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$112M for... geofenced self-driving? Is that the main differentiator, or did I read that wrong?

I don't get their competitive advantage. Sure, he worked at Baidu and led a team there, but this is a LOT of money for a very small chance at anything competitive. 2 years to reach the market?

Where do they think Baidu, Google, Tesla & Uber will be in 2 years?
If you drill down on the motion log in the iOS Health app, it's very granular, like a web server log.
Part of the problem is that no one negotiates the price with the hospital. "Oh, I'm insured. All I have to pay is the deductible"

What you want is a buddy like Ed who can get the cost knocked down by 90%
https://youtu.be/pY-BGNjI2Rg?t=6m18s
Sure, but assuming Tether are lying about their instrument being fully backed it doesn't meet any of the theoretical requirements either. Fractional reserve relies on banks being strongly incentivised not to issue too many bank notes because they earn profits only on repaid loans issued to creditworthy borrowers, not from the act of printing the bank note to sell for currency.

Even in the absence of regulation, centralised clearing and interbank loan markets and a central bank as lender of last resort, fractional reserve depends on bank notes circulating and retaining value because enough people actually need them to meet debt repayment obligations, not on sufficient numbers of people believing that it's fully backed by the financial asset they actually want in their portfolio.

(Also, the history of bank runs suggests the legal requirement might have been a rather good idea)
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I'm not able to edit my health kit data. perhaps some apps that integrate can do it, but the ones I use do not and I'm not able to in the health app itself.
Somewhat relevant observation is that good test for various CCNwhatever wielding network administrators is presenting them with piece of cisco hardware with some "unusual" value in confreg (eg. console port set to something other than 9600 8N1).
> Have an upvote. I don't agree with you, but those group downvoting are really mass bullying, to me.

Why? This is literaly lying FUD which is perpetuated by the companies who try to deny you law-given rights.
TLDR: gray-scale reduces your phone usage, they're going to make an app for that, but they have instructions for doing it natively as well.
Shockingly spot-on.
s/completion/competition/
So wrong in so many different ways. The questions you research / prep for may be needed at some point in your career.

Much like programming. You program for all relevant edge cases, as one might be used at some point.

People who don’t prep are horribly lazy and are terrible at enumerating edge cases. The have buggy code that fails at some point. Laziness is by far the way worse quality? Though not the only sin.

Lack of sincere desire to be helping the team succeed and no innate talent are bad too.
> . There's so many people on reddit that claim that trading cryptos is how they're going to get out of the 9-5 working man grind. That it's a way to end the dominance of the wealthy banking elites.

It's a common way of selling get rich quick scams; having a handful of people who have gotten rich quick provides a veneer of plausibility. (Including, but not limited to, Ponzi schemes.)
The crucial distinction being that this authentication bypass was added intentionally, but arguably forgotten to time and left there unintentionally. But I think fair to say, certainly it was a backdoor when it was originally created.
The problem is that most open source projects solve the easy part, and skip the hard part.

When someone else comes along and sees that, they say, why should I fix this thing when I can just as well start a new project that just does what I need?

That‘s why you end up with dozens of half assed solutions to your problem on Github, but in the end you‘ll have to write it yourself anyway.
Make your phone and laptop less distracting
> I don’t see why they need to put in a constraint where you can only place blocks in 2 locations.

There is no such constraint. The problem is easily solved by first putting C on the table, then putting B on C, then putting A on B.

However, in a non-interleaved solver it will look at the goals and try to achieve them. Here is some reasoning.

Let's do "on(B,C)" first.

Easy. Great. Now let's do "on(A,B)". Oh no! We have to undo our success with "on(B,C)" before we can start to make progress with "on(A,B)". That's annoying.

OK, instead let's try "on(A,B)".

To do this it will move C from A to the table, then move A onto B. Now it wants to solve "on(B,C)" but it can't do that because A is on B, preventing B from being moved. So, as it says in the article, it has to undo the achievement of "on(A,B)" in order to achieve "on(B,C)"

So it has to achieve a goal, then un-achieve it, then re-achieve it. The point of the anomaly is to recognise that in a non-interleaved solver this will sometimes be necessary.

And yes, wee can all see that this particular instance is easy to solve, but this kind of semi-deadlock occurs in disguise in much larger systems. The point of this particular construction is to highlight some of the otherwise non-obvious implicit interdependencies.
Yup. The PS1 also had a major advantage in the size of its games. During that day and age, reliably downloading a 700 MB file was a luxury few could afford, and dial-up connections were still especially popular. These days you can just pop on over to your friendly torrent hosting site and pull down any PS1 ISO within minutes, but the technology back then was far less mature, and potential nasty-grams from AOL for downloading torrents put many people off the idea.

