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> [Amtrak] was really pleasant. It just takes forever.

Absolutely -- IMHO for mid-distance (200 mi to 500 mi or so) trips, Amtrak is a really underrated option. I travel semi-often from Pittsburgh to NYC (450 mi) and choose train over flights because it's actually not that much slower (consider to/from airport, security, and (de)boarding, as you say) and it's much more comfortable: I can walk up and down the whole train, with no fasten-seatbelt sign to stop me; there's a cafe car; I have about 2 feet of legroom; there is reliable AC power and functional wifi. I just make it a work-from-train day and all's well.
Quoting you, quoting the article:

> It seemed that whenever we had our monthly engineering all-hands meeting, the new hire announcements featured three more young white guys
Many bitcoin proponents believe that bitcoin can fully replace the current financial system so whenever the energy consumption problem comes up you should expect to hear someone talking about how much banks spend on air conditioning every year.
I think it's a fair question; each transaction of paper money causes wear so it might make sense to amortize the cross of minting over each transaction. Plus transactions between banks would use some energy.

One can only assume the energy cost is negligible per transaction compared to bitcoin though, simply because if you scale up the transaction volume of bitcoin to what a real economy would need it's more than we produce.
I'm not saying they're dead yet, just guessing that it will be a massive turn off for new Youtubers. Perhaps we will see that platform soon.
Recently YouTube started pulling off kids eating Tide pods video. Can AutoML figure this out or do they use manual labor to do it? Couldn’t this have been done before? I mean can it detect stupid/dangerous videos automatically and pull it when it threatens to become an epidemic?
Let’s not forget that US-based competitors are getting the very same tax cut, while foreign-based competitors likely had more favorable tax environment to boot. Creating the jobs one doesn’t need by one player increases that player’s costs and affects margins long-term, meanwhile competitors who did nothing can simply lower their prices.
I'd say it's for intermediate level. Let's say you have already finished 1-year long Udacity self-driving car nanodegree and reached intermediate level, then these lectures will be understandable to you. If you are total beginner you are going to be lost, but if you are an MIT newbie, you might be fine with some work in your spare time. To understand some subjects like Deep Reinforcement Learning you might need some related graduate-level coursework under your belt. It's not bleeding edge though, so researchers might think the lectures are trivial.
are you sure?

all of these surely have a substantial eco footprint
- money production, for both paper and coin
- armored cars picking up cash and bringing to the bank
- physical locations, banks, check cashing places
>At $35,000 per Model 3, you could buy 1.8 million new Teslas using that money. Add some solar panels to each purchase and you could still buy more than a million -- more than enough for every San Franciscan to get a brand new Tesla.

Which would be useless without the billions spent in maintenance every year for the roads and other maintenance. Its such a silly argument. If you include the full cost of airport construction it wouldn't be so pretty either. Having heterogeneous forms of transit is an intrinsic benefit as each are better under certain weather conditions and use cases.
How the eff would he know that? If you've spent your entire life in one state, and it changes, how can you possibly know what was the normal state?
Trump is an oaf, a bigoted blowhard, even a monster, and it should be no surprise that his comments are totally un-presidential.

But all this self-righteous indignation is a bit much.
The simple truth is that some countries can indeed be fairly described as "shitholes", and rarely is it down to just poor weather or ugly landscape.

This article seems to focus exclusively on making out Haiti, and other poor counties, to be the victims of evil wealthy western powers, but there are usually many factors affecting wealth and poverty, including climate, location, natural resource wealth.

Of course colonialism and "western imperialism", globalization, geo-politically induced instability and conflict, etc, are definitely huge factors, and very often cited as here, but I think another large, and often ignored factor, is the society itself; the culture, government, institutions, and civil society and community spirit (or lack thereof) that the people of that country build for themselves.

Not that I've been to Haiti, I'm sure it's as good a place as anywhere if you ignore the lack of "development".
The article doesn't really go into what mafias are actually doing to stay alive. What cyber crimes are the mafias in control of? Are any large "cyber gangs" not connected to local mafias?

I have always loved the fantasy of the mafia just from a job advancement and loyalty point of view. You start at the bottom, get rewarded for hard work and being intelligent and eventually get "made". Then you have power, unconditional respect, and life long guarantees of a job, security, and family. Getting "made" should be a real thing in the corporate world.
Tether: $200M issued in under 24 hrs, $350M total issued in the last 4 days
It depends on how far you want to go.

The cost per transaction would be interesting in real terms.

What's the comparison between:

- Manufacturing physical currency / Manufacturing the hardware to mine coins
- Cost to run POS systems in retail outlets / Cost to run bitcoin network
- Cost to run global fiat exchanges (i.e. wallstreet) / Cost to run global bitcoin network

Obviously you could drill down as far as you wanted. I'd imagine it would be quite difficult to draw up such a detailed comparison though.
> Of course bus lines would be much cheaper, if we can convince people to use them.

