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I'm not sure that debate can lead to the "truth".

If you define Truth as being "the thing that actually happened", rather than the more definite "Mathematical truth" I believe that the best you can get at is an understanding of somebodies opinion of what happened, along with the bias that leads to that opinion.

Reading your comment again, I see that you do emphasis "different points of view", so I'm guessing that are actually approaching the same understanding from different directions. I believe outside of mathematics, truth is in most cases just an option depending upon point of view.
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Depends on the property tax rate. That is definitely true in china where there is no property tax, but less true in the west given that high property taxes act to effectively deprecate your property yearly. If they sit on the property for 10 years and the rate is 1%, that is 10% gone, and it only gets worse as the property appreciates (well, outside of California).

Property tax acts as a stick to put property to productive use rather than just sit on it, otherwise the USA property market might be as dysfunctional as china’s.
Actually, I'm not a product designer or engineer, but I feel like I have an idea for #1, and I'm interested in doing it, even for myself. Maybe it's something like "dishwasher v2.0", I 'm not sure.

I basically want a standard set of plates, bowls, cups and silverware, which is designed to work with an automated washing box that has slots (or maybe holders) for each to be deposited inside. The idea is, you use the item, and then feed it into the machine, and right there it cleans and done.

Within the machine, it can queue up a small amount of each item internally (in case you have more than one item), and then washes, rinses, and quickly spin or air dries each item, one at a time (or maybe for silverware, in small batches).

Lastly, it spits out the clean items either completely (or mostly) dry at the end of the process.

This way, you can own less dishes overall (because you wash/dry them instantly), and you get all the hard work mostly done. Maintenance would be mostly keeping it loaded with soap/cleaner, and making sure food waste doesn't clog it.

If you could pull that off and make it reasonably water and energy efficient... I think that would make a lot of people happy, self included! Not sure if washing things piecemeal can be made water and energy efficient though.

Some days I wish I regret not having more hardware/mechanical/electrical engineering experience!
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And even then; they provision an absurd amount of it. I just did a fresh Ubuntu install. On a machine with 32 gigs ram, it creates a 32 gig swap partition by default!
This.

I live in Japan as well & told my family the same a long time back. There aren't that many other specifics you can plan for, with the family typically spread across the city on the average day, but at least grab a bathtub of clean water to see you through a few days till things settle down.
> # Install NPM dependencies

> $ npm install

So we know for sure that there's not a malicious leftpad.js getting pulled in there that looks for and exfiltrates your exchange credentials?

Yeah - I'm not going there... Not anywhere near there...
And how about the purchasing power of a family of 1?
It seems odd to call them "nutty" when the subject is who to turn to in an oh-shit real-life doomsday scenario.
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I bought a pair of those several years ago. It worked for about a year and then broke down. I tried to sell the remaining unit for 90% off on craigslist, and there were no takers. It was the kickstarter version 1.0 of this:

http://mistbox.com/
Airbnb and speculation go hand in hand.

A condo may be unaffordable as an investment with a long term rental, but when one can get higher rents with short term rentals it then becomes profitable. Now instead of investor landlords doing long term rentals you have those persons outbid by people who are willing to pay more because they're running virtual hotels. Resultantly the price of condos rises and vacancy decreases.

This is explicitly the sort of group that the Vancouver regulations are targeting. Vancouver regulations allow you to rent out a room in your primary residence, but will not let you rent out a full house that is not your primary residence.

A huge part of Airbnb's revenue comes from commercial operators that buy condos to rent out exclusively, so expect Airbnb's Vancouver revenue to drop like a stone. If this trend catches on Airbnb revenue could decrease quite a bit...
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On the same line of thought, you wouldn't hire a violinist just because you heard them play the scales.

In music, you often get handed some sheet music or asked to prepare something.

In the cooking industry, you throw them at a kitchen and tell them to impress you.

In the programming industry... We ask people to write toys and logic puzzles. That isn't what they'll spend their days doing, that's just practice, like scales.
Right. Pu238 alpha decay is aneutronic so it doesn't contribute to a chain reaction. However heating from too much Pu238 (or more importantly, Pu240) would be a heat removal/thermal challenge.
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> And in industries like law, medicine, etc., if a potential employer asked you to perform some random task from a highly technical and complex subject from med school or law school, it would be very unusual.

I'm not a developer, so maybe this sounds absurd, but as someone who has good understanding of how medicine works, maybe this industry could use a few standardized exams/certifications?

I think it's possible that, because a practicing physician will have passed the MCAT, USMLE Step 1/2/3, and have obtained a license, they don't have to deal with this sort of bullshit in interviews. It seems like the idea of a "licensed software developer" may never exist, but maybe that's why the hiring process is the way it is.
If you have small children or people who work "dirty jobs" in the household then the clothes washing robot needs to be able to detect and pre-treat stains with something like Spray 'n Wash. Otherwise the clothes don't really get clean with just a normal washing machine cycle. Inspecting and spraying each item of clothing consumes a huge amount of manual labor in my family.
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That's BS. Completely untrue.

