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It also doesn't hurt that Walmart effectively hit its moonshot. It murdered a million small businesses / local stores / mom & pops and in the process did make things a lot cheaper for many people.

They optimized the supply chain of the traditional retail model to its limit (and then over it in legally questionable ways) and changed how people buy a lot of things forever.

That being said, Walmart wasn't really innovating in doing it. It just did what everyone already knew worked but did it with less empathy and more scale. Its much the same way the current Amazon store site for regular things isn't innovative - they took something other people were doing and mixed in some scale and evil and came out on top in that regard.

To Amazons benefit, it was/is innovative in web services, book sales, warehousing, etc. But as a retail store? Until recent years they just took the Walmart model gone digital and ran with it, and somewhere along the way took the Ebay model and pasted it in as well.

It might also be to Amazons benefit that it was founded within months of the first ecommerce websites rather than some thousands of years after the first store chain or a hundred after the first integrated supply chain.
CPUs weren't evolved.
They aren't unregulated. All the laws apply to them. They just are new enough so that governments haven't gotten up to speed in enforcing the laws with respect to them yet. But there's no reason whatsoever to believe that they won't eventually come up to speed or that somehow their nature will render those enforcement efforts impossible.
Given how many data breaches we have, and given that it only takes once (ie: most won't change their name/address), I'm pretty sure in 10 years we'll have laws in place giving you free protection or limited liability or some combination of things.
What I'd like to be able to do is load ActiveRecord (or any other v. heavy lib) asynchronously in non web-based apps so that I can paint the UI quicker. By the time the user will do/need anything db-related a proxy object should be swapped out for an actual ActiveRecord object. Using Rails' ORM is so nice and ergonomic but it kills start-up time with all the file requires, Bootsnap helps a bit but I'd prefer not to have to use it as it is yet one other moving part to consider.
Likewise. Frankly I didn't enjoy The Left Hand of Darkness when I read it, but I think about The Dispossessed all the time.
Are those technologies all legitimately the best, or is the Matthew Effect part of it?

The recent notion that the only good tech is popular tech is, quite frankly, aesthetically repulsive.
This is the weirdest update I've ever applied.

Download>Click install>30 seconds later it reboots>Apple logo gray screen I see "installing software updates" and a status bar that gets 25% of the way done and then the screen goes black, fans go high, then a reboot>screen is still black, fans go high, 3 minutes another reboot>screen is still black, fans go high for 30 seconds and now nothing for the past 10 minutes.

Power light is on, caps lock key does light up, the keyboard lighting comes on if I touch keys and I can increase or decrease that lighting with the proper key, but no backlight. WTH?

OMFG, now 15 minutes after starting, more fan noise for about 30 seconds...

So it's still doing something, but with a black screen.

No change 35 minutes after starting the update...
I filled out paperwork in which I divulged my pre-existing conditions, including my asthma, and that was calculated into the premium price I paid.
To me, this conversation represents the two classes.

One guy is living life probably pulling in upwards of $150,000 a year (or living in a lower cost of living place with six figures income). Simply budgeting well will cover all these things. And another thinks that "budgeting" means you don't get to eat on Mondays so you can keep on bills.
You absolutely should get time and a half for work over 40 hours. The problem is that there are many places where that extra work is done without extra pay, most notably software.
"Clinical depression" means you've been diagnosed by a qualified medical doctor. The litmus test is whether you're experiencing symptoms that meet the criteria. Patients receive comparable treatment, whether the underlying causes are presumed to be situational or organic. The many psychiatrists I've seen acknowledge biological, psychological, and social causes. Everything I've read on the subject indicates that most psychiatrists do.
Yes, the city would be to blame. But so would Amazon. Amazon is run by people who know right from wrong, and are fully capable of taking responsibility for their actions.

Amazon absolutely shares some blame with all of those. You cannot condemn one entity for not having "personal responsibility" and ignore the responsibility the other entities have in contributing to the situation.
The population of Zurich seems quite small to support a large amount of developers. Everyone here is comparing London, SF, and other places that have over 4 million more people.

Zurich also has a high cost of living and well above any US cities.
Thanks for reply. Since I am learning deep learning, I still need to read and run Lua Torch code every now and then. But if I have choice I choose Pytorch.

P.S. I did not downvote you. Somebody else did
At least with your given example you effectively cannot reach the scientific knowledge required to manufacture composites and especially turbines without already having a complete understanding of steam power. One is substantially less complicated both theoretically and implementation wise than the other.

