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OK, this is odd. It looks like something browser dependent is going on.

You earlier comment shows up with thin spaces on Chrome for me, but not on Safari or Firefox.

I know Firefox handles thin spaces, because it handles this Reddit comment just fine:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/67g28i/because_gra...

I'm going to paste the examples from there here and see what happens:

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Edit: they displayed with the various different space sizes in Chrome, and with fixed space sizes in Firefox (1 regular space for all except 200B and 202F which showed up with no space).

Unlike Reddit, editing does not lose information.

Also displays right in Edge, and in Firefox on Windows. So it looks like it is just Firefox Mac and Safari that are not handling the various space sizes for me.
If I am reading this correctly - the idea is to ensure both employees and customers are aware something is out of stock items. Previously, OOS shelves were filled with another "high" selling item.

This sounds like a great and useful idea. Instead of confusing customers with another "high" selling item, it is better to have the shelf empty.

Though I am unsure of the policy on "temporary OOS" tags - Why not have it there?
Pyramids? Versailles? That is an absurd comparison — working conditions here are orders of magnitude better on every possible scale, he is getting paid good money which he is taking to the bank, and we’re talking what 50 hours a week of work? Plenty of leisure time to keep learning and striving and bettering oneself. Healthy 24 year old male with a functioning brain complaining that life is hard work? Give me a break.

The market provides a pretty damn diverse set of job opportunities. It turns out that shuffling boxes doesn’t require any intelligence and therefore doesn’t pay well. The problem is not that there are entry level jobs to shuffle boxes. Take those away and then this guy doesn’t just have a loser job, he has no job at all.

Make Amazon pay humans more to shuffle boxes and they’ll just have more incentive to buy better robots. Pay humans what it’s worth to shuffle boxes and the smart and motivated ones won’t be shuffling boxes for very long at all. Because it turns out if you have a brain you decide it’s better to learn a marketable skill in your off time instead of playing video games.

This guy has no need for current income. He says his expenses are about 100/mo. He should be working his 50 hours a week and then putting another 50 hours into coursework if he doesn’t like the job he’s got.

His government benefits which he doesn’t want to lose would (or should) not lapse if he has 40 hours of work AND/OR accredited coursework. If he loses benefits for choosing schooling over labor then that is a policy that should be fixed.

There are a lot of societal pressure which is putting 24 year old males in their parents basement working dead-end jobs and playing video games. But very very little of the blame sits on Amazon’s shoulders if you ask me. There are a lot of controversial social theories on the way we’ve been talking to and about adolescent men are driving them into these low self esteem self-defeating positions, and it’s certainly a growing demographic and a big problem. Look at labor participation rates for 20-30 yr old men, for example. Again, Amazon is providing a service here, not the villain of the story.
This. Only reason I read these comments was to see if someone would say this.

The word "crypto" is too important to be lost this way. Any ideas how we can get people to knock this off?
Desktop OSes can be locked down pretty extensively, and that’s where the root password (a concept that includes sudo, policies, UAC etc) comes into play. You can have all sorts of locks that won’t open unless the admin says so. That is the point.

On mobile you get only what Apple and Google give you, and there is very little you can do about it.
There's a fundamental difference: a rollback reverses everybody's transactions, the DAO fork left unrelated transactions alone.

Bitcoin had an actual five-hour rollback in its early days, when someone figured out an exploit and awarded themselves over a billion coins.
As the post you replied to said, it’s a constant factor. You’ll find:

ln(2^n) = n * ln(2)
log_10(2^n) = n * log_10(2)

Which, substituting x for 2^n, gives

log_10(x) = ln(x) * (log_10(2) / ln(2))

you can do replace 2 by any positive number here. So, the value of

log_10(x) / ln(x)

is independent of x. A bit of thinking will show it to be equal to

ln(10)

And indeed,

1214 * ln(10) ~= 2795,338
The only art that gets made when there are no constraints is uninteresting and massive. Size. Modern games are big in every dimension. Atari had a medium that artists had to work within.
There's a good MOOC on Coursera on applied discrete optimization that uses MiniZinc: https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-modeling
Yep there was a big scandal in Scotland when a some what sketchy journalist got a job in a call centre and did that.

The irony was the press office was on the floor above and didn't notice.
Oh thank god I'm not the only one who thinks this. It drives me crazy!
> I think people like him might very well help keep disgruntled young men away from the extreme right, by offering a moderate alternative.

I hope he does the same thing with people who are flirting with the extreme left. I hope many of them follow his advice and are smart enough to read and understand The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks.