You just aren't reading/listening to Japanese people on the subject.

No one is freaking out, but we're all tense at more or less the same level, as per our individual personalities.
> Lastly, it spits out the clean items either completely (or mostly) dry at the end of the process.

While you wait around it to catch plates as they are ejected? The regular dishwasher is better, because it can also double as a rack for plates and cutlery and you can just start it and do something else.
I am not talking about the truth regarding a specific incident. I am talking things like more accurate mental models.

My oldest son sees the world extremely differently from me. When we hash things out, there is a lot of added value in hearing the other person's take on a problem space. If we both agree on the same solution having come at it from opposite directions, we can be confident it is a solid solution and not merely an expression of personal bias.
Can a blockchain like steem be used to solve the reputation problem?
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"You don’t need meat in 3 meals a day"

You don't need 3 meals a day.

If you are at all open-minded about eating less meat, you should also (if only for your own health, fitness and longevity) open your mind to eating fewer meals.

Eating less[1] is one of only two things I have ever done[2] that made a noticeable impact in my health, fitness and athletic output.[3]

[1] Total calories are actually about the same since I have an exercise regimen that requires a floor on calories, but feeding window is reduced (sometimes dramatically) putting me into a fasted state more than half of my life.

[2] The other was shifting almost 30% of my caloric intake to almonds, walnuts, almond butter and sunflower seeds.

[3] I am a competitive BJJ player.
How do you know? There needs to be some kind of connection for remote programmability. The default choice is likely something connected to the (W)LAN. From there, it's only one misconfigured firewall and a default password away from being hacked over the internet.
We had some. Can't recommend them enough if you're a small family. They're also more flexible -- in a normal dishwasher you'd only put pots in the bottom rack, meaning if you've got a load of plates on you'd have to wait. Not so when either draw can be configured for anything and put on separately.

Then we moved house, and the new one had an old regular dishwasher that often doesn't quite clean bowls properly -- can't quite bring myself to chuck out a working dishwasher to get dishdrawers, but if the dishwasher breaks any time soon...
For #1 why not just use a dishwasher and keep the dishes in there?

If that's not acceptable, what about a dishwasher designed for keeping dishes in there?
Do you work for them? The video on that page never shows it successfully folding anything. The narrator gave it a t-shirt and it failed.
This is true if you have very junior level responsibility, but as soon as you need to take any kind of leadership role others will be looking to you to contribute in a manner that is not ad hoc.

Also, you mention research. Research and preparation are synonymous.
I would respectively suggest that most countries in the rest of the world don't behave in such a was as to require this level of excessive spending on "defence". As you state, if you are conducting defensive operations, how can it be that failure of that defence will not impact your country.
The difference is that railroads actually had utility outside of illegal transactions.
The (1) makes me feel sci-fi and (2) brings me back to earth.
To imagine that genetics do not play a role in intelligence (or any talent) is horribly naive, otherwise we could teach our dogs to program.
> Can someone explain to me how on earth Ethereum is still a thing?

Network effect and name recognition, the same reasons that Bitcoin hasn't been supplanted by Monero or Zcash or any of the other dozens of coins that do virtually everything better than Bitcoin.

The really interesting thing is that the original plan for Bitcoin included many of the same programmable-money features as Ethereum. The instructions are still in the bytecode but I believe they were disabled in one of the patches, except for a handful of instructions that implement the basic "send money from A to B" type functionality.

My impression is these were supposed to be enabled/used at some future date, but this is just one more thing that's gotten bogged down by the infighting and politics of the project. Much like blocksize - 1 MB was just a number picked to avoid transaction spamming blowing things up in the early days, not a divinely inspired number intended to be used for all time. But the project is so stagnant and calified that they can't handle even the smallest day-to-day tasks like this. God forbid we change one of Satoshi's sacred constants.
The roadmap needs to be updated. It's for 2016-2017.
That's the first question that occurred to me so I web-searched.

Seems it is faster and has a broader API. I sort of expected that Raph Levien(1) might have contributed or that Cairo would be part of the base of Skia. But apparently not.

(1) works at Google and wrote Cairo
To be honest, the cryptocurrency movement feels like an attempt to shift the power from people who control money to people who control the technology.
The significant takeaway for me as a Vancouverite is that these are apartments and they're reaching renters and rental vacancy is increasing.

In contrast Vancouver is also building more substantially more multi-unit residences than ever before, but somehow Vancouver's vacancy rate remains sub 1%. In a reverse from Seattle, Vancouver predominantly builds condos, and this could be a factor.

