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Anecdata- i visited a small game studio once- they had been bank-rupt three times, always ex-changing the "boss" of the studio and refounding the company. There answer on why some of them where working a learning game besides there main title.

"Oh, that is a x-mas title. Grandma buys them for full price, the kids hate them and never play them past the second level, so you get away with basically buggy, shitty uninspired work- and can use the bucks to work on the real game."

Takeaway lesson- if entertainment is not a first class citizen, nobody who is not a adult forcing himself to learn, will ever use it.
maybe dropshippers should be more creative and start another eCommerce web hosting site.
> The US, in particular, spends more and sees worse outcomes than other counties.

The person who has the most skin I the game, the patient and premium-payer, is not in the room when payments are negotiated. I don't think the U.S. is an example of enforcing skin-in-the-game.
Autocompletion for JS libs has been around for at least 12 years in various tools. It's not that hard of a problem to solve for a standard library if you follow a convention or two.
I'm reading this now and it's excellent. It has the important characteristic so many popular revisionist histories lack, restraint. Later day American archaeology practically oozes with opportunities to speculate. Actual physical discoveries beg to be contextualized by our modern imaginations. Mann does visit some of these tangents of the imagination but he is also very careful to bracket these with explanations of what is known for a fact and what is not.
Thank you for thw book recommendation.
I'm working on opensource iOS Bitcoin wallet. Anyone can build it and run it
I'm working on opensource iOS Bitcoin wallet. Anyone can build it and run it (if you care typing a couple of commands on terminal). SegWit-ready; Replace-By-Fee implemented; arbitrary fees. Built with ReactNative & Expo.

Heres the link: https://github.com/Overtorment/BlueWallet Early Alpha, but pretty usable (use it myself in the first place). Still, don't store large amounts. Would really love some contributions on the project. Its ReactNative which means Javascript is used a lot, so if you wanted to jump in Bitcoin development - nows the change. Feedback appreciated!
Because technical people aren't often incentivized to prioritize the business' actual needs. This isn't about skillset, it's about how long you're going to stick around at the company if you're doing a different job from what management expects you to be doing.
So every running back and lineman that lead with their head every play all get ejected for targeting on the first play of the game? Or do you recognize that targeting is applied very subjectively and usually involves someone defenseless on the receiving end.
And all of that works just fine with CSS. CSS has problems, but more to do with scoping or lack of a grid-based layout system (until now).

When I see devs saying "Just do it all in Javascript" I have to assume they aren't actually that familiar with CSS. First off Javascript simply manipulates CSS properties anyway when it comes to styling, and writing a system that completely ignores CSS and renders its own way is far more complex without any clear benefit.
For the wrong reasons. I dont think they should be mandatory at all.

Apply the same reasoning: check.

But this case is even worse. Its the sec regulating a foreign exchange that has foreign investors. You think the SEC can go and try to do that on alibaba?
You should be able to use readline rather than ncurses.. Or for dpkg, you could also use the noninteractive frontend.
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Formulating/eliciting requirements is aided by technical knowledge not so much in understanding the potential solution space (though that has some value) as in knowing what questions implementers are likely to need to have answered, so that you can both provide a good starting point (it's still going to be iterative) and avoid doing unnecessary work or overspecifying in a way which constrains implementation inappropriately.

But if you have non-differentiated team roles, developers should be doing that, not the PM, and if you differentiate roles, analysts and not the PM should be doing it. Product (or project, either way) Management is a distinct skillet from business/system/domain analysis, and your PM has no more business doing the analysts work than coding. The PM has an oversight role and might ask questions to refine the analytical work product just as they might on a demo of a software product, but they aren't the person who should primarily doing the work.
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Why have a gun if you are unwilling to pull the trigger, amirite.
>Everyone has the right to life. I cannot imagine how callous one must be to willingly deprive fellow human beings of that right, purely because it is not how the economic system works. If we have the resources to provide healthcare to everyone, then we should. No matter what the cost.

I disagree on so many levels. First its most of the time the right to comfort (not hurting, being sick 3 days and not a whole week, etc) or the right to live carelessly (thinking about tobacco, obesity and their consequences here), not the right to life. Many people accross the globe don't even have access to our level of care yet they still live. Not everyone is sick either.

I also don't think we should provide to everyone. I don't think that having sick people being able to lead a normal life only thanks to modern medicine, and thus having the possibility of spreading their bad genes, making their descendance dependant on modern medicine, is a very sound choice to make as a species.