And, from a business perspective, if you don't grab the low hanging fruit now to stay competitive your competition will and you will find yourself obsoleted and bankrupt on your quest for airliners in the age before steam trains.
Crystal is not a replacement for Ruby. In the same way that many Algol-like languages are not a straight swap for each other. Don't get me wrong, Crystal is a nice idea but say goodbye to all that yummy Ruby meta-programming which is one of the key things what makes the language so appealing in the first place.
The notion that SF somehow is the place to look for best practices is also a bit disturbing. It simply just makes the most noise.
Really happy I don't have to drive past that anymore.
143m users times $8000 makes for a pretty penny. In fact, it would bankrupt the company, as it should.
When you are driving, you're, well, driving. Most of your mental capacity is on the task at hand. The remaining capacity drifts from subject to subject with nothing to anchor it - no note taking, very limited communicating. Your basic needs (mental rest, hydration, toilet) are pushed to a rest stop schedule. Every stop sign, right on red, or on ramp is a new negotiation. Even choosing your music is a big task leading you to settle for the radio.

In a train you're simply transported sitting down. You can text, have a face to face conversation, look out the window, go to the toilet, buy reasonably priced drinks, read or work as you fancy. The occasional change between trains is a stronger punctuation in your journey than your car leaving the freeway, and still only requires a few minutes of cursory attention every now and then.

Edit: I didn't even mention the timing aspect! In Japan you could get the same train every day and arrive on time every day. Commute on the roads and you will always be wondering when exactly you will get to work/home and what you will do with the little random slither of spare or lost time. Of course, the accelerator pedal is right there so you always have the option to drive a bit more aggressively, so you will consider it every now and then, rather than thinking about something more meaningful to your life.
Bitcoin isn't like real money though. Take the US dollar - whatever happens, something like 300 million people and tens of millions of companies will still need to pay taxes in that currency. That's a big baseline demand, before you even consider the goods and services available in the economy that can be bought with US dollars.

Whereas everybody trading bitcoin or accepting it as a payment method could switch to a different cryptocurrency tomorrow...
but sometimes it is a binary choice. Leaders can see their community dying after the former big industry left -- with lots of luck and years of a strong economy they may be able to attract some replacement industries that keep the town prosperous (but not not overly so).

Or they can hit the "Amazon lottery", bringing in billions of dollars of investment and 50,000 high paid jobs (plus all of the ancillary jobs to support these high paid workers).

So a community could very well face a binary choice.
If you like Sci-Fi that likes to speculate on the nature of sex and gender, also check out Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis saga.
Less than 2% of "money laundering" is ever caught. That's despite the enormous time, money, and loss of dignity and privacy burdens, which are overwhelmingly borne by people with no connection to crime whatsoever. "Anti money laundering" is a parasite on humanity. They should let it drop to 0% and not bother with any of it: they doubtless keep lying to themselves that they are doing something worthwhile; they are not.
The paper he is using is 53 cents per page according to the provided link. Ink cost is a bit harder to determine without knowing how many prints per pen. He is including free shipping, could easily be $5 to $10. There is also the matter of the time taken, the overhead of space and electricity and that doesn't even acknowledge any creativity. I'd estimate the break even point to be around $20-25. Much less than that and it would be more sensible to not bother doing anything at all.
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I'm kinda surprised this wasn't already a thing - I've never seen a "buy viagra here" comment on GitHub so I assume they have had some anti spam system in place for ages.
Keep 6 months of expenses in your emergency fund.

You have to have sufficient income to consistently cover basics with money leftover. Some people simply don't have that.
Depends on the country. In New Zealand it's not common to be paid to do post grad.
Loved those books.
I'm getting some unbearably slow startup times on a new window. Even a fresh uncustomized profile is moderately slow to start.
Wrong. In Germany most people pay with cash.
I would have to say Java. Between the tutorials, Language/VM specification & library Javadocs, it's the most thorough I've seen to date...
I love everything I've read by her, but one of her short stories "Buffalo Gals" was such a cool and unique story that I still think about it often:

https://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-Gals-Other-Animal-Presences/d...
This seems like really bad advice on several fronts. For one, sleep deprivation has severe negative side-effects and is implicated in long term decline of overall health. For another, this is a big risk for people with bipolar, many of whom are unaware of that fact and may think they only have depression. Aggressive sleep deprivation can trigger a psychotic break in people who are susceptible, which is a shockingly high percentage of the population, especially along with other factors like stress and certain kinds of (very common) drug use. That's something you generally want to avoid at all costs.
Maybe it is different in your state. In mine, FL every September I get a notice asking if I want to continue to use employer provided healthcare or would I prefer to find something on the exchange. Employers of a certain size are compelled to offer health insurance and employees are free to choose something different. That doesn't sound like it's tightly coupled to me.

Finally, according to our healthcare rep, no one has been penalized for not taking a healthcare plan. The IRS sends out scary notices every year that they swear to god are going to assess penalties this year. And they haven't so far.
Bitcoin doesn't have a strategy. The "value store" narrative is a post-hoc rationalisation for its continued, yet less and less rational, existence.