Vancouver, likely needing the assistance of the provincial and federal government for legislative changes, needs to start doing things differently, and Canadian governments need to find a way to incentivize developers to build rental apartments instead of condos.
> "Works" in a one-off trial or with daily use?

It worked with daily usage from the time I set it up (shortly after buying that particular MacBook Pro, in October 2016) until the time I quit using that machine all-day every day (c. December 2017). In addition, it worked on the previous MacBook Pro I had as well.

It still worked when I spent five minutes on it earlier today. Obviously, that's not any extensive testing but I have no reason to believe it has somehow broken itself in the time it's been sitting on a shelf, turned off.

I'll grant you that it's certainly not the easiest thing to get up and running... but I also know that it can be done and that it can work quite well. TBQH, if it had been that much of a pain in the ass, I wouldn't have bothered.

FWIW, this is a mid-/late-2016 MacBook Pro, running 10.12.something (never updated it to High Sierra), with a Yubikey Neo. GPG came from homebrew, IIRC, and SSH as shipped with the OS. I'm on mobile at the moment but I'll try to remember to go back and check all the version numbers and such later, if you're truly interested in them.

It sucks that you experienced so many issues with this but I think there's enough anecdotal evidence here to show that this can all be made to work -- and work reliably.
"P.S. Good luck on a vegetarian diet with a 3500+ caloric intake. You'll be eating all day."

Nuts and nut butters make this very easy. Just 1/4 cup of almond butter, for instance, is over 350 calories.

I'm not a vegetarian but I have cut out a lot of meat and maintained a relatively high (3000+) daily caloric intake without any difficulty.

Almonds, walnuts and sunflower seeds.
In design school, we had one class which involved things like developing your portfolio, learning how to present yourselves to companies, interviews with Creative Directors, etc.

Given that technical interviews a common method of partially evaluating engineers/developers, it doesn't strike me as particularly odd for a practical course to exist that helps students maximize their ability to get a job. As you mentioned, it's really only one class out of dozens of others they'll take over several years. Myself, I took a number of electives that had far less practical impact on my career trajectory.
Thanks! This is exactly what I needed. I was able to get it up and running on Raspberry Pi with just "pip3 install webrtcvad", and the quality is at least good enough to get me started.
You're absolutely right. The problem with these kinds of courses is that you will now be competing with people who have been specifically taught how to prepare for and crack technical interviews.

I am pretty sure that they will perform better than people who just spend a single weekend rehearsing.
Many years ago, the IRS didn’t require you to list the social security numbers of your dependents when claiming them on your taxes. Once the requirement was put into place, the number of fliers claiming dependents dropped dramatically.

Trust but verify.
I've got to say, I love the idea. I am always getting into trouble for not "playing nice" when I'm discussing something with somebody I don't agree with. It is very difficult to talk with people when the immediate assumption is that you are rude and offensive when all you want is a chance to get your opinion heard.
Is the purchasing power of a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) any higher than someone living alone, specifically when talking about purchasing home appliances?

I mean occasionally my wife and I will both purchase bread on the way home resulting in us having a lot of bread, but I can't think of a time we both accidentally bought a refrigerator or oven on the same weekend.
This is a terrible idea. Now if someone wants to interview at your company they have an 80% chance of being unemployed when it is done. Good luck getting good candidates to jump through that hoop.
But you have a lot of flexibility in web browsers: There are a decent number of options, and they're available on every OS. The problem with using "Android apps" is that they tend to lock you into Google's ecosystem. Your solutions are limited to "things that support Chromecast", which is a vastly more limited set of options.
You might look at https://sciter.com/ Which apparently uses Cairo, Direct2D or Skia depending on the platform.
Any minute now, I'm expecting someone to pipe up "Oh, I just shower clothed..."
It may. I’ll keep an eye out.
I'm a proponent of whiteboard tests and am in charge of conducting for potential hires on my team.

However I don't see how they guard against an outdated skillset? My company employees five Infor Sys21 RPG programmers who thought the term "web service" was synonymous with SOAP until I ran a workshop.4 out of 5 worked most of their career for IBM and all have bachelor's or masters in CS, EE, or Math. With a weekend of refreshing they would definitely pass a whiteboard for me (although not necessarily with the most optimized solution). They are all over 50 btw. And work slow and steady (but efficient) with no burnout in site.

I can come up with a "good" solution for nearly every question related to algo on leetcode and have very in demand skills as well as been the top SO poster and core open source developer on a Java platform that is #1 in a Gartner magic quadrant. At 27 and am on the verge of burnout that as happened as a result of getting large Adderall / Vyvanse scripts (legally) and being on the computer for nearly 14 hours every day.
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Flat panels do not flicker [1]. Regardless of the refresh rate their pixels stay constantly illuminated.

