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It's definitely a US only problem. There are, for instance, multiple competing competing brands of EpiPen competitors in Europe. In the US the FDA's mandate concerns safety only and private entities can sue it to force it to do its job if they think it isn't. Which makes it easy for big companies to launch lawsuits alleging that their potential competition can't prove that they can produce drugs as safely as the incumbents.
>Wouldn't libertarian philosophy, taken to its logical end, imply private schools and private roads, where you pay whoever owns the school/road to use it?

That is correct, though the government still has a major role to play in enforcing their citizens rights. If a private company were to build a poor-quality and dangerous road, this would amount to an act of violence towards the drivers, thus the government would need to ensure that standards are met. If education is defined as a right, the government would need to ensure that private schools are meeting the standard held in it's definition.

Of course this is a simplification, but in a way I view these services as already being "privatised", except one organisation is granted a monopoly: the government! They indeed have some of the same conflict-of-interest that would scare some off private corporations replacing them; we all know that local politicians can be very selective in which stretches of roads receive maintenance, especially coming up to election time.
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I actually liked some elements of the mobile experience:

* Hamburger menu upper right (90% of people are right handed)
* Sticky top menu with breadcrumbs
* Consistent back button behavior

Only nit was large graphics/icons and requirement to click on them to "reveal" the law. That content should have been front and center on home page with drill-links to details.
> Large amounts of traffic means more tolls collected. They could get by fine on a normal toll amount. $15 is indefensible. Why is the answer "screw the poor"?

The answer isn't "screw the poor", because the poor aren't generally driving into Manhattan. They're taking public transit.

Driving into Manhattan is already incredibly expensive. $15 is a drop in the bucket compared to what people already have to pay.
No, only those 3 particular exploit methods. P3 branch predictor peculiarities were known before, but were refuted as unexploitable.
Actually quite a lot of food is inspected by the USDA.
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I work at a company where a “take home” assignment is a routine part of evaluating candidates who have made it through the initial screenings and face-to-face discussions. However, we set up all such assignments as small contracts (say 2 - 10 hours, depending on the candidates availability, the position, etc). We pay market rates and try to be as accommodating as possible; sometimes, a candidate just can’t fit it in, so we find alternatives or take more of a risk when we offer them a job. In general, however, it’s a great system for us and, I feel, very fair. I see it as a cost of recruiting and risk mitigation.
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There are risky risks, and there are affordable risks. One of the risky risks -- at main job, I am also very reluctant to commit to any new projects without emphasizing that I can not guarantee result but only effort up front first. Luckily, I often get managers to acknowledge my emphases on the effort part, which somehow reduces the risk of unknown unknowns. But I also had many occasions that I succeeded to convince managers or coworkers to alter their ambition with my emphases. In other word, my job has some room for risks and my finance has some room for risk of jobs, I guess I am lucky.

Now once the risk reduced to affordable level, my curiosity often takes over and I often gets excited to explore my unknowns.

It is sad that for some people that all they see is unaffordable risks and they have suppressed and forgotten their curiosity -- the source of life's excitement.
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When I was a kid, people were doing the exact same thing, only with the U.S. mail, dollar bills, and much bigger pyramids. I'm kind of surprised it took this long for me to hear of a social-media/online-payment accelerated version.
It's not like we can control the racism levels in other countries, so why does it matter?

However when you look at countries we materially support (in their carrying out of racist actions) like Israel, liberals do care very much. So it does seem like there's some consistency there.
Can you point me to the physical limit?

"Thermoelectric efficiency depends on the figure of merit, ZT. There is no theoretical upper limit to ZT, and as ZT approaches infinity, the thermoelectric efficiency approaches the Carnot limit. However, no known thermoelectrics have a ZT>3."[1]

There seem to be some in promising materials with a ZT of 2.2[2] which is around 20% similar to a solar cell. It seems again if more R&D where applied we might be able to make that cheap and practical.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_materials#Devic...

2. https://newatlas.com/most-efficient-thermoelectric-material/...
The tax stuff is a bit of a pain, but you can buy things (eg Stripe plugins) to make collecting the necessary data much smoother.

In short: If you're supplying digital services to consumers, you need to charge them Value-Added Tax (VAT) in the country they're in, not the country you're in. If you're supplying to businesses, you charge them VAT where you are. You need to collect certain evidence with each transaction, to prove which category/country your customer is in.

The search term you probably want is "VAT MOSS". This officially refers to the "Mini One-Stop Shop" provided by HMRC (the British tax authorities), which tries to ameliorate the situation. You still need to charge people the right amount of tax, but then you can just upload a quarterly spreadsheet saying how much revenue you got from each EU country. But "VAT MOSS" is also used as a catch-all term for the whole cross-border digital VAT kerfuffle.

