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Funny happenstance that I had to see this thread just as I come back from my Dutch language class. Tonight I had to debate (of course in Dutch) for 15 minutes, as part of an interim exam, with my co-debater about "Are smartphones making us dumber?"

Where we quoted studies and statistics in turns—"Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One's Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity"; in 2017, people spent over 4 hours a day (86 hours a month) staring at their phones, and so on.

I ended it with my favourite tip (that I've been exercising for 2 years): Put every goddamned thing and everyone on mute (i.e. no notifications), except your partner / "person you like the most" / SO.

The restored peace has been clarifying.

Edit: I barely use any applications, besides tools like train schedule look-up, English-to-Dutch dictionary, Maps and occasionally camera. And no "social media", besides the reasonable exception of limited HN minutes. (My phone—a four-year-old Nexus 5, which just underwent a battery replacement surgery by yours truly, saving a handsome 45€, and good to go for three more years with LineageOS.)
The improvements already in superconductors over the past decades have already made a fusion reactor that is much smaller than ITER a possibility.

A group primarily from MIT proposed such a reactor called ARC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
> UBI - it will surely have huge second-order effects

I absolutely agree, and I think these justifiable and yet ill-defined concerns are shared by a lot of UBI opponents.

I just hope anyone trying to come to an informed decision remembers to include unrestrained capitalism's second-order effects on the pro/con list.
I wonder if a payment service provider is using google as their cloud. If so, they should consider moving !
That's a pretty picture. I wonder though, the beautiful Voronoi-like patterns between the leaves are an intentional effect, or camera quality issues rendering as something nice by accident?
In my public high school in the US, it was required for all my math classes past basic algebra, but I only knew one person who ever tried to code anything on it themselves (although people transferred games pulled online frequently; this was early 00s, transfer was this weird USB to something that looked like an headphone jack to connect to computer), and there were either test calculators, or an instructor would clear RAM.
I tried to buy my son the most basic phone available. $5-$10, no camera. I wanted it to do phone calls, texts, and that's it.

Turns out it still had a rudimentary browser. And because the phone was only capable of 3G, his basic line had unlimited data. He spent a ridiculous number of hours watching YouTube on that tiny 1.5" screen.
Neopets, MySpace, Xanga, Angelfire, Tripod, Geocities...
I think that you can't, PERIOD. Catalonia was attempting to have a small local government and got shut down.
Also, revolutions don't benefit the masses, only a different small group of people. The american revolution displaced the english royalty with new american power.
The rebels become the new establishment.

I think the only way to guarantee that you don't government overreach is not have a sociaety where all member are active and responsible. Not in that they all vote. In that they all deal with issues in their community, rather than pawning it off to the government and also giving them the power they need.

I think that society that takes care of itself - instead of inventing institutions to do so - is feasable, but a real pain in the ass to maintain. And it's just easier to not. Sorry if i ranted a bit.
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AFAIK, you still need the iPhone, but it can remain plugged in at home.
If anything, my cellphone was tiniest around 2004 and gradually bloated back to mid-1990s sizes.
That's why I made an exception for widebodies, although I accept that "making an exception for widebodies" more or less undermines my point.

But I claim that, for example, you can't realistically have a 737 layout that isn't 6 seats wide in coach — and that means the width of your coach seats will be whatever width fits 6 seats plus one gangway.
Another interesting follow one (I think): if the OS patches cause the performance hit, would the hardware fix not cause the same (or similar) performance impact?
I've seen this as well and noticed that it was only after moving to 4.14.
to emodendroket's point, I recall reading an article that in the previous year (2016) that the IRS stated that very few people were claiming bitcoins in their taxes. I'm not versed on cryptocurrencies so I don't know how plausible it is that they know this, but it seems like something they're looking at now.
Do you think they'd just shrug their shoulders and go home and be poor?
Personal quantum computing, assuming the press releases about the lastest breakthroughs are right about them being made of superconducting elements.

Assuming the price, mass density, critical magnetic field density, and critical current density are all good, you could launch satellites magnetically against Earth’s magnetic field (but only from the poles and with some cute tricks for efficient horizontal motion).
Another second order effect is the reduced supply of family sized units. Many 3+ bedroom units are occupied by older couples and single people who raised their kids there and no longer need the space but would find it much more expensive to downsize. This drives families out of the city (among other things). Prop. 13 solves this by allowing people older than 55 to transfer their property tax break to a smaller house.
I don't know why you are being downvoted.