As for the public pot, considering that europe's population's getting older, staying longer alive, not being especially healthy (obesity rises too), I don't think that the point where it's not sustainable enough for our societies is very far.
I don't follow. A ornery mechanic can refuse business all she wants. And doctors often refuse to perform procedures they don't want to perform for financial or professional reasons.
The govt blocking the access of similar foreign apps (Whatsapp, Skype etc.) to the Chinese people has some role to play in the popularity of it. But yeah nice to see "Made in China first, for Chinese first" idea working out well for local investors/technologists.
> Or is it that the problem would be greatly reduced if everyone stopped eating meat. I expect this is true but it is not going to happen.

This is a classic Tragedy of the Commons. No single individual is incentivized to sacrifice for the good of the group as a whole.

But it's not correct to say that "it's not going to happen" - there are many counter-examples. The most notable is the ozone layer depletion problem that has been largely mitigated over the last 3 decades through concerted action among govts, NGOs and with public education. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion:

"The Montreal Protocol is considered the most successful international environmental agreement to date. ... The ozone hole was seen as a "hot issue" and imminent risk as lay people feared severe personal consequences such as skin cancer, cataracts, damage to plants, and reduction of plankton populations. ... Americans voluntarily switched away from aerosol sprays, resulting in a 50 percent sales loss even before legislation was enforced."

So yes, at some future point, if govts/NGOs do their part and the average human comes to believe they face imminent personal danger (which we already do but it's hidden), meat production may well become heavily regulated and large numbers of people may switch to vegetarianism.
Are you asking the protections for yourself or the protections for other people?

Because i never asked for the SEC to protect me. We can live in a world with both. You have coinbase with way more backing that bitfinex, and people still choose bitfinex. Let people choose, and if they mess up they mess up.
How long has boxing been fading? When did MMA begin?
> So everybody is going to go out and buy new phones and cameras?

Probably not. That sounds a little ridiculous. But probably so in the case of security cameras or bodycams or dashcams.

> but it creates a big mess in the legal system when we realize 3 years later that someone extracted the private key from a device, framed somebody,

Yeah, I covered that. Did you read my second sentence, or only the first one?

Evidence can already be faked. Eye-witness testimony has been faked for millenia. Photographic evidence started being faked shortly after the invention of the camera. What you do is, make sure the jury knows how hard it would be to fake, and let them make an informed decision.

Does that mean it's technically possible to frame someone? Yes! Just like it is today. Sucks to live in an imperfect world.

> and that person had been put in the electric chair between now and then

That's a valid argument against the death penalty. But that's a different subject entirely.
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The industry isn't built to support market based solutions which is why providers couldn't give you a price even if you asked. That's what parent poster is trying to say. There just isn't pricing transparency so you can't get pricing. Where it's been shown to work is with smaller doctors offices for routine procedures like a flu shot. If you ask for a price and offer cash, they can work with customers on that.
Inelastic demand, information asymmetry, and principal-agency make it difficult for markets to have much impact on healthcare costs, unfortunately.
>I think fostering that creativity without the distraction of television and devices is the key with ample praise for effort.

A thousand times, yes! It would be impossible for me to agree with you more. We are "Entertained to Death" (to steal a title of a book on this very subject). Children need time to sit and think. To be bored and learn that boredom is okay, and what to do about it.

These days, television is actively hostile in its level of interruption and intrusion. And I don't mean just the obnoxious advertisements; the deliberate "shaky" camera angles, the change of viewpoint every 3 seconds, the thumping soundtracks, whooshing graphics crossing the screen, all are designed to stimulate, attract, addict, yet hypnotize and sedate. Not to mention the low-value content for the most part. This is not good for anyone.

Fools are afraid of being alone with themselves. Was it always this way?

I think it plays a part in that many (dare I say most?) adults are simply horrified at the idea of sitting alone, quietly, without a device to distract them with internet/facebook or whatever. The skill/art of just sitting and occupying oneself in our own heads is being lost, but it is essential to happiness (and I think, sanity). This used to be learned by children, but now every kid is handed a dose of electronic crack, lest they fail to be distracted for a single precious moment. Then when it does happen they fall apart. I wonder if asked to choose, whether the average person would choose to skip a meal or go four hours without internet/phone.
Well. I created a gathering. The UI gives me no indication of who can see it; if it's public or private. The UI gives me no indication of how I can "invite" people to it so they can see it (if it's even private).

The UI could do with some work.
Thats kind of what you get when you put your company blog on a website not controlled by you. Everyone flocked to Medium because they didn't want to write a blog and are now getting screwed because of it.
> The opaqueness with which care is paid means that consumers receiving care have little incentive to shop around

And how would healthcare "consumers" be able to "shop around" while in an emergency situation?