I fondly remember Bleem, and played my real PS1 disks through ePSXe for years, because it turned my laptop into a portable Playstation. That was a neat trick. I still have my original PS1 and it's in good condition, but I'm glad I don't have to actually rely on the aging hardware to continue to enjoy my collection of games.
By all other poverty metrics California is doing okay, I think it's the high housing prices that skew this particular measurement.
As long as hub & spoke works out cheaper (which it will thanks to centralisation & economies of scale) it'll have a place in the budget market
Leave them at home for an alibi.
Wow, the state deems drugs to be illegal, but anarcho-capitalism is to blame somehow.

A lot of people here are so steadfast to the bigger state idea that they see it everywhere as a solution even when it's the cause.
That feels unlikely to me. Why would there be so many people who 1.) have enough crypto to be worried, and 2.) want to talk about crypto but didn't create a separate account prior to this negative article?
It's a gigantic market though. (Revenue of $850 billion in 2016 according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/214544/total-revenue-of-... )

I'm not an economist, but it seems like a 5% margin on a $850 billion market is worth a 10% margin on a $425 billion market.
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"Little Billy - would you mind biting on a bullet for an hour while I check Yelp and online reviews to find the cheapest doctor to set your broken arm."

...said no one ever.
Good read about loyalty: https://gist.github.com/phaedryx/6268820
What sort of optimization might be possible? Also, is there any active development today on separate instruction and data address space architectures?
Could be related to costs vs charges.

Would still be lots of net income though (for the uncompensated care to represent a larger fraction of total costs).

Could also be including Medicare and Medicaid (which the numbers in that pdf explicitly exclude). They pay, but not always enough to cover the cost of care delivered.
Passangers are sensitive to travel time but the constraint is placed firmly on cost, particular on major tourism destinations where airports are already saturated.

Furthermore, some international and national air travel networks are in fact organized in a hub and spoke pattern, particularly trans-oceanic flights where demand is high and cost is the main competitive advantage, including business travel.

It's easy to claim now that the choice that was made a couple of decades ago was the right or wrong one, just like it's very easy to pick yesterday's lottery numbers, but if the world economy didn't tanked and if Airbus's projects weren't with so many delays then I really doubt Boeing's bet would be so right.
My router's on default firewall settings. Deny inbound, allow outbound.
A professor in college explained it in a way that works for me:
C is about the type. When you say "int x" then "x" is an int. When you say "int * x", then "* x" is an int. Humans figure out the type of x by inverting the operations in the declaration:

"int (* x[])(char * )" means that x is something you can index into and call with a string to get an int. OTOH, "int (* x)(char * )[]" is something you can call with a string and then index into to get an int.

The only gotcha is that function pointers and function names are very stubble and the compiler lets you be a little fuzzy on saying x[0]("hello, world") or (*x[0])("hello world")

(forgive spacing. Trying to avoid the formatter)
I just imagined myself in a race with dolphin, the two of us at the starting line, me with a wetsuit and swim fins and goggles, and how intense it would be at the countdown to swim all out dive into some sort of dizzying psych-myself-out spiral, and know that I'd be left in the dust and it would only be so fun for about 1.5 seconds before I'm toast.
I am a little lost. What effect does `typedef int func(int arg);` have on the code?
This is not solvable without moving the blocks into more than two positions.
I've been wondering for a while now why health insurance companies exist at all.

My understanding is that benefits like healthcare were a means to attract employees by increasing their compensation without giving them cash per se. I don't know all the one and outs, but that is my understanding of the actual origin. Of course, like anything, it then evolved.
> They introduce a massive bureaucracy and massive costs and provide very little value.

I very much disagree. When I didn't have medical insurance, doctors charged me twice what they charged the insurance companies. Insurance companies have a vested interest in reducing the costs of medical care, while doctors have a vested interest in increasing them. Screwing patients out of payments is not an aligned business model, but it only becomes worse when you don't have someone there fighting to reduce costs on your behalf, willing and knowledgeable enough to know when a medical test is superfluous, or over-priced.

Doctors are still prescribing name-brand drugs when equivalent generics are available. That's some really basic stuff that we're still struggling with. Forget it when a doctor asks for a test that you don't even know enough about to say what it does, let alone if you're getting fleeced for money. Insurance companies get to be the bad guy in the middle who both doctors and patients can blame for not paying for things the patient shouldn't have to pay for in the first place.

