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As far as I know only pre-digital game consoles provide a competitive advantage with CRT TVs. In Melee, a fairly "fast" game in terms of inputs and timing, the Gamecube/Wii can produce noticeable input lag when connected to a digital display due to the step of converting the signal. Analog CRTs alleviate this and are thus preferred for practically all levels of competitive play. Senior members of the Smash Melee competitive community have been known to keep their own personal stores of CRTs, making organizing large events easier.

I've known a few people in the scene to prefer these Trinitron TVs specifically, usually because the colors "pop" more, making it easier to discern movement on the screen. Or so they tell me.

For more modern consoles that output digital signals, no conversion is needed and you will typically see LED TVs being used instead.

Interestingly, Smash Bros. Melee also has a PC-based online community, where Gamecube emulators are used to play a modified version of the game over the internet. On an emulator, it's actually possible to provide less input lag than on a real console + CRT.

http://smashladder.com

http://fastermelee.net
>"The half that is on the right is old and white. In the comings decades, they will cease to exist (apologies for sounding morbid, I'm just stating facts) and their political influence will reduce dramatically."

This is precisely why Trump got elected: to stop large scale demographic manipulation on the part of the left and intelligentsia. If he doesn't solve that for the right, there won't be a second term. For him or for Republicans.

And to quote another anti-Trump commenter here: "That. Would.Be.Bad."
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I've worked in environments where 6-8 people in a team have largely similar skill sets and all shared wage info. Not much difference besides how many end of year pay reviews they had stuck around to see.

My experience is personal and anecdotal so largely meaningless by itself hence the question to a wider audience
You and I clearly have different definitions of opportunity or what it means to the average individual.
Ok you lost me at “future historical fact”. Again that is a fancy way of saying pure speculation. No I don’t know for a fact that the NSA didn’t order Intel to build a buggy ME into all its processors. I can’t prove that it didn’t happen. And maybe your speculation will turn out to be right. I am arguing that my speculation that this was incompetence is significantly more likely to be correct than your speculation of conspiracy.

Your theory in the above comment is that the NSA or equivalent ordered Intel to build a C&C mechanism into their processors. Intel then did a perfect job covering up this request, but did a piss poor job of implementing it due to incompetence and has not managed to correct it for 10 years. There is no indication that this might be the case but because of other unsavory activities by the NSA or equivalent it can be assumed that at some point evidence will be uncovered that you are right and therefore we should accept it as fact. Do I have that right?
On the other hand, why bother writing a blog if you don't expect any readers?

There's this hidden assumption here that "the HN crowd" = "a huge amount of visitors". The typical HN crowd for a front-page article will be on the order of 10,000 visitors. That's really not much on the scale of the internet.
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The article is light on details, so hopefully I can help out as an Icelandic speaker. I'm only just familiarizing myself with this now.

It was already illegal to have unequal pay for the two sexes and other protected classes in Iceland. What's being changed here is mostly that the burden of proof is being shifted around.

Now organizations starting with 25 employees (and more requirements kick in at 250) need to have some sort of process for how they manage promotions, and implement pay scales that they can demonstrate to the institute of equality are conducive to the outcome of equal pay.

If they fail to do so they can start getting daily fines until they fix their processes.

So this is essentially an attempt to fix corporate governance through compliance before issues of equal pay arise, providing companies more rope to hang themselves by making them produce an audit trail of potential incompliance, and giving the government the power to fine companies for what it sees as structural problems, without having enough proof to pursue specific cases of unequal pay.

Edit: I misread the number of employee requirement. It's being phased in with companies with 250+ employees needing to be compliant by December 31, 2018, then each year in steps of 150-249, 90-149, until companies with 25-89 employees need to be compliant on December 31, 2021[3]

1. http://www.althingi.is/altext/146/s/1054.html

2. http://www.stadlar.is/thjonusta/nyjustu-frettir/stadlamal-fr...

3. http://www.jafnretti.is/jafnretti/?D10cID=ReadNews3&ID=1404
> Every country will attempt to negotiate the cheapest price they can get. Even so, drug prices across Europe vary widely by country. And there are powerful European pharmaceutical companies[1] who naturally resist price discounts or cheaper alternatives

The only reason those countries are able to "negotiate" low prices is that the US is a much larger market and doesn't fix prices, so they can simply mark up prices in the US to make up the difference.