This is the standard free market fantasy. It's all too common among healthcare startups, given that they are nearly all market-based solutions by nature and have a built-in incentive to ignore socialized medicine as a solution.

You'd think if we were really serious about improving our healthcare system we'd, you know, look at stuff that works and is field-tested, like for example the healthcare systems in basically all the other industrialized nations in the world.
>Define "how much something costs?" I can pull up the spec sheet from my insurance company and tell you the in network price and out of network price for just about anything.

Except if you go in for a major procedure, you don't know what you'll end up needing off that price list, and often, neither does your doctor. So even if providers were perfectly transparent about what a procedure would cost (and it's well-established they're not - just try calling and asking for prices) the nature of the service being purchased is that you sometimes don't know exactly what you're buying until it's too late to change providers.

A few years back I broke my leg and went to the hospital. Halfway through the process I was offered a couple of Vicodin, which I would later be billed $1,000 for. Was I supposed to haggle about them with that, or take my xray and hobble out down the street to someone who would sell me vicodin cheaper?
Ahem, but the trees you then see are usually very civilized ones. Cultivated and harvested like an ordinary field.

There are very few wild areas left. Usually only at far off areas or very steep terrain.

see also:

https://xkcd.com/1338/
I actually knew John quite well and helped write plenty of tutorials for how to use their ACP back in the day. Since Vipul (the admin of iPBFree) was basically M.I.A for 80% of the time I had been on iPBFree I had once thought of switching over to jcink. Even since not using the forum since 2008 I'm one of the Top 10 pages of posters on the support forum. :)
Fastest growing? Well, maybe. Depends on how you define it.

TIOBE says that C grew by +1.69% in 2017. Dart has a total of 1.426% (not growth, total). Dart may have grown more as a fraction of its earlier total, but C grew more total. So which is growing "faster"?
If you want to try that with a different modem in your browser, check out https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js
It's much more intuitive for non-programmers, which make up the majority of HTML/CSS users.
That's true, I hadn't considered taxes. I'd be very surprised to find out that NFL players are getting a W-2. Most likely they're all incorporated so they can claim all sorts of stuff as business expenses which would get their tax rate way below 50%. But you're right, it's probably more like $45-50k instead of $60k.

Still though, the median household income is in the $50ks. The 4% withdrawal rate means the base amount still grows with inflation, and so does your yearly withdrawal.

In other words, you can live a middle class life without ever working again. I would probably prefer to live a better lifestyle if that were an option. Sure, $1+ million isn't "fuck you" money, but it is "don't have to work ever again" money.
Maybe we can learn to cultivate tick and mosquito hungry birds.
LiDAR wavelengths are returned at various depths from within the forest canopy. In order to get a return on the ground you simply filter the returns down to the last value.

Sometimes however you want to keep the other returns and so you filter the values down to say 10% of all returns from a given depth, with a constraint between the depths of say 10cm so that you can see the density of the layers.
What is the obsession with smaller images? If you are running out of disk space before CPU, RAM, IOPS, network, well there is a cheap fix for that.
You're running these containers in an orchestrator, right? That should give you API access to the running container, allowing you to get shell. E.g. with kubernetes, `kubectl exec` will get you into the container.

But the sibling comment about using a Dockerfile to install/start sshd works if you're running these containers on a remote host without any kind of access to the running container.
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it's not just that the tobacco companies covered up reports, they literally put out ads with actors dressed as doctors saying "smoking is good for you".

e.g.: http://tobacco.stanford.edu/tobacco_main/images.php?token2=f...

Even if you were able to "reason" that smoking was bad, there was a whole dedicated culture jamming operation to push the message "you're wrong and foolish if you think smoking is bad" and it worked very well.

Every NFL team had (has?) a bunch of doctors telling players that they can shrug off concussions and other serious injuries, and a deeply-engrained (and specifically engineered) culture to back up that message.
Can you point to an example where any of these three things have happened in the real world?

"Still providing disaster coverage"... is pretty much all of what health insurance does for people over 65. The annual spend on preventative care is dwarfed by a single common incident (fall, flu, cancer) at that age.
Agreed, but multiplexed solid state LIDAR will up to a 99% use case for vision capture. What’s out there now solves maybe 80%.

Its a hard problem being solved by incremental improvements — first you gotta make LIDAR work in concept (which is basically done), then you have to shrink it, then commercialize it, then commoditize it. So it’ll take a decade or more to realize, but that’s the ultimate thing I think we need to get these things into the mainstream.
Firstly, people already know politicians lie. Nobody is going to care about your video in the first place.

