way to go.

I did my prototyping on the much nicer (more features added out of the box) esp8266 Huzzah from adafruit. Once I got the code and everything working, I bought a bunch of the cheap ones + the sensors and then went to town. You can manage a fleet of them with the mongoose os stack https://mongoose-os.com/ (note that the fleet management of 40+ sensors is a paid service, but all of the libs otherwise are free and oss).
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You said it like city slums are problems. To me it is not, it is a sign of "organic" growing cities. If I am allowed to take a startup metaphor. Slums are just tech debts. And apparently you didn't understand what the policy in the article means. Instead of enforcing "safe labor practice, minimum wage, vacation days", they simply enforce an upper limit of population. It is like to guarantee productivity you enforce your employee to produce x lines of code every day. Of course it won't work. And you just went way off topic.
You look ridiculous and arrogant to me. I am reluctant to write too much, it does not mean I cannot write well. I saw bunch of people like you, I assume you are a member from the vested interest groups of the CCP.
I still can read out the typical stupid arrogance of such people between the lines you wrote.
Adblockers are a racket, their business model involves asking advertisers to pony up protection money for exceptions

Want to show me where Gorhill asks advertisers to pony up money to be exempt from uBlock Origin?

>This is true, but adblockers don't care about fixing the user's problems.

This is one of the core design choices of uBO: use minimal resources
What an awful piece of blog spam advertisment. Posted by a green account called "goodsalary" no less.
Not a book, but I recommend as a starting point the Farnam Street blog: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/
There's a pretty important difference between humans and HVACs, which is the reason the two systems end up being very different.

You can always rip out the HVAC and put in a new, off the shelf unit with roughly the same specs (often better, because progress) at a fixed, known cost, and the customer will even often be happier if they end up doing that instead of repairs. If health care providers could trivially decide to euthanize and replace patients with expensive diseases, health care insurance would be as trivial as HVAC maintenance plans.
Nice! Is it always sent on Fridays?
I'd think it's agar.io or slither.io?
What is the historical evidence that Jesus Christ lived and died?
Node-RED is described as a tool for connectinh IoT devices with applications, but from a first glance it seems like a quite compelling If-This-Then-That alternative, even without IoT devices. Does anyone have experience using it?
The Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 (http://www.heltec.cn/project/wifi-lora-32/) and clones are a solid place to start if you want to investigate LoRa. Pycom (https://pycom.io) has several chips including one that does both LoRa and Sigfox.

Espressif also have a shorter distance but lower power option that uses WiFi tech called ESP-Now that is worth looking at: http://espressif.com/en/products/software/esp-now/overview
I use FST and RST (for FIRST and REST). I like them because they are short, mnemonic, and can be composed like CAR and CDR, e.g. CADADDR = FRFRRST (though I also believe that if you find yourself doing this you're almost certainly doing something wrong).
Right but was mainly replying to "unlike credit, there's are no fees associated with it so it's slightly better for the seller too." There are fees for handling cash payments too.
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I've programmed a lot in various dialects of Lisp, and I like car and cdr. Using names like first and rest might make a language more attractive to new users, but there is something to be said for designing at least some languages for experienced users rather than new ones, and it doesn't take much experience (a week?) for the words car and cdr to mean the left and right halves of a cons cell to you. And once they do, they're better than first and rest, because

1. They're shorter.

2. They're the same length, which means in practice that a lot of code lines up in a way that's easier to read.

3. They look similar to one another, which telegraphs that they're part of the same set of list access tools. Code that munges lists looks like it munges lists.

4. Their meaning is precise: car just takes the first element of a list. Whereas something called first might reasonably be expected to also give you the first element of a vector, or a string.

5. When you're operating on lists as trees, the names first and rest are actively misleading. The car and cdr are the left and right subtrees, not the first and rest of something.
Seems a decent approach for people already up to speed on Go language/tooling idioms.

Bash is definitely archaic, but personally I find it fairly sane and productive despite that. There's tolerable archaic and there's run-for-the-hills archaic.

Speaking of the latter, it's aversion to the ordeal that is getting anything done in the Windows Batch language (cmd.exe) that would drive me to seek out a nonstandard tool like mage.
Sorry in advance for this perhaps stupid question, but:

Which Sapiens exactly do you mean? Is it an article, a book, a documentary movie, a presentation such as a TED talk? Which is the full title?

I suppose you mean the book "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" (ISBN 978-0062316097), but I'm honestly not sure if I guessed correctly.
Polyamory (mentioned by captainmuon) is a universe away from what's described in the article.

I recommend reading the book "Sex At Dawn" for a thorough (if somewhat evangelical) dive into polyamory (as opposed to polygamy or monogamy), and how it has been used throughout human history and prehistory to construct stable societies with strong social bonds.
As an infosec guy having read some of the past discussions here — mostly about how infosec people are overzealous and don’t understand how disruptive these types of changes can be to existing installed bases — we do get it. The problem ends up being that improvements already take ages to work their way downstream, and not making them for compatibility reasons is a self-defeating prophecy. Those compatibility concerns will still exist next week, next month, and next year without actually working to address and reduce the problem. Often times they’re even worse as the installed base continues to grow and/or calcify around the existing setup.

The net result is that the compatibility argument, usually unintentionally, results in the status quo being kept for years. And when it already takes so long for these changes to make it out to users due to slow upgrade cycles, slow repackaging by downstream maintainers, slow uptake of new defaults, etc., with this same argument happening at each and every level… it often results in little to no progress over the span of years to common threats and pitfalls that are making people vulnerable today. That’s also why some of us try so hard to make sure developers get things right early on in their designs, since fixing it after the fact can be such an ordeal.

Of course, we understand the plight of maintainers not wanting to disrupt their users. It’s a difficult situation from both sides of the debate for sure. And also of course developing new features is more likely to make both users and developers happier than fixing security bugs is, at least in the short term. Just wanted to put the opposite perspective here as well since it felt underrepresented in previous discussions.

One thing to note, this isn’t necessarily indicative of my agreement with all of his analysis or belief that many of these are severe and need urgent fixing. This is more targeted at the meta-discussion around overzealous security people.