Pretty easy - electric buses with seats that resemble business class instead of Ryanair.
I guess I've only ever worked at "magic" companies, because I've never found a company where this _wasn't_ the case. You shouldn't be so quick to dismiss anything outside of your experience as "magic".
The moving business is all about licensing. What state lines are you crossing, what are you moving, what states are your trucks certified in (emissions etc), how many guys do you have in the truck...
Mainly because it's hard to suppress laughter if you think about it at all beyond a surface level. See discussion in another thread. I don't want to repeat myself.
> that will end up playing to many altcoins' strengths

So what, then the difficulty gets adjusted and that's it. People won't stay on altcoins except for speculation, they're not usable anywhere except on trading platforms or, in case of Dogecoin, on Reddit. The "big whales" BTC, ETH and LTC have sucked up the market - most of the other currencies can't even be directly traded against the dollar but trading has to be done against BTC... thus, whenever BTC drops, everything else drops.

The problem is/will be that BTC has lost its value as an usable payment instrument due to high tx fees, confirmation time and the ridiculous price volatility. I hope this will reverse a bit.

[disclosure: holding ~500€ in BTC]
This is really interesting. It reminds me of a controversial psychological theory, called "bicameralism". This theory suggests that in the ancient past, all humans heard voices in their head (which they interpreted as the voices of gods) because the two hemispheres of the brain were not integrated together, so the other hemisphere's thoughts were experienced as a separate voice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
I'm pretty sure ground zero would be in, uh, Vietnam.
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This is one of my biggest gripes about the tech community. We can't wait for tech that may or may not come to fruition when we have working solutions now. Don't let great be the enemy of the good.
This is anecdotal but my family operated a store in a rural vacation area and over half of our customers used cash. In the 2000s, we'd have to drive the cash 30+ minutes to the bank, twice weekly to mitigate the risk of a robbery. We sold the business, but more electronic transfers hopefully reduces the required driving miles, and overall cost to transact in cash.
Starting in the midst of a plunge, this looks really hard to explain. It’s entirely feasible that the Tether project exists to prop up the price of Bitcoin and to protect the Bitfinex margin float.
Lol, only US Republicans can see US Democrats as "tax hungry". Both the Clinton and Obama administrations were extremely business-friendly.
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A good Maillard reaction courtesy of a cast iron is pan can go a long way to remedy that.
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But now you're not talking about a "right", but merely a biological imperative. Nothing that separates humans from, say, spiders. And then your "natural right" to property extends no farther than your ability to defend it from someone bigger and meaner than you.

I can shoot you, and then your land becomes mine, by "natural right". Is this really the hill you want to die on?
Was this thread flagged? It was momentarily the top post.
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Are you kidding me?

Cost to print/replace notes?

Cost for teller's, ABM's, security personnel.

List goes on and on.

As if you said "0".... you think the Laws of Thermodynamics can be violated.

The quality of posts here is awful and manned by the technically inept.
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I've come across the need for a really highly interactive, performant, maps solution that works for desktop and mobile to include custom data and events. What should I start looking into first? Are there any good resources for a better high level understanding of the problem?
Got an example within the US? Because your example just seems like Japanese culture - which isn't going to change in the US regardless of tips.
Basically, but there's a wonderful thing called a short sale. If tons of people sell Google short, or threaten to do so, it's very likely have an effect. Also, live long and prosper.
Monetize and monopolize are synonymous in Silicon Valley. Read Thiel's Zero to One.
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https://webopsweekly.com/ covers some similar ground.
Mapbox is really good.

http://mapbox.com/
Then you are conceding the point you are countering.
I’m disappointed only in how few titles are listed here. The impact RAND had on how we think about complex topics and the caliber of people they engaged was simply amazing. So much of their work from their heyday in the 1950’s seems either comically obvious or comically arrogant now, not because they were clueless but because they so completely shaped how we think today that we can’t imagine being the first to ask those questions that way.

[edit added] And yes, I do get there were a lot of projects RAND was involved in that people could reliably and reasonably dislike or find highly objectionable. For me, as important as that is, it doesn’t change the historical significance and importance (and interest) of the work RAND did, both good and bad.
Work for exposure shrugs
> I didn’t know anything about moving laws, and one day the state police came and looked at our paperwork. They found seven moves done without moving licenses, so I had to go to court, and I paid a fine of $100 for seven misdemeanors.

Well I can understand the licensing requirements to drive a truck, a taxi, or to work as electricians or plumbers, no one wants untrained drivers or tradesmen on the road due to safety - but why is a license required for moving?!
That does not say, "0% of non-white non-males were hired for an entry-level position".
The bit on a moving license was interesting. One one hand, I'm sure there's a decent (if opaque) rationale behind it, whatever it is.