It started out as a well-intentioned attempt to close a tax loophole, but it was clearly drafted by people with no understanding of how computers work. (There are actually "FAQs" about how, precisely, to handle a German citizen with a British SIM card making a mobile transaction from a train journey crossing the Italian-Swiss border...as if this were something a website could reasonably detect.) But, as I say, there are decent solutions you can use, and you just spend a couple of days implementing one of them.
So you are saying any marketplace (e.g. Ebay) is actually responsible for a merchant using them to facilitate fraud? Why stop there? Let's find the merchant processor complicit and the shipping company and the ISPs. Heck, I'm sure we could extend the net further if we wanted. Point being, unless the marketplace is actively courting merchants they know are perpetuating fraud, then how are they at fault? If they get a report of a seller that is selling counterfeit goods, they take them down. What more do you expect of them?
Speakeasy, a former big ISP, presented at a Java users group one time about a logistics app they had written specifically to remind them when it was time to harass Covad about missing deadlines for wiring and circuit connections.

I’d had to deal with Covad before and so had my friend who used to own a mom and pop ISP. I thought the fact that someone wrote a management app just for them was funny and sad, brilliant and justified.

A few years later they sold... to Covad. D’OH!
0. fucking put the pressure on Intel and other chip makers to have microcode updates ready by NYE, like, you know, 6 months after the first report

1. make sure all tier 1 companies involved are equally patched and on the same page as far as mitigations go before EOY, then involve tier 2 companies (see news on "the impromptu war room") a full month before the embargo deadline

2. not commit or patch anything or fly commented diffs around in the freaking public LKML; git branches to be tested and secondary mailing lists can be private if only for a brief period of time

That's definitely not what happened, and probably the dirty details have not surfaced yet. I can't wait for this to be reasonably over so we can start to read post mortem on the whole process.
Stiftskeller St. Peter is much older, according to this list: before 803.
Surprised that NYC doesn't have service in tunnels. CTA has LTE everywhere nowadays. Granted, most of CTA's network is above ground and there are only ~20 miles of underground tracks...
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No, but a more reasonable level of regulation like the EMA uses would make things a lot better. There are levels of regulation between Anarchy and Stalinist 5 year plans.
I was imagining widening the roads and replacing crosswalks with bridges while holding everything else pretty much constant. I spent a month in a city like the second picture, at a hotel for job training, and it was annoying that I couldn't safely walk right across the street to the stores over there, but if there were just some bridges it would've been fine.

Something else that I've imagined would be cool is a system of skybridges mirroring the sidewalks. Maybe even in that case pedestrian traffic could be removed from the street level, so pedestrians and vehicles would be fully separated, working out best for everyone.

Another interesting idea is a second network of roads on bridges that maybe go through buildings, which has happened a bit in a few cities. Unfortunately both of these ideas are probably too expensive in practice.
When you are successful and have stood the test of time, who needs a website? In 100 years or so, there probably won't be such a thing as html in popular use any longer.
In my experience as a Brooklynite, the time trade-offs really depend on the time of day. Outside of commuting hours, taking a car is usually faster than taking a subway for me.

There are, of course, other benefits of the subway, including lower costs and the possibility of doing something else like reading.
Out of interest, why is the target at Amazon here? This could be for any means of purchase and not just Amazon. Targeting Amazon and pointing the finger is calling Amazon the bad one, but actually it's an import issue.

You could suggest it's their fault, but that's a pretty long chain of blame which isn't really right.
It contains all the information you need, loads immediately, etc. It's a perfect web page.
I can’t imagine where you came up with that. In 1980, 80% of Manhattan households did NOT own a car. There has never been a time where the statement “everybody owned a car” was remotely true in Manhattan.
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Anyone stupid enough to do this is getting off very cheap. If anything this will save them money in the long term as hopefully they'll only be swindled for the original $150.
Ok, but that would apply to any traveller, not just ones that have been flagged.
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But maybe there is a positive side to this...

50 years ago this scam would have been targeted at middle aged people, in the prime of their scam detecting abilities.

These gen-z kids are getting hit with this stuff earlier, but will possibly spend more of their lives as savy, post scammed individuals. So the exposure leads to greater societal intelligence.

And because the scam is aimed at the young, the amount of money they are losing is generally in the hundreds, not thousands of dollars, and has less of an effect on their overall quality of life or their retirements.
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I learn the damndest things every day. Thank you for a slice of history of my own home town.