I think if he had made a better written argument that focused more clearly on the idea that part of the gender gap is due to a lack of interest by women, that he probably still would be employed.
This has nothing to do with being right or left. It is simply a human decency thing. A manager and company is responsible for everyone and after he shared such views with his name you could never keep him and have him working along side women. Google did exactly what they had to do. It is not complicated.
Or does it just seem that way because science and technology have already solved so many problems?

"People get distracted by smartphones" is a problem. But so is, "India doesn't produce enough food to feed its people", and that problem had a technological solution. Climate change will require technological solutions. Energy sustainability will require technological solutions. More diseases have been eradicated through science and technology than through any other mechanism.

I'll take a bunch of distracted teenagers over a bunch of crippled teenagers who barely survived polio any day.
Rent control is just one of the ways that people who are in a place benefit themselves at the expense of the people who are not yet there (and thus don’t get to vote).
> You get the same treatment from banks: default on one loan and they'll tell the others (via credit reporting agencies), because that information is something they need to make good business decisions.

At least in the US, negative events on your credit report disappear after 7 years.
Please resist the temptation to place yourself above everyone else. It doesn't improve the discussion.

> When you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I thought so too, but another commenter here found that they were repeatedly reported on during that time, just not tagged as the main subject of the articles. (But maybe this change still does reflect a different level of editorial interest in them during that time.)
“On Azure I’m using .NET 4.6 on the v1 runtime while on AWS I’m using the same code running under .NET Core 1.0.“

.NET Core has way less baggage than .NET 4.6 [1] so you’d be expecting AWS to come out ahead.

It looks like Azure functions supports .NET Core now [2]. (Edit: just noticed the author is aware of this [3].)

Of course it might also be Blob storage having higher latency than S3.

Having used Azure Functions before I agree with the article’s criticisms about scaling.

[1] https://www.ageofascent.com/2016/02/18/asp-net-core-exeeds-1... Mind this article is talking about comparing ASP.NET with ASP.NET Core, and .NET with .NET Core, not just .NET Core’s performance.

[2] https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Functions/issues/98

[3] https://www.azurefromthetrenches.com/azure-functions-v2-prev...
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> In the UK that sort of merger would almost certainly be blocked by the Competition Commission

It would be interesting to see what would happen if Intel ignore such judgement, what UK would do, stop selling all laptops/desktops?
Pretty much all of this is fiction.
> we saw proof of that in the last US election.

When Clinton got millions more votes?
Interesting, I hadn't heard of Dr. Bredesen before. Here's a link[1] that has some details on his treatment method. At first glance it doesn't strike me as too revolutionary: eat well (cut simple carbs, eat more fruits/veg and fish), get plenty of sleep, a moderate amount of exercise, and practice good oral hygiene. Not sure how this reversed Alzheimer's in 90% of his subjects?

[1] http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/memory-loss-associated-wit...
This is what your mass media wants you to think. In fact, Putin is not authoritarian.
> Google or whatever doesn’t pay based on housing costs.

A number of companies have pay brackets that vary by location, to reflect cost-of-living differences in different locations. I can't tell you whether Google is one of those companies.
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New supply is NOT subject to rent control in any way shape or form. Only non-single family housing that was built before 1979 (or maybe 1980) has rent control. Nothing built after that is rent controlled at all.
Housing is the main cost, and it scales with average take-home income

Shows you what happens when you're well-ensconced in your own personal bubble. It didn't occur to me until you pointed it out that the reason I could easily live on 20 hours/week is partially due to the fact that our $650K house cost us a third of that, because we bought it twelve years ago. Living on 20 hours/week and making the payment on a $650K house might be a little tight. Fine, make it 30 hours/week. :-)
No, not exactly. In the scenario above, the landlord obviously has to keep the property vacant for some time at $5000/month, much longer than at $3000/month. But because it is a near-certainty the real price would go to $5000/month in 5 years - but he is unable to increase rent to that if he rents out today at $3000/month due to rent control (and this is critical) - he would rather keep it vacant until someone comes along and pays the higher amount.