On the other hand, it was clearly a burdensome and annoying regulation to jump through, although clearly not crippling.

How could government constantly reevaluate law to determine a careful balance between cost and benefit?
Not to mention adding all of the overhead for legislation, note and coin design, sorting, transporting, anti-counterfeiting...
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> For eminent domain there's little you can do _legally_

Directly, sure, but there's plenty of ways of legally challenging the project itself, or politically challenging it, that don't rely directly on legal challenges to.the eminent domain action. But if you can legally challenge aspects of the projects central to the purpose for which they are using eminent domain, it's as good as a fire t challenge.
There's no enabling here in the usual sense of the word, they just made it cheaper. It'd be like a headline "copious butter enables little Tommy to eat vegetables". Apple could have repatriated that money at any time, and likely would have if they didn't know that they could hold out for a feckless Republican administration to give them a big tax holiday. Pretending otherwise is a fiction that supports repeated corporate tax rate reductions and encourages companies like Apple to make use of elaborate tax avoidance schemes.
My car has steel panels with white paint. It's still a white car.
Sure, if you’re at the point where the performance of Caddy is a limitation, by all means switch to Nginx. My sites aren’t even close to that limit though, and it’s a lot simpler to start out with Caddy. No sense in doing unnecessary work before you need to.
what about running bank of america and visa?
Glad this is a thing. Waiting to see feedback, might dabble a little. But I have family who would be open to just about any suggestion (midwest+sw US). Lots of tight knit support groups that prevent the younger ones from relocating unless they have a handful of siblings or similar. They're bored out of their minds and without hope in some cases. I tried to get my brother into A+ type material as a way out of warehouse-type jobs, being that computers are how I made it anywhere. I understand those don't sound like great employees, but on the contrary, if it's a legitimately good option it could do wonders for their morale and they'd be loyal. So kudos to Google for getting started with this.
Along those lines I think the reddit mobile site is particularly bad. Every action takes ages so you think it didn't "take". Then you press Back nav or buttons. Then, in the last moment just before your fingers hit the screen, it changes to the "page" you requested, and you navigate back to your original page. Frustratingly, the SPA navigation doesn't give feedback, like plain page-based navigation would. Makes you want to throw your smartphone out of the window.
But of course Apple isn't paying no German taxes. They didn't pay taxes on any of this overseas money, and they had the gall to ask for an "repatriation holiday" so they could pay overall zero taxes on that huge heap of money.

Now they are paying the US gov. Unless they can keep coming up with more Irish tax avoidance schemes, going forward they will probably also have to pay in Europe.
> Sincere question: what's the energy usage for e.g. USD or EUR?

Using VISA transactions for fiat currency, BTC uses 5K times more energy per transaction than VISA.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3p7e/bitcoin-is...
The difficulty here is operationalizing the terms involved to make the point of semantic domain vs pixel domain meaningful at all. But I think this point makes it a substantive distinction: have a representation in the semantic domain with respect to the content of the image.

There are various semantic features of an image and we presume that our visual system is extracting and operating on these semantic features. So it seems important to ask whether the features causing the misclassification can be represented in a semantic domain of the image. Shapes, (relative) sizes, gradients, high level patterns, etc are examples of semantic domains. There seems to be a distinction between the kinds of optical illusions humans are susceptible to and the kinds CNNs are. In the graffiti illusions, the placement of the image that causes our 3D object recognition system to kick in can be described through angles, lines, focal points, focal lengths, etc. These are all semantic features of the scene depicted in an image. Contrast this with CNN adversarial perturbations which have zero semantic features that we recognize. This seems like an important result. It means that our visual system is robust against certain classes of adversarial images, namely the small imperceptible deltas that trip up CNNs. To trip up our visual system requires certain combinations of semantic input which are harder to exploit (larger delta is harder to exploit).
It seems you're presenting 'what a critic is' as if it's the definition, not presumably what it is - one of a large number of different/competing ideas of what critics are/should be.

E.g. (spends 2 seconds googling) Wikipedia says "art criticism, which is concerned with establishing a relative artistic value upon individual works with respect to others of comparable style, or sanctioning an entire style or movement from the standpoint of its history and of its major scholars." - ok, not authoritative, but at least establishing that a view/understanding contrary to yours is widespread: criticism is centrally concerned with whether the piece is good or bad.

And the sentences on reviewers seems resentful, even angry.

But I'll give you a Thumbs Up :-)
I think because shady movers can hold your stuff for ransom once they have it on their truck and out of your sight.
Nobody cares enough about your "discussion" to CTRL F a rant that you're not even confident enough to link to.