It is a nice little park (and still there).
> The only reason [bitstream formats] aren't revealed more often is for legal, not technical reasons

Any idea what these reasons might be? I mean, it's the vendor's format, why couldn't they reveal it?
As long as you always return to your vehicle on time. Otherwise that free parking turns into a $115 fine followed by a $185 tow plus the $10 Uber ride to get to the NYPD impound lot downtown.

Source: Just got towed. I was fined 15 minutes after I was in violation and towed 5 minutes afterwards.
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Depends on what you want to do. You get a lot built in with Django, but the learning curve might be a little steeper because there's more to learn. On the other hand Flask is relatively light weight in comparison and you can extend the functionality such as authentication/apis, but it's up to you to implement that.
I think it is interesting if the technology did it, but I'd want to know what incentives people would have to use it, since it would just make things more complicated.

Maybe it lowers the cost of transferring assets, and there is the flexibility transferring to anyone on the planet. Maybe the use case is having funds in an escrow until both parties can verify that the transaction is cleared. I think there are trust companies that already do this. Maybe if people are motivated to deal with the legal(or private entities would exist to fill the need to simplify it) themselves it could work itself out.

It could be that through this method less lawyers are involved. If the transfer of assets can be standardized or at least abstracted away for all/most countries in one system I could see why people could be interested in it.

Also if your looking to sell an asset, or looking to buy an asset that you expect to increase in value, it might be interesting to have a global market to purchase/sell these assets with price signals for less risky or higher return assets.
yes, it is much more complicated in Europe, but you can rent software that handles most of it (and you should).

If you cater to companies, it is easier. You ask for the VAT number and only if the company is from your own country, you add the VAT, otherwise its 0%.

If you cater to individuals, you need to use two different mechanisms to identify where the user is from (IP Address + Geo location and another one) and store this information, then you need to charge the VAT from that country and you need to signup for the EU Mini One Stop Shop (MoSS) with your local tax office, report your european VAT earnings quarterly.

Selling to a customer (business or individual) from outside the EU you can charge 0% VAT, so that is easy as well.

I recommend that you use either Recurly or Quaderno in combination with Stripe, because they generate the invoices for you and handle the VAT calculation perfectly.

I don't know about other countries than Germany (were we are located), but we also have to submit monthly VAT report to our tax office, all in all we pay our tax attorney 400-500 Euros per month, plus another 1000 for the yearly report. Maybe other EU countries allow startups to report quarterly or yearly? Idk.
Ah, missed that, thanks. I assumed it was in the paper itself.
The motorcycle class I took in the US did in fact teach this.
>I once read part of a book from 2005-ish about the singularity whose basic premise was that by ~2050 or so we'd have enough computing power to stuff orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude more power into a now-sized CPU. And this was in a completely serious tone, mind you

I think by 2050 that will be more or less true compared to 2005 when you consider GPUs/TPUs etc
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I gotta say, I sorta miss assembling my own computer on the first day of work. I don’t miss the bloody knuckles though.
And gerrymandering of catchment areas id assume as happens in the UK.
The 3rd law is just wrong.

Yes, we spend more time on other sites and therefore, we are used to the UX patterns used on other sites, but that doesn't mean that all other pages are doing good.

Actually, we do not choose the sites we are on purely based on UX patterns. Instead we choose the sites by the service/functionality they are offering.

So assuming that other pages are doing good UX and inventing new patterns will irritate users might be a good advise for junior UX designers, but UX experts should always question the status quo and search for improvements. So defining it as a law to stick to the UX patterns of the majority of sites is just wrong.
$150 is probably not that cheap for a teenager; and I bet that a lot of them will re-"invest" into multiple stacks once they succeed once.
Inflation measures are supposed to control for improvement in product quality & quantity so that you can represent the GDP of 1852 in 2018 dollar terms.... In 1993, a macbook pro would have been very valuable.

If you have a time machine with 20 laptops in the boot, that's enough to let you live like Biff in the almanac timeline. Does that mean anyone with a macbook is a millionaire in 1992 dollars?

This is not a solvable problem. It works ok for YoY inflation (that's the point) but, the phrase '2018 dollars' gets meaningless as we try to represent earlier years. Saying we are n% more wealthy than people in 1300, is just cheesy journalism mostly.

Anyway (long preamble, sorry)....

Just like trying to adjust inflation by 70 or 700 years is difficult, trying to account for hours worked and/leisure is difficult. Too much has changed.

Woman joined the workforce. Children left it. Work got homework added. Training became more of a leisure time activity. Commutes got longer. Lunches got longer. The first one is probably the biggest.