If not for rent control, he would charge $3000/month now at market-clearing rates, get a tenant in there in 30 days, and increase rent by the standard market price every 12 months. But due to rent control undercutting profits, he can't do this, so he keeps it open at a higher price.
Add to that, all the data collected on people unable to give proper consent. Every app a child would use(except maybe children's only apps) is collective metrics on everything and using that for aggregation and further sales(for them or for others). Then the "trivial entertainment" is designed to never get boring and keep attention at the expense of other activities. Even the brain games are only good at training to play that one specific game and nothing else. So the utility isn't there without the context of how to use a computer/phone as a tool
Pretty sure there is a weight limit for PPL? At least I think there is here in Australia.

If memory serves me correctly, I think PPL allows you to fly aircraft up to 5700Kg MTOW. Even one of the 747 engines might bust that limit. :)
Do they have any other business areas than drones? I never heard their name in another context.
You'll love Firefox' reader button right next to the URL bar.

Try it!

No more "click to continue reading", no pop-ups, no scroll locks, and nice formatting.
Yes, that's called Multi-Stream Transport (MST). In general, I'd rather have multiple ports on my output source rather than daisy-chaining which requires not only the output to support MST but also the displays; most displays do not have an output port for MST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multiple_displays_...
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1) a well-staffed multi-partisan agency entirely dedicated to reviewing policy, with a mandate of removing any policy having a net-detrimental effect on society. By launching scientific studies of the effects with subpoena power over other agencies, making policy recommendations, and potentially the power to temporarily suspend regulations until reviewed by congress.

I know this sounds like a good idea. It almost sounds like a good idea to me. But I don't think it will have the effects that you imagine.

Bureaucracies are always understaffed. That's because reality is always more complicated than they can model, so the task of rationalizing things so they can be apportioned, assessed, allotted, regulated or taxed can never end. If you put your plan into practice the immediate effect will be a need for a lot more bureaucrats. Before they just had the real world to worry about; but now, they will have to worry about reality plus an ongoing audit of the regulatory environment. And if they make stupid, unaccountable decisions, as bureaucrats sometimes do, some of them will involve stupidly and unaccountably repealing regulation that was serving a useful purpose. I'd be willing to bet that the problems caused when good law ceases to apply are worse than when bad laws are applied for too long.
Except his point was indefensible, because it was (at best) poorly written.
Are you saying Comcast and AT&T charge the same price per mbps they always did?
None of those people are going long term, which is what I consider investing. They are looking for quick money.
That privacy policy tells me absolutely nothing about the data your service collects from the people who use it, and very little about anything else either for that matter.

It's also incomplete. No offense, but it honestly looks like someone tried to copy and paste a privacy policy from somewhere else, but didn't get the whole thing. It ends at "Security", with nothing beneath - not that any of what was above provided much information to begin with.
I wish we can use the same technology to turn all distractions into opt-ins instead of opt-outs.

i.e. once a month, you get a Gmail or iPhone admin notice that says: "This month, these 4 new apps you installed and there 3 new domains started trying to send you app notifications and mailing list emails. Here are the categories of notifications and a few samples. Do you allow them to continue communicating with you?"
Should we trust politicians to tell the truth?
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Good way to hold yourself to that total: sign up for a meet as far out as you can. Or if you're competing in a fed that has an annual membership (USAPL or USPA, for instance) buy your membership now. Putting some money on the line makes me feel that yes, I am going to put my best effort in this one beautiful day in the future, and helps guide my training leading up to there.

Best of luck big homie!
It's because there's a difference between cool and usable.

For example - compare a Virtual Reality 3D city you can scroll around on your computer, visiting different houses, "chatting" with them, then reading what they posted on their public refrigerator door, then maybe reading some books from their shelf, watch a movie together then you "walk" to a library ... To the internet (Facebook + Wikipedia).

What's cooler? Obviously #1.

What's more usable? #2.

If you could go back in time to the 70s, what would you show on a futuristic movie?

#1, since the you want to "wow" your audience, who won't have to deal with such mundane issues as vertigo, or rapid navigability, or searchability.

But it's not that we can't do #1. We not only could do it, but there were many tries (VRML was supposed to be the "next big thing" since the 90's). It's just that our current UI is better.
My strategy is making money
I seem to remember something about fireplaces or wood stoves being required in new construction, as well, in order to maintain energy independence on an individual-house basis if necessary.
Why is so much enterprise documentation so awful?
Hmm, what? I think e.g. Talk/Hangouts and Voice are radically different: one is about text messaging and video calls, another is about a connection to the "legacy" voice telephony network, with a dial-able number, etc. They started (long ago) form very different areas.