[1] At least not in the sense of CRTs. Most do perform temporal dithering of colors by alternating between nearby shades.
Yep, SDF is awesome! I too was too young to be a part of the BBS world at its peak, and I agree that 'com' and 'boards' are pretty confusing for me at times. But using it as a cheap IRC client, web host, email server, and VPN (over SSH if you don't want to be a VPN-level member) has been super useful for me, and it's nice knowing there's a community behind it that's been around since the 80s.
Visualise yourself sleeping with an arm hanging above you. What if someone hacks the arm and it kills you in your sleep? You can't be sure with all the vulnerabilities. I wouldn't be able to sleep with such a dangerous thing in the same room.
Nice but got "Failed to run, possibly violated security container"
From an eye strain point of view, the big distinction between an LCD and a CRT at the same refresh rate is that the LCD’s backlight is on continuously; a CRT flickers at its refresh rate. 60 Hz flicker is easily visible, and, at least for me, isn’t particularly comfortable to look at (I used to crank the refresh rate up on my monitors for this reason).

LCD monitors with PWM-dimmed backlights can have the same problem, but they usually run at higher frequency. I still run non-PWM monitors for my daily work, though.
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For xi-editor I considered Skia but ultimately decided to write my own OpenGL renderer. I think Skia would have worked, but the dependency was heavyweight and I'm able to tweak my renderer (for example, it gets linear-sRGB color blending right, while Skia uses an approximation). I have a draft blog post on this in the queue, but juggling just a few too many things at the moment.
In this particular case it's "self-taught AI enthusiast solves all the world's problems," but yeah, same thing.
Standardized plates. Add DRM so no one can feed it knockoffs. That is how the coffee pots do it.

But seriously, standardized is the only way such a system could work unless you have a robot at the sink.

That said, a left and right washer is the easier approach. One is dirty,the other is clean. This obviates the need for putting dishes away. This also obviates the need for dishes to sit in the sink (ie because you hadn't put the clean dishes up yet.). Once the dirty is filled and the clean is empty, the washer runs, and the clean and dirty designations switch.
It was living downwind of a pesticide-ridden cabbage field that did it for me.
Thanks for replying, very interesting and best of luck!
I'm not sure why you presented this as contradictory to the post you replied to.

> High prices (demand) attracting speculation (supply) should drive down rents (prices) ... [but they're not]

Should? Then why aren't they?

> new buildings are regulated through zoning and permits.
based on my use, at least one third of the dishes vary between each use of the dishwasher, and getting stuff out is a hassle, it is very low and the dishes are relatively packed in.

Based on your suggestion I suppose an ideal design would be to put all the dishes back at the end of the day into their respective cabinets and then the cabinets (high-tech dishwasher) wash and dry them during the night.
CES 1982: full of useless computers that don't do much of anything, have little to no software available for them, very expensive. (should not be taken literally, the point however is obvious)

Check back in about 5 to 7 years.
I do wonder how people could operate in this manner when presented with opinions that challenge their world view. Challenge somebodies religion, sexuality (especially if they are homophobic) or belief in their country and your are almost certain to trip them from civil discussion into emotional outburst in very short order.
I had the Fisher Paykel double dishdrawer and found that it works great. We loaded dirty in one drawer and took clean from the other. We always had to put a few clean items away when swapping drawers, but that's a quicker than unloading everything.
I definitely have a crush on her.
I did not write Cairo, I wrote libart, and that was a long time ago. I'm good friends with several of the Skia authors, but don't actively work on it myself.
Thanks for posting this! Got a few emails about it and was wondering where they came from. I've always wondered about taking it further i.e. with decimal representation, and would love any references on the topic if anyone knows some.
There is one exception - the robo-vacuum. It's good enough today to run 99% unattended (you still have to empty the dust bin by hand and clean hairs from its wheels). It does a more thorough job than a human already.
Cruel conditions aside (which could be argued as morally bad thing), this:

> then killed about one tenth of the way into our natural lifespan, purely for the pleasure of others

does not seem to be rational. Humans and animals don't eat only for the pleasure, then need to eat something in order to live. Your stomach and other organs do not really care about your conscientious choices about what to eat, whether you had to kill for that or not. The natural lifespan is also partially influenced by 'demand' for the species by the predators, so the fact that some animal populations in wildlife have ten times the lifespan can be explained by the fact that those animals do not have humans in their natural habitat. Those which do end up in farms and their natural lifespan is lower.

Anyway, I believe eating meat is so profound on moral debates only because humans are apex predators and no one preys on us. If there were such things then maybe our moral choices about animals could be more compassionate (in order to possibly influence moral choices of the human-eating predators).