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I got started around the similar time, first with BASIC then with Z80 assembly language.

My earliest motivation wasn't to write games, it was to hack games instead, for infinite lives, etc!
You can also check out Fortune's Formula, which has a lot of information about Shannon, Kelly and Thorpe.

It's a horrible name for a book, but a great read.
One time at a hackathon a few friends and I tried to game roulette. We got decently far in around 18h.

We used a Myo, which you could wear on your forearm. Every time the ball went past a specific number (00, say), you would flex your arm. At most casinos you can make bets after the ball is “released”, so this was a viable strategy.

Surprisingly, we got it to be fairly accurate! I forgot exactly how accurate - but I think we were able to predict which quadrant the ball would land in - perhaps 60% of the time? If you memorized the order of numbers, I think you could do reasonably well.

We never tried it in Vegas, since we didn’t have much money, so the upside was limited. And like the article says - the downside was unlimited. So the EV was fairly negative for us.

Instead, we tested this on a bunch of roulette videos (from youtube). I think we also considered buying a used roulette wheel from Vegas, but they were very expensive ($10k+).

We didn’t pursue it any further - but I would love to see if somebody can try this again. With a Myo (or perhaps nowadays an Apple Watch), you can do input and output pretty discreetly.
It may very well depend upon the tool chain. The Solaris C compiler/linker can inline external functions (a previous developer at my company relied upon that behavior when writing code), but that's the only one I'm familiar with that behavior.
It's interesting how in most previous administrations, newspapers would simply say "The Whitehouse." After all, it's more than just Trump. Really it's all the lobbyist, advisers and special interest groups that really run the country.

Second, the China thing is just so stupid on so many levels. Exactly where are we going to get all the infrastructure to build a 5G network? It all gets manufactured in China. So whatever intentional and unintentional security holes are in that hardware, it's going to come over here anyway.
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Nope, you’re a venture backed startup!
Personally, I hate avocado in all its forms (guacamole, etc.). I don't understand what people see, err, taste in them.

My wife, OTOH, loves avocados (I had never tried avocado before she forced me to sample one while we were dating, which I ineptly pretended to sort of not hate), and if I forget to buy several when I do the shopping, I'll find myself trying to make up a story on the spot about how all the avocados at the grocery store were rotten, or they were out. And then she gives me that "I'm not buying it" look, sighs, rolls her eyes and stops speaking to me for a whole five minutes.

EDIT: Ok... Wow, you know this was an attempt at humor, so some of the details may have been embellished a bit. I'll just back away from this thread slowly.
nearly $2.00 a piece wholesale? I'm curious why the market hasn't been flooded by now.

*As pointed out below, it takes at least 5 years for an Avocado tree to produce fruit, which explains why there aren't quick adjustments.
I understand now. So it's, "can the information be known?" and the answer to that question, whether instrument or human or decision (such as marking the photon), is what creates the entanglement which causes the collapse.

P.S. Everyone - thanks! I get it now. And it's fascinating!
While the unemployment rate may have "improved" it doesn't track people "leaving the workforce " due to giving up or running out of benefits. It was a considered a somewhat jobless recovery actually. With regards to smartphones "correlation does not imply causation." Needless to say I only read the first few paragraphs before determining this wasn't a well reasoned article.
I feel they ruin the taste of sushi as well. I wanna taste the raw fish not the avocado.
Sorry, it's a moral panic.

When I read comments like "just one Vicodin and you're addicted for life!", "nobody should take opioids" and "opioids are destroying our country" it's moral panic.

As for the number of overdose deaths, take a look at other countries that never saw the massive overprescribing of opioids like Canada. The deaths are due to synthetic opioids mostly coming from China.
This is a common approach by groups who perpetuate hate speech- to exclaim with faux outrage that any limits on hate speech are tantamount to the dissolution of free speech at the behest of ostensibly powerful minority groups. I won't go so far as to accuse you of being a member of hate groups, but your response certainly echoes the propaganda that they spread, especially in forums like HN.

The fact is that society has always drawn lines about what speech and behavior is and isn't acceptable in different venues and circumstances. Facebook's choice to censor hate speech is no different from a bar, restaurant, or department store asking someone to leave for shouting the N-word at fellow shoppers. It's a private non-governmental entity making a choice about how they want their users to act on their platform.

Furthermore, free speech claims in favor of hate speech ignore the real material costs in human lives that facilitating hate speech incurs. While I greatly value free speech personally, I also greatly value human lives and the ability of all people to meaningfully participate in society without facing systemic oppression, violence, and hatred.

Tolerance must inevitably come face-to-face with intolerance, and if we don't act to stop the worst kinds of hatred and intolerance they fester and decay the ideals that allow tolerance to flourish at all.
Raising prices for a chain like Chiptole is non-trivial. Think about all those menu boards listing the price of adding guacamole, every one of those has to be reprinted, distributed and posted. IT systems updated, etc.