They could have a seamless bridge between them, though. They sort of tried: you can dial a phone from Hangouts, but not back, or you can receive your Voice text messages in the email, but not send a reply back (afaict).

Google is notoriously bad at cohesive product management. They have a number of bright ideas, but no visionary in the consumer product space, so apparently no coordination.
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The article hints at it, but your sense of the readability of a codebase changes the longer you are exposed to it. Patterns that make it easier to become moderately competent in a particular codebase can actually make it harder to become expert. So if you want to maximize readability, you need to estimate how long future maintainers will live with your code.

Will they drop in and do a single commit and never look at it again? Then make sure everything you need to understand a piece of code is right there next to it.

Will they work on it for a long time, changing many parts? Then be very consistent with the patterns and idioms you use across the project, so that their previous experience changing other parts of it helps them understand how to make the next change.
Or: https://blog.cloudflare.com/meltdown-spectre-non-technical/
If you ignore the benefits that a decentralized cryptocurrency provides, currency A would be the choice. However if you include those benefits (no "gatekeeper" telling you who or what you can spend your money with or on, no ability to "charge back" any money, no trust needed to transact, and an audit-able "paper trail" which cannot be altered), then there are a significant number of transactions where I'd rather use B.

I feel the same way, but by and large we are in the minority on this point. Moreover there's no reason why you can't have all those features with an inflationary currency.

educated guesses

There's more to economics (and social science in general) than "educated guesses". But it's social science's fault that you feel this way, not yours.
Yep, it's really annoying how Google forces all their services to be completely integrated together, and not even integrated well. Lots of issues with glitchy account switching.
>> One of them is they completely and utterly ignore the importance of income and social stability.

This is literally an entire field of focus of economists and one of the fastest growing ones in the field. Have you considered that maybe you are the one that is ignoring the second-order effects of being a proponent of rent control and how it helps a specific person over a population?
No. They could just be spending 3 times as much to recruit women, for example. They could have recruiters dedicated to finding women. They could be funding women in tech programs at many levels. etc...
Facebook Messenger supported peer-to-peer debit-card-backed payments for quite a bit now https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/750020781733477/...
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No, but I would argue it makes them less diverse than their physical traits. Especially considering that college is a formative time for most people.
When I say generic I mean the skeuomorphic fully branded credit card images. Why would anyone want that except as a small and possibly enlargeable icon? I want "groceries", "fun", "bills", "work", etc
Permissions on the web suck
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Actually, loans are a good example, since there is a very clear path to making things good again. Typically this involves 10 years of trouble, but that is still better than being completely in the darkness as you slowly get cut off from more and more services (as Google expands.)
I used Apple Pay for the first time recently and it felt like magic. Just hover it near, choose your credit card (which had a full sized image), and then it instantly pays using Touch ID. I think some of the issues you listed with Google Pay are the same issues with Apple Pay.

I also really like WeChat Pay, very convenient, customizable, and verifiable.

Apple Pay feels very "magical" while WeChat Pay feels very "careful/customizable".
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> Very few people actually read it.

You need to learn that people can have a different opinion then you, having read the same document.

> Damore was fired because of the outrage, not because of the article, but the outrage was manufactured by a sensationalist click machine and information overload culture literally championed by the company he was fired from.

Correct, and that's why his lawsuit is BS. He caused outrage both externally and internally. You had an employee that others would refuse to work with.

Of course he was fired.
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This entire article was unsubstantive
Look into any study based in NYC on rent control. The exact same things happen; rental properties are quickly converted to condos.
Agreed. Most Americans are unaware how destabilizing US policies have been to Latin America in general. From toppling democratically elected leaders, to supporting corrupt murderous regimes during the cold war.
I've always used this approach to coding :

1. Write in English what you intend the code to do, as comments.
2. Progressively write code to do what you said you would do above until it is all done.
3. Leave the comments there to explain what it does.

I've worked this way since I got to use comments (originally I coded in hex, computing negative branch offsets in my head as I went -- possibly this explains why I'm such an curmudgeon about requiring comments that explain any non-obvious code's purpose and intentions).

(Yes there is an issue with consistency between comments and code, especially if code is changed over time. Better to fight that problem I believe than to have no information from the original developer as to wtf they thought they were doing.)
I switched back to a "good old plain, non distracting phone" 2013 (http://www.atterobay.com/public/upload_images/model_images/o...) and have been pretty happy.

That said, I have to admin that the "features" I'm missing are a camera and a map.