Every single one of those European pharmaceutical companies you mentioned? They make the bulk of their revenue in the US market, even though Europe is more than twice the size of the US. That's why half the R&D done in the entire world is done in the US, and a large portion of the R&D done elsewhere is still funded by revenue generated from the US market.
I easily come out ahead. I max out the $300 travel credit no problem and then use a ton of points to surpass the extra $150.
I feel like it's a corporate surveillance device. Same goes for similar products by different manufacturers.
So your argument is that there its unfair to compare the Chevy Bolt to the Tesla 3 because the latter is prettier?
Yes, there is both an adjusted and unadjusted gender pay gap.
> I don't care about the money

You must not be an investor.
>> We probably have bones as tough as they need to be, or _needed_ to be in the last million or so years.

Well, yeah. I think evolution makes you as good as you need to be to reproduce before you die, rather than optimise every characteristic.
> There are people that say he's all talk

I really wish there is stronger support for him against these sorts of people. How can he be all talk when we see his rockets going up and coming back down.
A year ago, I would have agreed with you because all examples of Religion I saw were like that. They provided help with strings attached. They did things to make sure non-members followed the rules of their religion.

I found about a Unitarian Universalist church in my area and now am considering joining.

In contrast to other religions I've seen, the UU church welcomes everyone no matter their background or who they love. The church I attend has a reproductive task force that helps pregnant women and new moms no matter what they have decided to do with the pregnancy. There is a group that goes to Planned Parenthood in my city to protect women from the protesters. They by diapers for mothers with no money to buy them. They will give rides to doctor appointments for those that need them but can't afford them. They strongly believe we need more sex education and free birth control and that if we have those the need for abortion will be greatly reduced.

So please don't cast your net so widely.
>Kaiser's HMO is much worse than a PPO. It's not that great of care.

care to elaborate why?
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I have a theory that introversion and extraversion don't really exist as personality traits, and that we build up preferences out of existing culture about how much social interaction we want in our daily lives.

If the culture changes, then so will our preferences.

I can easily imagine a world in which I'm gregarious and fun all the time. Making that world happen on the other hand...
That was an answer to his question, not my entire rebuttal.
Forget banks, in 2018 you'll pay through Amazon and Facebook
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Hmm, either what I read was wrong or I misunderstood what it was saying. Thank you for the correction.
Yeah, the name "diabetes mellitus" comes from passing large volumes of sweet urine.
> No, the belief in health care is that privatization leads to better quality (because privatization and higher pay leads to better care and smarter doctors), not (necessarily) lower prices.

If we look at Medicare as an example, empirically, the private plans have both better quality metrics and come in under budget consistently. (And patients prefer them, which is why the private plans have been gaining in popularity among patients over the years).
From what I can see it's restricted by time zone, not residency.
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Amazon may want to tread carefully here.

Previously their business model was simply to create a fast-lane into Amazon ordering (e.g. "Alexa order me some toilet paper"), but if what the article says is true they're going to ruin normal searching by only giving you product results (Q: "alexa how do I remove a wine stain?" A: "buy Dr. Bubbles Super cleaner"). If Echo is going to give me bad results for questions I'd just stop using it for that.

I'll use whatever personal assistant gives me the highest quality results. If your business model inherently degrades the quality, then your business model is self-destructive.
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I would argue that it is not difficult to construct a functioning market for elective procedures. For elective procedures not covered by insurance, the consumer has time and motivation to educate themselves about alternatives. For elective procedures covered by "insurance", the insurer has the option not to provide such coverage. Competitive pressures can work as they do in the rest of the economy.

The harder question is how to construct a market for non-elective procedures, such as emergency care. Consumer choice doesn't work under those circumstances. We have a market failure. How do we solve it?
Sorry to be a grouch, but I had an AIBO (2nd gen) and the thing was overall corny and very limited, even at the time. Lightyears away from inducing any suspension of disbelief.

(It's that robotic dog, for anyone wondering)
Aaaaand it's gone.
More importantly, better to break a bone, then let it knit back together more-or-less as it was, than to bend a bone and be stuck with a permanently bent limb.
So if a man tries to negotiate a higher salary he'll be told no because it's illegal? What if a woman tries?

In most workplaces at the higher levels everyone is essentially doing their own specific version of a particular job. Two people might share the same title and job description but what they actually do can be very different and some people are simply more valuable than others. This kind of legislation seems to be enforcing a drone mentality, i.e. everyone is equal and does exactly what they are told, no more, no less.
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This needs a collective defense, i.e. state action: An advertising tax to take the profit out of most of it.
I'd argue they're top of the tree in gaming consoles, but on the whole I agree.
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A relatively tiny number of people will ever download the blockchain, a relatively tiny number of people use Tor, how many bits of information does a state level adversary need to deanonymize someone?
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The Tesla 3s that are currently getting delivered to customers are up to $20k more expensive than the Bolt. That people see the two cars as more or less equivalent is a massive success for GM.
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> full of people I wouldn't want to have around, as your own message shows.