The proof that Bitcoin was intended as an alternative to cash, and to be used for small, everyday transactions is right there in the name: It's Bit"coin", not Bitgold, or even Bitbill.
> and 50,000 high paid jobs

Er, “as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs” is what Amazon claims HQ2 is planned to grow to over an unspecified time horizon. “As many as...” is marketing weasel words for “for some number definitely not exceeding, and probably much smaller than...”; it sets an upper bound, but counts on people treating it as an expected level.
What is the "android widget"?
Apple's signing the updates anyway; HTTP will be much more performant.
I can do this! Had no idea it wasn't common.
You dodged my first question. Apply the same thing to car insurance. Are poor people generally incapable of attaining the "expertise" to be able to purchase car insurance?
You don't need to have an MBA, and you don't need to join YC. Given that, most people who don't have an association with a prestige organization will fail. More than the "most" who will fail even with the association.

Major, serious funding rounds would be picky with who they take money from anyway. If accredited investor laws were removed in the USA, competent round seekers would still be looking for people who have the most money, the most industry connection, the most advisory capability.

Taking money from every Jack and Jill both doesn't include all of that secondary value, but can be a net negative because you now have people involved at an early stage that are a distraction, and have invested what is likely a larger stake of their personal wealth in your venture, which will have their incentives (safe return, stable financial outlook) not aligning with yours (spend to grow, take risks).

ICOs so far have just been an end run around regulation, and we saw an immediate return of all of the dark practices that the regulations are in place for. It democratizes investment for the general population the same way Las Vegas does.
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I've heard it being poor practice to discuss this with coworkers because it can lead to resentment and pettiness and such but I've never had a problem talking with friends about such things.
Just the latter really. Your unspent transaction outputs (UXTO) would move to your friends address. Bitcoins are really UXTOs.
Long term use of lithium may also lead to kidney problems[1][2]. Monitoring of kidney function is also needed over a long time[3].

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25735990/

[2]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S008525381...

[3]https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bipolar-disorder/treatment/#li...
If only such genius could be put towards doing good..
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Great photo series. It's worth noting that not all of the planes are there permanently. Many are there in long-term storage and would be flyable with some maintenance.
staying awake for extended periods leads to a manic state. sure, it beats depression, but it's not necessarily a good way to persist either.

indeed, a blurb in the article mentions this, only once...

> Particularly for anyone who has bipolar disorder, there’s a risk of it triggering a switch into mania – although in his experience, the risk is smaller than that posed by taking antidepressants.

i don't think that's necessarily true only for those with bipolar disorder though, anyone sleep deprived long enough will end up in a manic state. perhaps some are more susceptible to it than others, or others may be more adept at navigating that headspace, than many.

i find some of my most productive hours are late at night, after i've been awake for a while... for one there are less distractions from everyone else, but primarily, it's much easier to get into that "zone" when the brain is tired. or maybe it's just a honing of focus over time, and sleep resets that ability and all the short-term memory that has been built up during the day. shrug
Beautifully written! I will take note.
Exactly this!

Stratechery has a giant blind spot about Amazon's strategy, completely missing their #1 objective: customer obsession.

Bezos was clear about this from the beginning [0] and he repeats it every chance he gets [1]. He's not just bullshitting, this is actually the strategy, and it fucking works!

Stratechery opined that the Whole Foods deal was about putting Amazon products in physical stores. Of course not, it's the opposite -- it's about bringing awesome Whole Foods products to far more customers than Whole Foods reaches today.

Now Stratechery says Amazon Go is about eliminating cashier labor and leveraging fixed costs. Ridiculous!

If a well-paid cashier costs $15 per hour and can scan 12 items per minute, the cost is only 2 cents per item.

In fact, the cashier savings is probably more than offset by additional labor on the sales floor and to maintain all the sensors, cameras, turnstiles and software.

This is all about Bezos' customer obsession. If I don't have to wait in line, I'll happily shop Amazon Go every time I can, multiple trips per week. As a customer I'd be thrilled to eliminate the dead time of waiting in a line.

[0] 1997 Letter to Shareholders https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312513...

[1] 2016 Letter to Shareholders https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/z6o9g6sysxur57t
> Yeah, and they've promised to work on performance for ages now with almost
> no improvement.

That's simply not true, there have been a _ton_ of improvements that we made
over the past 2 years. A very simplified example:

A specific GitLab.com issue in December 2015 vs January 2018 (I can't seem to
find what the exact URL is):

2015: http://stats.gitlab.com/1902794/2015/12

2018: http://stats.gitlab.com/1902794/2018/01

Apart from that you can take a look at any of the past release posts or merge
requests tagged with "performance" [1][2] and you'll see that plenty of
improvements have been made over time.

> Is ruby really such a mess that it's impossible to run an app with
> reasonable memory consumption?