I doubt you can think about this topic beyond a surface level given that it's unlikely you understand tax code beyond a surface level.

The net result is that Apple pledged to invest $350 billion in the US economy, capital expenditures that would have instead gone to their operations in China and Europe were it not for the long overdue change in US tax code as it relates to cross border taxation.
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Yes, also when we call programmers engineers, same same.
The cost is unlikely a legal issue. In California eminent domain powers are strong and the adjudication process usually swift. The cost is likely part of evolving political calculus--project developers paying out more than the courts would require as a strategy to relieve political pressure. The political backlash against HSR is greater than expected and growing. HSR is likely paying out more money to fragment and quiet opposition in the Central Valley.
The main purpose of Persona was cross-site login, and it seems like there's a million options for that: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Steam, etc etc etc. Broadly speaking, you can support a lot of these platforms all at once with OpenID (don't know too much about OpenID though; not sure how prevalent support is).

I think Persona failed because it simply wasn't the easiest option for the end-user. When given the choice to create an account on Persona, or sign in with the social media account they already have, most people will follow the principle of least effort and use their existing social account.
Buried lede IMO (if factual):

I can say that I have personally spoken to researchers from top universities (Stanford, MIT, Harvard) who have seen the “artifacts” that the article references, and other similar ones that are even more secretive (and perhaps more functional).
The main reason for bringing the cash back to the US is to pay it out to shareholders. They couldn’t do that while it was overseas. Now that it’s taxed anyway, shareholders will demand their cut.

Maybe the shareholders “believe in America” and will invest their gains in the country. Or maybe they’ll stash most of it in tax havens. Nobody knows — but it’s disingenuous to argue that somehow 100% of the repatriated money will be invested when America’s wealthy classes haven’t been doing that previously either.
The expression is "jump through hoops". Sorry to nitpick.
The lights at the bank of america HQ don't keep themselves on.

Financial transactions are more than just exchanging pieces of paper in person.
Can confirm, the moving industry is still a 'good ole boys network.' I've seen quite a few well-funded startups in the space fail and one of the culprits (among many) is usually because the movers are very skeptical of new services.

Seems like a lot of her early success was choosing the right franchisees. It's notoriously hard to grow a moving company. Would love to know more about their process back then.
With the slogan "Make Play Discover" it seems like Nintendo is marketing this product as something a half step away from games and partially oriented toward the educational STEM toy market. I get Lego vibes from this.

This product may also allow Nintendo to gain a presence in retailers that they haven't worked with before. Indigo, Canada's big box book/toy retailer, stocks the Kano computer kit in their toy section but no other video games. I wouldn't be surprised to see Nintendo's Labo series appear there too.
> Unfortunately sometimes there are things that will make management care a lot about a browser that they really shouldn't.

I never said management should or shouldn't care about this or that browser. I never said anything about browsers being new or old.

I said that developers should be testing with whatever browsers management cares about. If management care about it, and there's some justification, then add it to the spec.

> unfortunately, especially in enterprise, the browser version is often locked to something quite old. One of our clients has locked to Chrome 48.

That's an excellent justification for having Chrome 48 compatibility as part of the spec, so you should already be testing your sites with it. What has that got to do with user agent strings?

Is Chrome 48 even old? I tend to ensure IE6 compatibility, unless I have a good reason otherwise (e.g. voice calls over WebRTC, or something). When I'm using w3m, e.g. to read documentation inside Emacs, I occasionally play around with my sites to ensure they still degrade gracefully.
Apple has come to the forefront as defenders of users privacy, net neutrality and generally having a fairly laissez faire attitude towards the app store (at least as far as games, IAPs, and questionable apps) so this is going to raise questions. If they seem to block more researchers apps this, for me, will requirs sufficient explanation. With the few facts already public I am already pretty disappointed in their handling of this
> they fill with people pretending to be organic product recommendation

Only if it's free to post, right? If no one has skin in the game, then you'll get spammers. Consider a simple system where people pay 10 gold to post and 1 gold to vote. At the end of the month, the pot of gold is paid out to the top posts and the voters who made the best bets.

I am not a game theorist/economist, but perhaps there is a set of rules such that every actor in the system is rewarded for their proper usage of the system, otherwise they get penalized, but this is only possible if it requires stake to be in the system, which is impossible in "free and always will be".

It needs to be expensive to go against the community, which is why actions should cost a nominal amount of money. If this is the case, dividends or incentives could be paid to users for participating in a productive protocol.

(Edit: Of course, there will always be the people who have tons of money and can manipulate the system, but how is this different than people with tons of money who buy account farms and drive impressions, e.g. fake news, ads, etc.?)

Isn't Youtube actually trying something like this, where community members can get paid to be moderators, essentially?