That's way stronger than anything I intended to say, even if I made a bit of fun of the overly enthusiastic ones.

My joke was based on that way back when, when Gentoo was younger and the hip distro, whenever a thread discussed Debian on the desktop or server, a newly minted Gentoo user would drop by to extol the virtues of Gentoo for every use case possible: "But I use it on servers," "My desktop is so much faster," etc.

Now in this, and similar threads, I notice it's the Arch users who have taken over this function. So when you brought out Gentoo, it felt like a blast from the past, prompting me to accuse you of being "out of touch" for humourous effect. No offence (well, very minor offence) was intended, and I bear no ill will towards either Arch or Gentoo users.
See Arthur Koestler's book "The Ghost in the Machine" published in 1967. Koestler coined the word "holon". A holon is a whole functional and structural unit while at the same time a part of a larger whole, which is itself a part of an even larger whole. Koestler sees life as a hierarchy of holons. For example, a mitochondrion is a structural and functional unit with its own code of instructions while being a part of a cell, which is another holon, which is part of an organism, another holon, which is part of a social group, yet another holon.

It occurred to me that consciousness may also be a hierarchy of holons. A whole can only be known from a "holistic" perspective. Any attempt to reduce it to parts to understand the whole destroys the character of the whole. This may help explain why reductionist science has had little success in explaining consciousness.
Dude, what? This is nonsense. If you're sucking down potato chips, cookies, and processed shit, you're not a Vegan; you're a moron. Eating a diet based on vegetables, fruits, beans, and nuts will absolutely change an overweight persons life.
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duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16042203
The same one whose currency essentially powers the world economy via the petrodollar?
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We take in calcium as +2 ions, and use it in the same state when making calcium phosphate for bones. That helps because calcium, like most metals, takes a lot of energy to reduce to its metallic form. Titanium and iron are also naturally found as ions. Getting bulk quantities of the metallic form would be a waste from an evolutionary standpoint, when it could just make a strong mineral-based composite material like bone.
It was almost certainly boarded and hijacked in mid flight by commandos who flew the plane to khazakstan where it was used to fake the shoot down of MH17.
You should tell Comparably: their email this week said the average for senior devs in San Francisco was $155k.
holy shit do you work for usps! you described my work environment almost to the T;
Tis article reeks of Executive Branch propaganda from anonymous sources "according to current and former U.S. officials" etc etc
They could get AMD hardware that works today. We don't know when Intel will have working hardware. It will be at least months and possibly years. Processor design is a long process.
Not new but accentuated: I think a lot of people used to know there was some gray area but thought we were generally on the right side (not unlike the U.S. attitude about torture until the Bush-era reversal), before the pattern of relentless disregard for the law and American interests really went public.

A lot more people are comfortable with, say, targeted foreign attacks than broad domestic dragnets or attacking American companies or standards.
>In Submissions

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The first line of this article points out that it is a republication from a different canonical source.
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I'd say they compete favorably with Canon and Nikon with digital cameras.
This is the medium post to garner attention for their journal article [1]. Admittedly the style seems like something out of the "self help" section of the bookstore, but my takeaway was: "look at this new result, it supports adopting a new theory of obesity, and I personally think this theory is the right one."

[1] http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/64/1/192
I've been using Typora, which is a WYSIWYG editor that utilizes markdown. I really enjoy it for local note taking (not in the cloud) at work.

I appreciate that it's pretty to look at, and I get to use markdown.
I worked for government contractors for almost 15 years (until October 2016) and participated in proposal efforts ranging from $750k SBIRs to a $1B+ multi-year prime contract for a radar system. Every one had established billing rates for labor, based on the type of employee rendering the labor. How is this misleading?
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It wasn't me who downvoted, but some guesses:

- there is a movement to upvote posts with salary range information, I think some people might also downvote posts without salary ranges

- you say nothing about the technologies you use, which makes it harder to find your post in this huge thread if I'm looking to work with specific things

- someone might simply dislike your product
Well first of all they're not his rockets. The engineers and scientists did it, he supplies the money, arguably a meritless in ck prison.