Not saying they don't do stuff like that all the time, there's just more of a lag between a commodity price rising and a chains ability to raise the price of the end product.

These kinds of decisions are made over fairly long time frames. Someone will be studying the likely effect of each possible price, others are forecasting how long avocado prices might stay high. Lots of disagreements, oh Jim thinks it will stay this high for a year, Mary says another month. Those things have to get worked out before even the decision will be made.

It just takes time and it would have to hurt first (sounds like that day is here), but they will eventually raise the price.
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This is a strange way to be mean to your wife? I don't get it. EDIT: sorry! Somehow missed the "forget" part of the sentence.

I don't eat fruit, I don't like the taste. When I see dried mangoes, I buy them for my girlfriend because she loves them.
What's the lead time on making an avocado tree? Not as bad as making more programmers I'm sure, but it's not fast either.
June 2017.

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP754?locale=en_US
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489.full

Kahneman would disagree. Correlation is only weak for those above the median income. Furthermore, a lower than median income appears to amplify other negative factors (illness, stress, etc.)

Note that the study data is 10 years old. It would be interesting to know what today’s kids today believe is the median.
The standard story about measurement/observation and quantum collapse is not the only interpretation of the available data.

There are, broadly, three kinds of interpretations of what's 'really' going on behind the scenes:

1. Collapse - The world exists in an indeterminate state until observation occurs, when the world collapses into one a single determinate state. The probabilities of quantum mechanics map onto the the different parts of the unobserved indeterminate state.

2. Many Worlds - Quantum phenomena cause the world the branch into multiple worlds. The probabilities of quantum mechanics represent the 'share' of reality that branches in each direction.

3. Hidden variables - The probabilities of quantum mechanics are artifacts of our inability to know all the relevant variables. Measurement necessarily involves causal contact, and causal contact will always disturb some of the relevant variables in unpredictable ways. It would be cool if we could observe what goes on when measurement occurs, but to do that would require measurement! So we're stuck with hidden variables.

The public tends to hear the collapse interpretation most often. Physicists tend to like the many worlds interpretations. Philosophers of science tend to like the hidden variables interpretation, because the other options require an incoherent metaphysics. (I'm a Philosophy PhD student.)

People say that the hidden variables interpretation is ruled out on experimental grounds, but this is demonstrably false. Experimental data shows that hidden variables, if they exist, violate locality:

Locality - Causal interaction is a local phenomena. No action at a distance.

So long as you're willing to abandon locality, hidden variables can work. Given that the other two interpretations posit equally weird things, abandoning locality won't seem so weird.

For more on this, see Tim Maudlin's excellent paper, "Three Measurement Problems"

https://www.academia.edu/32885328/Three_measurement_problems
He forgot to buy them. He's not being mean, he's being human.
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> Mandatory is to be insured.

While I will admit there are varying interpretation, for me, living in the USA, if I am mandated to pay for something, it's a tax.

I take it that as a German, working in Germany, I could not "opt out" of all of this and just take my chances?
But, putting a phone in a bag does not modify the phone.
No malice is intended when I forget the avocados. I just forget them. And then I feel bad.
Probably a reason they are adding other high margin products like queso to offset shrinking margins on avocado. Guacamole is always expensive but worth it.

Though simplicity and just doing the same thing well is really what Chipotle is or was, much like In-N-Out doesn't need gimmicks, just the same good food consistently with well paid employees so it is quality. Hopefully Chipotle doesn't add too many things.
Actually, in the US, hate speech is not illegal and the hypothetical posters you mention would be protected speech. “Should be shot” is protected, “should be shot at 11am today at the soccer field on Hicks Road” would not be protected. There’s the concept of “true threat.”

Here is an interesting article related to this: https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/report/true-threat...

There is a mistaken assumption that hate speech is illegal. In the US, it isn’t illegal. Speech that contains a specific threat of violence would be illegal — but such threats have to be specific.

There is a song by the band Type O Negative called “Kill all the white people” and the first line of the song is “kill all the white people and then we’ll be free.”

That song is hate speech and promotes violence against white people — but it isn’t illegal.

Even speech promoting overthrowing the government is also protected as is speech calling for killing police or raping people.

Disgusting stuff sure — but not illegal speech.
The post I replied to is claiming that they lose money on each sale of guacamole. (This is clear from bringing up the possibility of raising prices of the optional add on guacamole.) However, this is clearly much stronger claim than merely that Chipotle is doing worse financially than if their avocados cost less.
Avocado is a great substitute for mayo for losing weight, and in my opinion, better tasting as well.
Qdoba, Chipotle's competitor, actually offers guac for free - which is super interesting to me!
Still blows my mind that it took Uber so long to migrate away from a single db solution. The bit about wanting an event system to handle downstream trip processing w/o having one failure block the whole job was shocking.