We have serious problems in Western society, but the extreme "solutions" suggested by both of these parties will result in a complete and utter disaster for everyone. Even worse, we are even already seeing some of the effects of some of these "solutions" in action.
You're rolling your eyes, but you're not that far from wrong. Earth's geological processes have buried most of the heavier elements in the core, where it's beyond reach. The concentration of platinum-group metals is far, far higher in metallic asteroids than it is in the Earth's crust.
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What you say is generally true, full stop.

However, the centrist objection to today's leftist critical theory post-modernist rhetoric is not (as is too often asserted) "well, a little anti-semitism / sexism / racism / homo- and transphobia / genocide advocacy is okay in the interests of compromise and harmony with Nazis". This is clearly absurd, and no one reasonably would believe this. Those who spout reprehensible ideas should suffer social consequences. By all means, do not invite them to participate in your community.

The centrist objection is that the Overton window of ideas that are acceptable to express is becoming increasingly narrow while the reaction to ideas outside of this narrow band of acceptability is becoming so extreme that people who are merely misunderstood will have their lives destroyed.

Never mind "Nazi". Never mind the well-meaning Christian who has no personal animosity towards individual gay people but who sincerely believes their God said that homosexuality is a sin; we're talking a misunderstood joke (Justine Sacco; the fellows who were fired for their overheard "big dongle" joke); we're talking people appropriately using the word "niggardly" (meaning 'miserly', in use since the 1400s).

Calmly stated ideas, even the most reprehensible, must never be suppressed through violence or state sanction. Throughout history, ideas that have moved us forward ("It's wrong to keep other humans as slaves.") were met at some point with violence and suppression. A climate where the majority are convinced that deviation from a narrow band of acceptability must be met with extreme violence will suppress good ideas along with bad ideas.
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I don't have the link offhand but all privacy coins can be unmasked by large enough organizations. Monero is currently the most resilient to direct analysis.

Keep in mind that enough data points from outside the system can be used to associate an identity with an address.
Yet most of us probably wear textiles made in a mill in Bangladesh and use electronics manufactured in East Asia at a huge environmental cost.

The only thing you're doing by supporting "Health and Safety" laws is offshoring suffering.

The only way to stop the cycle is to consume less, but that seems to be a foreign concept.
Depending on which country you speak of, it was usually just the pro-establishment, pro-rich part of the political elites, as opposed to the whole country "begging the US".
Virtually every industry has jobs like this, and many of those jobs are more physically demanding and much more dangerous. (And in some cases, pay much less).

People seem happy to complain about warehouse working conditions and pay, yet give no thought to where their packages, vegetables, fruits, grains, fish, gas, oil, shrubs, houses, lumber, etc. come from.
Given a space elevator, there are some neat tricks that help in de-orbiting and orbiting material at the same time.
Essentially, you connect two equal masses with a tether, one you want in a higher orbit and the other you want in a lower orbit. With the tether in place, both masses rotate around their common center of mass. When the masses have 'switched' places, you untether them.

I don't recall whether the thethers need to be affixed to the space-elevators to keep them in place.
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I don't know why you were downvoted. I am of the same opinion for when it comes to humans, action speaks louder than words.
Central planning was dictating how much of every item to produce and where to distribute it and what price it would be sold for. For whole country for 5 years. This is exactly opposite of OTS.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosplan
He couldn’t get unemployment benefits if he chooses to leave a job, but if this job didn’t exist then he could, so it’s very misleading to suggest that if Amazon hadn’t provided this job he would have “no job and no benefits”.

(I do think that the unemployment benefits system is shitty here in the UK, I certainly wouldn’t enjoy having to rely on it, but that’s a separate topic.)
Try having a conversation with Europeans about how many trillions of dollars in reparations they owe black Americans and black Latin Americans (those that are descendants of slaves), for the millions of slaves their various nations/empires transported from Africa to North and South America over centuries.
Not for every instance, but at least once, I wish I had given the money right back.
If he can't find a new job now, why would you think he's going to find one if he quits? The smart approach is to look for a new job while working at your current one. And he can't find one!

Otherwise, he'll end up spending those savings just living and looking for a job, and the government won't pay him any benefits because he quit of his own volition.

Now sure, he can learn a new trade in his free time, but the reality is that most people don't realize that's an option (they think they need to get a few years of college or something), can't learn anything useful, or they're too tired to do anything after a hard day at work.
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Their fear (or lack thereof) and the real danger is not comparable.

To believe you aren’t in danger does not make it so.
I too like to dabble in masochism
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"useless to pretend that's not the case" is a dumb, paint brush response. Yes, many, if not most, capitalists do so. That said, consumers don't tend to reward good behaviour either. Even when I put a minimal amount of effort into making purchases from "ethical" companies, I get people questioning what the hell I'm doing. Why don't I go for the cheapest, brand-namest, most-marketed, child labor made, etc equivalent from <Big Corporation Co>.