Btw there's an illustrative thread running through both... Childcare and elder care. These were done at home (mostly by women) as non economic activity. Now these are jobs. The generate GDP, work hours... But, children were being raised before. They are being raised now. It just didn't used to be counted as GDP/work hours.
Yes, your local government certainly has other concerns in mind when they need to decide whether or not to expand the local airport...For instance, the noise level would go up (from the airplanes as well as the passengers driving to/from the airports), and the natural environment might be affected...

Then there are all sorts of complications...I think that's why the parent thread poster (i.e. candiodari ) identifies government as a crucial factor in this A380 ordering issue...

Smaller commercial planes would have more advantages in such case, as they are more flexible for any existing airport with existing plane certification...

On the other hand, although I have never boarded an A380 so far, I believe it has its own merits in terms of comfort and stability as well as safety and fuel efficiency if the airline could always have it fully booked...But those are not the immediate concerns of the government -- that's a problem when you need to reach consensus on some meta-issue, which could be decomposed into smaller issues where each one of them is determined by different and relatively independent parties, in a parliament-like setting (as in that distributed system model).
Excuse me if I withhold my applause.
Agreed. I did about 4 of those in a few months and got rejected each time, with no explanation at all. One of these was for a teaching position. Really a waste of time if you ask me. I learned nothing and wasted many hours. If a company wants to see what my code looks like, I have many projects available on GitHub.

The only time I did one of these and actually got accepted, they used it as a justification for negotiating down my salary. "Your code was about 5 out of 10 on subjective code quality cool points, so we're cutting your offer by $10,000." Then they cut me loose after 6 months because the project was "over." This was for a full-time position.

Now, if I get asked to do a take-home assignment, I ask instead if I can pair program with an engineer for an hour. If not, then I probably won't even continue because they clearly don't respect their engineers' time.
> Capitalism, as a system, is awful at allocating this work that people love to the people who love it.

It's significantly better at it than the alternatives.

Even UBI. Sure UBI sounds great in principle, you'll be given enough to live on and you can spend your time doing whatever takes your fancy, but in large-scale practice I don't see it working.

Making the majority of the population dependent on the government for their income is not something that has historically worked well.
If you export everything as tcl scripts, it actually plays very nice with vcs. Just a bit hard to set up initially, but you can even use make files to generate projects and such
Right, and it's clearly not a reference website, considering it's a random selection of a few UX guidelines.
Not cool Mozilla. You have more work than employees, and typically, your employees are of high standard. You aren't even driven by profits, or so you claim.

Whatever new direction you're aiming for, not being able to redeploy existing employees and letting them go is a failure on your part!
On the shipping front there is a nice expression that you only air freight the 2 Fs “fresh flowers and f* ups”. I would say though that shipping large goods internationally is easier in my expiernece than small individual orders, for that amount of shipping cost it is far easier to get a good service that can keep things moving than for an individual order.
Why would Ethereum fare better than Bitcoin? Every exchange that uses Tether also trades ETH.
If you believe in any form of consequentialism, unilaterally disarming is rarely the moral choice.
Yea this would be extremely OP in ck2.
Yes what I really want is something like Pluto TV but with a better content selection.
The troubling part for me is:

"Top managers show up for work at about 8am and frequently don't leave until 10pm. Most of them will do this six days a week — and there are plenty of examples of people who do this for seven. Engineers have slightly different habits: they will appear about 10am and leave at midnight."

This dude wants his fellow Americans to work at least 84 hours a week, if not a "modest 7 day work week" of almost 100 hours. Life is too precious for that sort of nonsense and I can only hope that this fellow and those like him lose their power and capability to influence society.
Amazon has done what many others dream of: I basically forget that I'm paying for Prime every year. And I perceive that it gives me enough value that I don't mind, but I've never actually checked how many orders I place each year vs. the delivery cost for them if I didn't have Prime.

By comparison, Google sends me an e-mail every month reminding me how much I'm paying for Google Play Music. I don't mind it, but I wonder if it affects their retention rates to do that.
> I also don't condone piracy, but to imply that we should feel sorry for these companies who are barely scraping by is blatantly dishonest.

As someone who spent a fair part of my career in gamedev, yes the publishers are taking a large share but the companies that are building the games are barely scraping by.

Most gamedev companies are 2-3 milestone payments away from bankrupcy, which is partially why the publishers have such leverage. Implicitly condoning piracy by saying the publishers make a ton of money still ends up hurting the studios in the process.
Never understood why prime is so cheap in Europe. In Italy is 20 euros, and was 10 a few years ago. Sure, prime video here has a very weak offer, but still free shipment for 20/year is a good deal.
How does the scam author profit? Seems like all the funds 4x150 = 1200 get distributed back into the network.