I'm pretty sure they've seen a few iterations on their data stores. I remember attending a meetup at Urban Airship in 2012 or so where Uber engineers gave a presentation about a data store migration (I think from Mongo to MySQL)
Forgetting to buy them, yes, that's human.

Trying to cover up instead of just saying "Sorry, honey, I forgot", that's at least tending toward mean.
Ah the SJW playbook again. #ClotildaGate.
This is the bit that you are missing:

>>Some restaurants were forced to add a surcharge on guacamole, or temporarily to scrap it from their menus altogether. Others swallowed the bill.

They could raise prices but they have chosen not to so far. They may have to in the future. That explains why their financials were not great.
Gotta say I think theres a big difference between cassetes and the level of intensity some kids use facebook and the like.
Depends on what precisely you mean by that. It can allow you to exhibit correlations that are hard to explain within a classical framework, yes. But that requires very precise control over the system, so has no practical import most of the time. Things are being entangled pretty much nonstop around you all the time.

BTW, I added a paragraph to my answer above.
Cooking is not rocket science, but can you cook like a world-class chef? I don’t know about you, but I can’t. There’s science in cooking. Professional work is rocket science hard.
>I don't eat fruit, I don't like the taste.

you can't be serious. you don't like any kind of fruit?
Oh, so you’re that guy in IT procurement.
In fairness my wisdom teeth removal wasn’t exactly textbook. I had to go to an oral surgeon and he had to dig into the lower jawbone to remove one of them, breaking it into pieces to get it off the nerve. I had a lot of damage to the gums and quite a few bone fragments migrated out over the next few weeks.

I was however even offered opioids for a root canal once (different dentist). I didn’t fill that prescription.
> Cryptocribs doesn't need to take over the entire market for it to be a worthwhile endeavour for its creator or users.

I agree it doesn't. But if they want to build a sustainable business, they'll need a critical mass. Maybe it's possible to achieve that mass with this model

> When you pay using a debit card in person, why don't you withdraw cash from an ATM and then pay with cash?

That's not a good analogy. If I need to buy a product and they don't accept debit cards, that's precisely what I do.

Consider this hypothetical scenario. A person has BTC and dollars. She needs to book an apartment for her holiday in Barcelona. If the better (regarding quality, price, trust, availability, location, etc.) is on Airbnb, do you think she would book an inferior offer just because she can pay with BTC?

Just to be clear: I'm not trying to bash Cryptocribs. I think it's fantastic that people are creating new stuff and challenging incumbents. I am not a crypto expert, but I do have some experience in building startups. I am just trying to pose challenging questions and get a discussion going. Because, who am I to know if this model or that model will work out in the future. All we can do is try to ask the right questions :-)
Proponents of guns as “defense” are always so sure that, if only they had a weapon, they’d take care of a shooter. The fundamental problem with this is that it is likely to do a lot more damage from added chaos.

You probably will not be in a focused frame of mind in a crisis, and you probably will not have the best aim (despite your normal skill). And, if you’re obviously armed, there is a better chance that you’ll look like the perpetrator to any bystander or police trying to make sense of the situation. This will divide resources as people try to figure out exactly who it is they’re trying to take down.

And guess what, if your dream comes true and you’re allowed to be an armed civilian, then you probably won’t be the only armed bystander in the next crisis. If there are 3 or more people all pulling out weapons and all looking like The Shooter, what then; will these people become confused and try to shoot each other? And when they miss, will there be even more casualties? And will the police actually figure out who the real shooter is, or just shoot all the armed people to make sure they have control of the situation?

There are so many problems kids have that could be addressed before we make society even more militaristic. Poverty? Racism? Bullying? Domestic abuse? Poor investment in education, making schools worse places than they ought to be?
> Physicists tend to like the many worlds interpretations.

According to Sean Carroll, this is because if you 'buy' the mathematics of the wavefunction, even before collapse you already have to accept "many worlds" at the quantum level. "many worlds" for them simply means superposition/linear combinations. After all, if you already accept "superposition" at the level of quantum states, you don't have to invoke anything new to deal with so-called "collapse", if everything simply stays as superpositions i.e. linear combinations.

Or, in other words, if you assume classical behavior first, and you need to get that out of superpositions at the quantum level, you need wavefunction collapse.

but if you start with superpositions at the quantum level, you already have superpositions, and then classical behavior can simply be derived from locating yourself in one of those superpositions.

Explained this way, "many worlds" doesn't seem so shocking, if you have already resigned yourself to quantum level superpositions.

I think of many worlds as kind of a literal interpretation that quantum superpositions are fundamentally real, as opposed to quantum superpositions merely being a very accurate mathematical model. (Most scientists think QM represents something real instead of some lucky equations.)
I am fearful of switching because of all the keyboard shortcuts I'd have to relearn. Sometimes an established layout like Dvorak and Colemak has scripts/modifications readily available from the community that can help you to get things working quickly, for e.g. Emacs and Vim rebindings.