If anyone is going to start rambling off about the evils of capitalism, I suggest they stick their foot in their mouth until they've already stopped buying from companies that benefit from exploitative behaviour. But since I've met almost nobody who falls into that category, then it's time to admit that capitalists aren't inherently unethical, it's just that consumers, including you (and even me) have decided to reward the ones who aren't.
AFAIK, it’s the ecosystem and availability. Let’s say you’re a Dell shop and you’re using mostly PowerEdge R730s (one of their middle-of-the-road 2-socket options). Your choice right now is Xeon E5-2600 v4 family, because that’s what that platform supports. These aren’t motherboards that you just pick up at Fry’s, they’re designed as an entire system, which takes a while to get going. Dell is not going to invest the R&D money unless they have demand, but there won’t be much demand without stories of success in the field, so we’re at a bit of a chicken and egg problem right now.

Speaking of Dell, they are launching some EPYC stuff: https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/poweredge-servers-amd-epyc-pr...

But again, getting the ball rolling might take a couple of years. Look at what happened with Opteron as an example.
One can say that of pretty much any company that manufactures anything outside of the US.
No his life sucks. But he's a whiny piece of shit. He doesn't have to live with his mother, he doesn't have to accept government benefits and he doesn't have to work at Amazon. He just doesn't want to try so fuck him.

I work under harder conditions, more hours a week for about the same money as this asshole. The difference is I don't cry like a fucking baby to the internet about how hard my life is.

He just sounds fucking pathetic. It's called dealing with your shit. Everyone needs to fucking do it if you can't that's your problem.

Everything he said was just a fucking excuse as to why he can't make his life how he wants
It's a language for specifying problems that can be solved through constraint satisfaction. I'm unsure if such languages are even Turing complete. Their main advantage are insanely succinct problem specifications. F.e the n-queens problems: https://github.com/MiniZinc/minizinc-benchmarks/blob/master/... MiniZinc solves it for boards up to 100x100 in under a second.
Posts on creating a successful startup seem to all suffer from a lack of 2nd order thinking. Even some of the posts from PG. I’m sorry, but it is blindingly obvious, IMO, that startups should focus on surviving, whereas someone like Jeff Bezos has to think about how to serve an ace (and can suffer a good deal of failures before it would threaten his company).

The unending stream of platitudes that come with these posts are also quite obvious, but also somewhat useless: don’t hire too fast, but don’t hire too slow; find a market, but don’t copy your competition.

I think PG said in a post once that the YC partners joked that their job was to give founders advice that they would then ignore. So that makes me think that the advice/wisdom people should be dispensing/pursuing is: what can you do to make sure you follow all this good advice in a disciplined way? It seems like a lot of intelligent people fail to do so, why? How can you make yourself the exception?

I don’t necessarily have the answers, but from my limited experience the best advice you can give an aspiring founder is:

1. Don’t found a company. You have a good idea and you think you can execute? Great, go find someone who is very likely already doing it and help them out. You’ll have way more fun and probably make more money.

2. Okay, you absolutely have to do this? The thing you have to really nail to follow all this great advice is culture. I have been at many startups, the ones that suceeded all had one thing in common: a highly functional culture. What does that mean? It doesn’t necessarily mean everyone having warm fuzzies and a Swedish masseuse. It means that information in your organization can move effectively from anywhere in your company to anywhere else and people will feel empowered to act on that information. This is not the default mode for any organization. The default mode for any organization is territorialism/feudalism. Humans have evolved to be zero sum thinkers, they can’t help it. You have to create and organization that fights this constantly.
One issue that I nearly always find missing in intro discussions about linear regression is the near universal assumption of no error in the abcissal/"x" values. And while this is true-ish for time series data, (we know for certain which day we collected the data on - yet the same hour every day?), I'd be rich if I had a nickel for every time I saw standard linear regression done when the "x" had significant (and known) error. In which case you're biasing yourself unless you use some sort of 2d regression, like Deming.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming_regression
sometimes I order stuff from china and I get it in less than 1 week even if it feels like I don't even pay for shipping, why don't they make more warehouses overseas? (For example, I ordered a cheap webcam on Aliexpress for $2.50 including shipping... I got it in about 5 days)
But he is saving money when many people are only making it paycheck to paycheck. That luxury is not afforded to all.
Sure, he could have it worse in that he could be like many others in his position but without parental support. How would he be able to work 50 hours a week and physically go to school 50 hours a week? Amazon controls his hours not him. School controls course hours not him. School also doesn't necessarily lead to a better job. It also costs money. If he wasn't living at home it would cost at least the same amount he's making from Amazon.