But remove that stop-gap and you're relying on the blind trust of the doctor to do the work of appropriately minimizing costs for patients in the face business pressure to do otherwise. And if there's anything I know about human nature, is that we're capable of doing what's best for us, while honestly and truly thinking that isn't the true motivation. I've had mechanics try to sell me on nonsense that more knowledgeable friends of mine recognized as a scam. You don't want that when it comes to what is already one of the biggest expenses in a person's life.
Ah, my understanding was that OP was comparing utility of the internet then (at the time of the bubble) with crypto currencies now (at the time of the bubble, arguably).
> Also, what's a dairy company going to do with fighters?

Instead of a merger with Kiwi Dairy, they could have had a (very) hostile takeover.
Thing generally about pot and other drugs is, pot dealers generally do not traffic other drugs. One reason is the supply networks are different. With pot dealers usually deal with growers or a middle man directly. High level of trust, makes the business generally safe.

Other drugs you end up tapping into a deep network filled with really shady people. High chance of being ratted on, robbed, etc. Even for those dealers multiple drugs, generally multiple supply networks. Which is worse.
I was partially being facetious :) But you said it precisely, it was via a hard fork, which was agreed upon in a democratic fashion. The person I was replying to was suggesting that transactions were simply revoked from Ethereum-HQ, which is far from the case.
The high health care cost is due to a lot of unnecessary procedures being performed. This can happen in two ways.

First, there are a lot of tests and procedures ordered by doctors that only have some, but very small, benefits for the patients [0]. Doctors are incentivized to do this because each procedure has a set price (negotiated with insurance companies and Medicare / Medicaid) and the only way to get more revenue is to perform more procedures.

Second, patients themselves order a lot of procedures out of fear. Arguably, they can be better off without these procedures. A prime example is end-of-life care, where patients and families often want to "do everything possible" even if those intrusive medical procedures bring nothing but a few weeks of miserable living [1]. Those end-of-life procedures are extremely expensive while having questionable benefits in terms of bringing a "happy" life rather than just a longer life [2].

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unnecessary-tests...

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/03/05/286126451/livi...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Being-Mortal-Illness-Medicine-Matters...
The author has a pretty radical and completely unsubstantiated anti-environmental outlook. He claims that California energy prices are so high because of "liberal" policies including extremely important (but honestly still fairly modest) regulations to help stem carbon emissions - however, California energy prices have been far above the US average for decades [0] and the impact of carbon regulations on the consumer have been minimal, and certainly have nothing to do with California's poverty rate. (Note that most of the east coast lives in states with similar regulations [1], and there too costs have not been pushed onto the consumer).

As to the argument that a ban on plastic bags is causing California's poverty because it hurts the workers in the factories that make them... I think the ridiculousness of that idea stands on its own. California has a poverty problem. It's driven by things like the housing crisis and high consumer prices. Not because we provide any kind of support the poor or the environment.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-capacity/s...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Greenhouse_Gas_Initia...
Stockholm is a great point of reference because it's one of the least "distorted." The municipal dark fiber provider doesn't receive any public subsidies, but also doesn't have public obligations (universal service, cross-subsidizing service for low-income people, building out to all neighborhoods, etc.). It charges what it needs to in order to have a sustainable network, and passes those costs along to ISPs such that the ultimate price of access is highly reflective of the "real costs" of building and operating a fiber network.
Posting these rants daily is not a good look.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mostafab
I was offered a salary. They waited until the day I started to explain that I would be paid an hourly wage based on a 50 hour week with time and a half for the overtime. I would have to clock out for lunch. I walked straight out of there and went home.
> Best solution I've seen from the practicality standpoint is distinct "clear password" button on HP ProCurves that you mention which works without power cycling the switch (and thus downtime).

No downtime == not detectable by monitoring. Port looping by accident is not a problem - when it occurs during operation the network grinds to a halt very quickly after the deed and the hellfire of flashing LEDs should show any operator what is going on, and when it happens during power-up by accident something has gone very wrong...
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The reticence may be frustrating, but it shouldn't be mysterious. Why do we have libraries? Symphony orchestras? Art museums? We should not compromise university to meet workforce training needs, any more than we should pave over Central Park for office space.

That's not to say we ban career training (or office buildings), but some space is and ought to be reserved for other things.

Students seeking higher education for purely economic reasons are wrong to do so, and a gauntlet has been thrown to the business community to launch serious competitors that more directly address its training needs.
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This Op-Ed is picking and choosing facts and associating them together as if there is causation.

Instead of "CA didn't adopt welfare reform ==> higher poverty rates", it could be there are more poor immigrants who move here from Mexico and Central America (along with a myriad of other factors).

Further:
>"Apparently content with futile poverty policies, Sacramento lawmakers can turn their attention to what historian Victor Davis Hanson aptly describes as a fixation on 'remaking the world.'"

The article then goes on to list policies that are more about ideology than making real impacts, including:

>"The political class wants to build a costly and needless high-speed rail system."