How are you finding the keyboard shortcuts after your transition?

Is there any community around QFMLWY (forums/mailing list)?
Based on casual observation of what other customers are ordering from my frequent visits to Chipotle, it seems like queso has been a complete failure. I don't understand why they thought cheese would be something people would pay extra for.

A) Cheese is not usually expensive, like avocado, and so not usually considered worth paying extra for

2) Cheese is known not to be healthy, and part of the appeal of Chipotle is the illusion that you're eating healthy food

3) A different kind of cheese is already available for free, so that substitute good is bound to drive down demand for queso

I did notice that they recently cut corn tortillas and one (or two?) of the meat options, so they at least seem to be cognizant of the benefits of reducing decision fatigue by concentrating on their best-selling options
Would you mind either arguing for the superiority of that interpretation or showing flaws with the alternative I pointed out? I know that what you've stated is nearly cannon at the moment, but the issue isn't actually settled, which is why a discussion of it here is still potentially interesting, and why merely re-asserting the supposed truth of the most common interpretation isn't.

Edit: in other words, when you say:

> The mistake in this line of thinking is in the tacit assumption that a quantum system possesses a certain property prior to or independent from a measurement. It does not.

You are only asserting that's the case, not defending it. The rest of your post operates on the opposite, undefended assumption that a quantum system does not possess a certain property prior to or independent from a measurement.
The Axios post has more detail.

https://www.axios.com/trump-team-debates-nationalizing-5g-ne...

But unanswered questions:

America needs a centralized nationwide 5G network within three years.

Why?

a single centralized network is what's required to protect America against China and other bad actors.

Why? How?

Is the concern that the 5G network hardware is all made in China?

EDIT: OK yes that seems to be the concern. From the Axios post: U.S. has to build superfast 5G wireless technology quickly because “China has achieved a dominant position in the manufacture and operation of network infrastructure,” and “China is the dominant malicious actor in the Information Domain.”
This person habitually attempts to deceive their wife, and from their own account describes her feeling antagonized. I don't think they are "forgetting avocados" so much as they are bullying their partner with plausibly deniable emotional abuse.
But note that in this study the beta wave activity turned on and off in task-sensitive ways. It may not be useful to have some stimulus that increases or decreases beta wave amplitude in ways that are not sensitive to exactly what your brain needs at that very moment.

I mean, imagine you were investigating a CPU and found a pin that went high when the CPU wanted to write to memory. You wouldn't think "yeah, remembering shit is awesome, let's connect this to Vcc". No, that pin is only supposed to go high at specific times depending on exactly what the CPU is doing.
Went to a couple casinos in Louisiana and they did not allow smart watches to be worn at the table, if they found out they'd request it be taken off or you're removed from the table.
> The post I replied to is claiming that they lose money on each sale of guacamole. (This is clear from bringing up the possibility of raising prices of the optional add on guacamole.)

That's not what they're claiming, they're saying that if ingredient prices rise (e.g. for avocados) Chipotle can raise menu costs to protect margins. Nowhere is it implied that guacamole was being sold below-cost.
Thanks, Ron. I can imagine that measurement and entanglement are the same thing, especially that both, like the uncertainty principle, are about the limits of extractible information.

The video link is the same as the paper; if you find it, please post it. Thanks again.
It's even more systemic than that - vicariously living through streamers opening lootboxes is a favorite for many gamers. Even just some kid who sets up their own Twitch stream can get an uptick in views if they persistently open lootboxes on stream. The thrill of the gambling carries over well for some reason so much that it's often enough to satisfy the viewers' own little internal gamblers.
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> The Conpenhagen interpretation is flat out wrong by any reasonable philosophy of science.

AFAIK, this is an exaggeration to the point of incorrectness.

The Copenhagen interpretation may be a poor interpretation which introduces absurd complicated ideas rather than the simpler ideas of other interpretations, but that doesn't make it "flat out wrong".
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Interesting! I think that’s why we used the Myo - if you wear it under a jacket, you can input (flex your forearm), and receive output (vibrations), while still staying totally discreet.
“...information makes kids more nihilistic. And nihilism isn't a bad thing. The universe is absurd, we have no meaning...”

Lotta leaps in such a short span of text.
Lots and lots of math. I dont believe the program to black box ofuscator/encryptor has come to fruition yet. But lattice methods were teasing it out. We do have homomorphic encryption that allows for basic operations like addition and multiplication on the ciphertext. But not turing complete black boxed behavior. Thats a twinkle to aim for.
They should have used containers.
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how does the mallforafrica.com intercepts the shopping cart checkout process/request of all these shopping sites

https://www.mallforafrica.com/shopping-sites