What do you do for a living, may I ask? Do you have a college education in your field of work? Who paid for it? Who paid your rent, food, and other expenses while you attended school?
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A health care system that isn't a cause of stark financial terror for the poor would have prevented his death. He didn't go to the doctor because he was poor and uninsured, until it was too late.
I haven't checked the source code but generally calls between runtime boundaries are costly (JS to WebAssembly) so it's critical to do all the work in WebAssembly and just return a complete solution at the end.
He doesn’t indicate that he wants to do either of those anywhere in the article?

And he could go to uni if he wanted to, quite easily- any student loans he borrows to cover fees wouldn’t start being repaid until he earns 21k/year, so it’s zero risk for him to borrow for a degree.

He saves 1k/month, a room or even a studio flat in Southend is about 500/month, so he could move out anytime if he stays at his current job.
Switzerland has been searching for a new USP in finance since the end of banking secrecy, which, together with digital and regulatory change, will marginalize our private banking market position that was so incredibly profitable in the past.

So politicians look to either Fintechs (which are as weak as our startup culture in general) or the hype around the ‚Crypto Valley‘ in Zug which wasn’t homegrown and is primarely driven by a scam-friendly environment provided by government & regulator in combination with path-dependency.

Unfortunately, this will likely end even worse reputationally than being the token (ha!) money hiding place. See the Tezos debacle which is only a glimpse into what will happen when the cryptocurrency house of cards falls apart. Id rather have them be a bit more cautious now as is Swiss tradition and be ready for the more serious ‚rebirth’ afterwards.
I'm confused. If someone requested a certain pronoun, and someone else politely but repeatedly refrained from using it, would that be harassment under the new bill?
What if he could not get that education because he did not have the money? And now he can't get it because he's working full time? And if he quits, once again he does not have the funding to get that education, and if he gets a new low wage job, he doesn't have the time. How do you suggest one escapes this circle?
maybe he wouldn't have been so good had he not been a psychopath, so the talent is its own downfall in a way
"At some point you have to have confidence in what you know (right or wrong). You can't be trying every darn thing."

I view it as test. When an interviewee or a new guy at work tells me something that I don't know or think is wrong I always give him the benefit of the doubt and verify it together with him. If he is right I know we have somebody who brings something to the table. If he is wrong that's clearly a negative that counts against him. If that happens a few times I will stop listening to that person.
Because Venezuela and their currency are a joke?
There are a bunch of interesting ways to break down homicide rates. I find by cities to be the most interesting, I think correlates stronger to how safe I "feel" in an area compared to national rates.

Top homicide rate for cites in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate

US cites (sort by murder):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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I've been in this position a few times, one way or another. It's a bad position to be in. If you're wrong, you're labeled as unknowledgeable. If you're right, you're labeled as "not a culture fit". I've found that no matter how humble you try and be, the interviewer is isn't very gracious when they're right and isn't humble enough when they're wrong.
Maybe everyone should be taught about world religions to disabuse us of the notion that astronomy was a force against religion, rather than motivated by religion.
Sounds more like a sneaky paid ad for Malwarebytes to me...
Writing a native app isn't much harder than using React though.
Yeah, exactly. BIP39 is a common protocol for mnemonic keys also supporting subkeys. Hardware wallets like the Ledger Nano S have support for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, and they let you sign transactions without ever exposing your private keys to a general purpose computer. And yeah, you can always just keep your private key in any way you want—it's just an n-bit number.
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I like the policy because it reminds the store management and employees of the importance of getting some whatever (onions, etc.) reordered ASAP. And it doesn't paper over the problem. Also in a move that is only partly evil, it helps enlist customers in reminding employees to do their jobs. Which yes the customers would do anyway, but in this system they do it earlier. And with more standing, because pointing to an empty dedicated space is more compelling than wondering out loud to the produce worker whether the store even carries jicama or whatever the product is.

That being said, I have almost never seen empty shelves at any Whole Foods store. And I go to several of them pretty regularly. Maybe my local ones are just well managed. Or maybe they have an easier time in California since some produce can be sourced locally.
I find this claim hard to believe - what products are you using to make the comparison?
Is it not possible to right click the extension in chrome://apps or the button in the toolbar and select "Remove from Chrome..."?

I previously had Stayfocusd and I blocked myself from uninstalling the extension (as a test) by blocking chrome://extensions, but then found a loophole using the method above.

Edit: Confirmed. What this article talks about is a total non-issue. All extensions can be removed by right-clicking their toolbar button (btw they HAVE to have a button) and selecting "Remove from Chrome."