Secondly, your analogy is wrong. The new hypothetical you present is equivalent to the old model where you are all giving verbal accounts and his staffers lied. If you are going to compare to an old-tech scenario where you one-up them with a more detailed recording than they have, you need to do the same with new technology to keep the comparison accurate.

Thirdly, why aren't you the liar?

Fourthly, you can always go one level up. Show the footage of them constructing doctored footage.
Please record these sessions and share them on Youtube. YC has done a great job with sharing its content!
My dad fought in WW2. He used to tell this story:

First, invaders would toss a grenade into a room, stunning all occupants, then promptly rush in and capture them at gun point.

Then people began creating a safety zone in the corner with sand bags. When the grenade hit the floor, you dive for cover. After it goes off, you stand up with your weapon, getting the upper hand on the soldiers entering the room.

Then they began tossing the grenade without pulling the pin. People dove for cover and waited for the grenade to go off. Meanwhile, you promptly enter and now you have the jump on them.

So then people would hear the grenade hit the floor and look to see if the pin had been pulled before deciding how to react.

When antibiotics were introduced, the world announced the end of disease. Now, we have antibiotic resistant super bugs.

Antibiotic resistance is an arms race. It is probably not one dimensional. If infectious process were one dimensional, then the initial prediction that antibiotics heralded the ended of disease should have been accurate.

But the only thing I am trying to suggest is that studies exist and people who are interested can look them up for themselves, read them and draw their own conclusions. I am sick to death of trying to discuss what I think about such things. It is never a positive experience.
Cryptocurrency botnets are rendering some companies unable to operate
The U.S. consumer loan industry is basically backed by the national government. Nobody was shut down or arrested. But it doesn't make it an appropriate action for the government to take.

Especially since in the U.S., major changes are supposed to go through strict democratic processes that require broad consensus. Beyond good democracy, that's just human decency.

That's why I think there should be a healthcare constitutional amendment before the U.S. government gets involved. If California wants single-payer, they should go for it though.
That's a very broad generalization without any evidence to back it up as being anything more than an assumption. Considering one of the top ways the vast majority of the population avoids taxes is by writing off charitable donations, I'd say the truth is opposite of what you purport.
If you want to try ultrasonic data transfer from your browser, check out https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js
Testosterone may protect men from autoimmune diseases
>...take out Rob Gronkowski.

Context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwALEoMUHrk.
Note quite what you're asking for, but a couple years ago Adobe demoed some voice/speech editing tech that's pretty impressive: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...
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I would love to be judged by my references earlier in the interview process, however this is not meritocratic.

In fact it's the opposite since it favors nepotism and disadvantages people from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. This is the same reason CA introduced the recent law prohibiting employers from asking about salary history.

But what is a "reference"? Often, it's a free-form phone call from the hiring manager to a person you've previously worked with. I think there's a lot of room to improve LinkedIn's "recommendations" feature--they clearly de-prioritized it, as well as endorsements.

In a nutshell, I want my social proof to precede me in my job search.

Why do fizz buzz when you can get several of your friends to confirm "this person can do fizz buzz, and also these things that you are expressly hiring for."
> the evidence of people in other states/countries is not good enough for them, so they have to [...]

Did you make that reasoning up? Guess we should only have one study for anything, because any successive studiers means the first one wasn't good enough for them.
I'm conflicted on this.

I really do like the idea of a challenger to the linux monoculture (among devs)/the windows monoculture (among consumers), but I really hate the idea of google getting yet more power.

If it was pretty much anyone else doing this.
Well, the difference is culpability. "Does football cause brain damage" is an important question for current and future players, but "did the NFL conceal this fact" can be interpreted as the NFL murdered its own players through criminal negligence. Players were not given the chance at informed consent. If I put poison in food and offer you millions to eat the food but don't tell you about the poison, what am I?
Folks using virtual machines and containers trying to minimize bloat.
It's related in that those phenomena can cause an economic crash and the the losses of bad investments affect families, dependents, and the long-term health of societies.
Absolutely disgusting, and illegal to boot. I think we're likely to see more stories like this, especially when the economic downturn hits. Hopefully we can get organized before then. Thanks for posting this.
Interestingly, I don't, yet the practices persist. I can't stop doing what I'm already not doing, and it seems like just not doing the thing isn't enough, some sort of interaction with those who do these things is required, be that animal farming practices or eating the resulting products.
Interestingly googling the title and the word "text" shows links to the full text. It's not a long read!