Public transportation is obviously valuable and furthers the public interest. Has it been done poorly in California, yes, but if we had trains like Europe it would dramatically increase quality of life for our citizens.

>"enacted the first state-level cap-and-trade regime"

This isn't about "remaking the world" or winning political points. Climate change is real and having real impacts on people's lives.

>"Established California as a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants"

Again, this has very real impacts for a significant percentage of our residents. Not just an ideological fluff policy.

>"Banned plastic bags, threatening the jobs of thousands of workers involved in their manufacture"

Plastic is destroying our oceans and causing significant, irreparable farm to our ecosystems. In the cost-benefit analysis, the externality costs outweigh the value of those jobs. When Florida just got an exemption to prevent offshore drilling off their coasts, conservatives reacted positively, recognizing the trade-offs between one economic activity (drilling) and another (coastal tourism) when externalities are involved.

It's so infuriating how conservatives, who used to be a group that understood economics, now willfully ignore sound economic theory when it doesn't fit their talking points.
many places use simple ink-on-finger from fingerprinting the voter. I believe they're more common in less-developed places. Other places simply accept non-photo id. In Canada most people just present their voter card, which is mailed to them - it doesn't have a photo on it. However even without the voter card, other non-photo id options are acceptable.

For those who insist on it, why is photo-id neccessary? Why is the photo-id level of assurance the bar that needs to be crossed? Any system can be cheated, but some are simply good-enough, and they balance the drawbacks of higher-security systems.

I don't have the same kind of lock on my front door as the bank does to their vault. The lock on my front door isn't perfect, but it's good enough for the threats it's likely to face, and avoids the drawbacks that having a bank-vault lock on my front door would.

I'm also genuinely curious why the people who insist on photo-id for voting believe the threat of voter fraud is high or likely enough to warrant that level of assurance compared to a slightly simpler system without the photo. Do you really live in a place where you'd expect enough voter fraud for it to have a material impact on how your democracy functions?
Washington, DC: $50/mo + tax, gigabit. Promo of 2 mos free brings it to $41/mo. http://www.rcn.com I've been very happy with it, aside from upgrading my modem from docsis 3 to 3.1.
Indeed. Going the extra mile to fix problems outside your purview to benefit the company is a lot to ask individual contributors.

If you want to grow into a different job then that can be a worthwhile route, sometimes. But there is only so far that any individual should be asked to go on their own. Ideally the employee/employer relationship is a two way street, you do work and the management/corporate structure also does work to facilitate you in your work and help you be as productive, engaged, and satisfied as possible. If the management chain is doing no work and you have to pick up the slack or if they are doing negative work that you have to counteract then that's an abusive relationship. If you were doing no work for the company they wouldn't hesitate to push you out the door ASAP, you shouldn't be excessively more committed to the professional relationship than they are. There are lots of other opportunities out there, go find one where your talents are appreciated and complemented by others. You don't have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.
An oped isn’t a great place to learn about this problem. The author has massive incentives to distort or mislead in pursuit of their argument.

For example, I have heard from state senate staffers that although the state is blue, the notion that progressive forces are in control of the government isn’t true. If you think about it, this makes sense. California is diverse so why wouldn’t the politicians be?
> console port set to something other than 9600 8N1

I have some ProCurve switches at work - they auto-detect line speed somehow by making the operator press the Return key twice. If someone can tell me how to replicate this functionality e.g. on a Linux server, here's a bounty offer for some beers...
So, the entire premise of this op-ed seems to be based on this report: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

It should be said that CA does not have the highest SPM.
DC does (20.4 vs 21). But that's not really the point of the article.

I don't fully understand yet why SPM is better than the "official" poverty metric, or why the calculations involved in SPM create such a dramatic difference between CA's official rate and their "SPM" rate. However, I'm willing to venture a guess that it's a fairly complicated interaction of policies and demographics which don't tell you much about the "success" of more conservative policies on eradicating poverty.

Plenty of conservative states have a higher SPM than plenty of other "liberal" states, so it seems to me that using it as an indictment/evidence for policy approaches on either side is fairly flimsy.
That reminds me that the Russians and Americans drink different water on the International Space Station:

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/spaceflight/space-food/am...
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Discharged unto whom, thats the question.
"Also, what's a dairy company going to do with fighters?"

I was facetious but maybe they sell joyrides to tourists. Definitely more fun than Lada cars. I wonder what model they got.
Ended up getting the FMT.
I agree with you that as a term “low six figures” is odd. 300k should mean low six figures.

In the vernacular, with regards to salary, it is used to describe a range between 100 and 200k. So low six figures tends to mean closer to 100k. That’s very consistent in usage.

It is a little odd though, I would agree about that.