Ruby is not really to blame for this, instead it's mostly Rails and all the
third-party libraries that we add on top that consume so much memory.

[1]: CE improvements:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests?scope...

[2]: EE improvements (some of these may be merges from CE):
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests?scope...
> People try any justify their behavior, but statistically bike riders regularly risk death.

The story about the dangerous jaywalker and bicyclists is a big falsehood if you look at the data. As I said; cyclists have the same behaviour than others have in traffic. The truth is that cyclists live longer, even with all the risky behaviour you think cylists are prone to.

The thing that is risky is spending ones life in a car, on so many levels. You refrase things so it seems like cyclists are to blame for being killed by cars when we know that is actually not the case. Just because the party line today is that jaywalkers and cyclists are worse than others doesn't mean there is any actualy evidence for it.
Saw you guys on Product Hunt!!
No prices on the shelf in this article: https://www.recode.net/2017/5/24/15683852/amazon-books-nyc-t...

Maybe it depends on the state, and its laws on price marking.
“The mov-only DOOM renders approximately one frame every 7 hours, so playing this version requires somewhat increased patience.”

lol
As a "not healthy" person, suffering from bouts of depression and heavy demotivation (especially during winter months), missing out on a night of sleep can put me in quite a positive mood.

But it's mostly a rather "hyped up" feeling, so it feels like the opposite extreme of the depressive phase.

When I was younger I'd regularly miss out on a night of sleep for exactly that reason, but as I get older I notice side-effect of this "treatment" of the physical kind. My teeth, which are already damaged by years of nightly gnashing, will start to hurt easily, with a higher chance of gum infections after I missed out on a night of sleep.

That's sadly something not mentioned at all in the BBC article, while my mind feels like it could be awake for days on end, my body doesn't really like that strain, especially as I get older.
'Fraud Protection' ???

I'd love to hear how they think they can justify that.
Very, very few banks lend in that scenario, which are typically zero or near-zero collateral.

Yes, if you have plenty of receivables, and they're diversified, you can find banks to fund some working capital. But not operating expenses.
>Using the NSA backdoor in TOR

hurr durr
The fact that conditions such as sleep apnea (insufficient nocturnal brain oxygenation) lead to depression and anxiety in a significant number of cases illustrates that depression isn't always an indicative of a social problem. It can also be a strictly biochemical issue (there are a lot of things that affect neurotransmitter efficiency for instance).

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Anyone here read the title and thought it was Canada?

[actual question, I'm curious to know]
I enjoyed reading The Dispossessed, though I have also been known to characterize it as, "A Sci-Fi universe where communism actually works, hence the 'Fi' part." However, I've recently read Thomas Sowell's book about the original formulation of Marxian economics and philosophy, and I've come to the conclusion that the technology of the late 21st century might possibly enable a viable communal society through the replacement of the distributed optimization of the market with AI, as Ursula K. LeGuin presaged in The Dispossessed.
Would love to understand the rationale for the down voting here. It would seem to be that the suggesting of disobedience to Government is immediately wrong.

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Should say 2015.
Looking at the roads it seem like driving cars is taking no neurons at all.
Hah. Could have used this a long time ago. Used to print manuals after hours with a copier that punched holes, and used 3-ring binders. But that's annoying, having a binder full of docs. Comb binding wasn't much better. Saddle-stitching was okay, but you had to use 11x17 paper and didn't work for anything of reasonable length.
> It can also be a biochemical issue

Presumably, it's always a biochemical issue, though sometimes the biochemical state may be triggered by events in the social context.
> You cannot launder money or evade tax using gold.

You can't? Seems to me it's reasonably handy for that purpose. There are some better alternatives, but gold's not terrible.
Basically, if ~~the FCC~~ Verizon and Comcast loose in court, ISPs will be able to do as they please only in states with no net neutrality protections. They will have to follow both the FCC and state law otherwise.

In effect, this is highly likely to backfire. ISPs will have to spend more money than they claimed they did (before the repeal) in order to meet regulations.

I'm personally a bigger fan of mandated line sharing. This would actually foster competition. Furthermore, if the FCC were to protest it, it would be irrefutable evidence that they are captured and that NN wasn't repealed to foster competition at all.
Also I believe there's quite a few military b-XX there kept for spare parts.
No, because you're making a service company. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. The org chart you need for product and the one you need for services are different. The necessary mindset of the employees are different.

Not only that, but the buyers of product and services are often different as well.

Sure, building up a huge services company lets you squirrel off some funds for product development, but how often do you see this in practice? The only example I can think of is IBM, and they're moving in the other direction.
Why do this?

It's not like Ursula K. Le Guin's work was directly focused on allegory.

Feeling absent from two systems was a major point of The Dispossessed, not the content of either systems.
It has been a bone yard long before 2015 and will be for long after.