Second, there are many promises he still hasn't delivered on: SpaceX targets not met, Tesla still running at a massive loss, Hyperloop being doomed to failure, etc etc. I can definitely see why people say he is mostly talk, even though admittedly he has achieved some successes.
>Things like Lasik, Invisialign, and plastic surgery prove the market can work in healthcare.

It's no coincidence that all three of those are optional services that (most) people do not need to not die. The free market has worked relatively well for services like that, and most healthcare does not fall under that category.
No, that was just spoofing the PCI VID:PID to the kernel. It did not enable hardware features, just fooled the driver into thinking it was another device. You could do the same with a patched kernel if you don't want to solder.
I think they’re trying to use “legalise” to mean “put legal structures around”. Probably they meant “legislate”?
I don't see how titanium bones would remove the need for healthy cartilage, and I'd expect if we had metabolic pathways to create titanium we'd have ones to break it down, too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188

This has been posted in the past, and there's a pretty good discussion on it with more from moxie here.
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I suppose by "advanced" I meant new. It's equally fair to say "not as well validated by crypto researchers".
Another annoying "feature" is that the rest of the keyboard also changes by physically moving the keys, causing me to regularly mistype certain letters when changing keyboard as you can't trust muscle memory. I'd rather like to just have dead dummy keys on those slots or something so I don't have to mess up texts by muscle all the time.
Musk isn't a PR guy, and I think a lot of people respect and like him for that.

He makes crazy "moonshots", he has a vision and doesn't tone it down nearly as much as others do, and he's not afraid to be "wrong".

The SpaceX community has a running joke about "elon time" being set to mars time, because his predictions and goals are almost always late (and are often under delivering), but I honestly respect that. Him and his companies aren't taking the "easy way out" of making easily achievable goals and then making them again and again. They are shooting for unlikely and in some cases almost impossible goals, and getting 70-90% of the way there, and they aren't exactly ashamed of it. IIRC there was a reddit thread a while back that was "bashing" Elon and Tesla and SpaceX about only hitting something like 70% of the goals they set, but I read it differently. They set out to revolutionize 3 different industries (cars, space, and now "boring" and public transport), and even if they can only get to "70% revolutionized", it's still a massive win in my opinion!

He's not perfect, I hear lots of bad things from many employees about the work environment, but overall I really respect the man and the companies he has created, and I think he has and will continue to do a lot for humanity.
Another problem is breaking/remaking these metal bones. Biomineral structures can be reformed - bones break mechanically, and have to be repaired. While biomineralization is mentioned, I'm not sure how easy it would be to 'digest' pure metal in order to repair it.

Also, related : https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/60780/how-to-for...
Well, now we're getting into the question of what the intent is behind having different pricing and licensing for broadcast and distribution of recordings.
Ok, here's a question that bugs me for decades (literally)

For instance, they hate abortion because they view it as murder, which is itself a morally consistent position to take. If you believed abortion was murder I'd hope that you would hate it to.

How is it that the most virulent abortion haters are such staunch believers in the death penalty?

While I'm aware that this statement is not 100% true it significantly more often than not seems to be the case.

Note that I don't intend to provoke, or get into a flame war, but I'm really curious about this utterly inconsistent view.
I’ve heard he doesn’t pay well. It would be a lot easier to support a “visionary” if they believed in treating their employees well. Henry Ford did it a century ago. We probably got a golden age (of sorts) out of that.
I add 2kg when diving in saltwater, but it will be different for everyone
Social mobility measured by movement across quintiles is bullshit.

The top quintile in the US is much higher than the EU. As a result someone in the EU moving from 10,000 EUR to 80,000 EUR might be going from the bottom to the top quintile.

Someone moving from $10,000 to $125,000 in the US might be going from the bottom to the 3rd quintile. Less income mobility, but higher overall incomes.

I'd prefer the US scenario.
Bone is an organ with multiple functions beyond structural support. It creates a reservoir for calcium and phosphate homeostasis and of course contains bone marrow. It also has attachments for muscles and connective tissue, and adapts to environmental conditions (eg see a tennis player's forearm). A titanium bone could do none of these things. The question should really be why are bones not reinforced with metal or metal composites. In general if greater strength is needed it can be achieved with thicker bone, which has a far lower evolutionary barrier than eg metal composite bones. Additionally, the material properties of the whole biomechanical apparatus need to be considered. A super strong skinny thigh bone isn't much good if the area available for ligamentous attachment is so small that the tendons keep tearing. Most injuries involve connective tissue and muscle rather than bone.
At what?
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