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I think you should have leaned on that point harder and more explicitly for the readers that were not already k8 users. :)
The Platform of the party is worth less than used toilet paper. It literally is meaningless as an example of what the party actually stands for.
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Basically this, although I wouldn't say "it can never work in practice", just that "a boxes-and-arrows UI doesn't actually make CV (or anything else hard) significantly easier".

It's great to start out with and play around with but eventually you're going to want the GUI to get out of your way and just let you edit the code directly. At which point something like shadertoy is (IMO) the best of both worlds.
>As someone works on MT project, this quality is pretty amazing. I won't necessarily say it is shallow, TBH.

Kind of exactly what this article is saying. To the people who work on this stuff, it's fascinatingly accurate and servicable, but to regular people it's a very poor substitute for actual bilingual understanding.
Check out the left edge of your iPhone X. Look at the ugly cutout for the mute toggle, right above the plastic buttons they added to pad out the phone's volume buttons so that they're actually usable in a case. If "in case" was the design spec for the iPhone, I think Apple could do better here.
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You need to adjust those figures for inflation, for starters. And compare to the total performance of an index over the same time range, e.g. the S&P 500 with dividends reinvested.
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so the illustrations of the subject that we can't stand to look at must be specifically made to initially appear as something else in order to capture our attention, that explains the diversity. the 'boring style' is just the design equivalent of WWGD, What Would Google Do...
I'm a software engineer turned VC. I'm very interested in bio startups but am not sure where/how to start, and don't want to be one of those investors that doesn't have a clue and backs all the wrong companies. If you're willing to share your thoughts on what kind of companies investors should be backing, I'd love to chat. My email is leo at susaventures.com.
32 teeth, one bit per tooth, that gives us 4 ASCII characters to work with.
> taking a stance that contradicts a past stance is not in the same category as someone saying something that contradicts an observable/measurable quantity

I mean that may be true in some sort of epistemological sense, but pragmatically both are equally ridiculous. The fact that something could be true doesn't make it any less false.
> too white

Really? How is this comment okay here?
Wouldn't be the first time that Bitcoin has shot up 10x and then lost half its value in rapid succession.
In 2014 Portland was the whitest city with over 400k population https://priceonomics.com/how-diverse-is-your-city/
It’s not odd to me that some people are questioning education in a world where it’s ever more popular to question any form of formal authority. It’s a dangerous path though.

Sure you can learn a lot of things in your own, but the success rate is just so much higher if you learn from a curated source, especially if you haven’t yet learned how to use scientific paradigms.

I’ve hired a lot of people for programming jobs, the vast majority of these have had a formal technical education, and they blow every autodidact person out of the way. Not because they are necessarily better programmers in x language, but because it’s so much easier to get them to understand the scientific methods that keep our software running flawlessly in a huge corporation where people come and go and IT is still just an extension of business.

The price of American college is troubling, but not so much because it’s not worth he investment. It’s troubling because it kills the social movement in society. When poor people can’t afford to get educated that’s when your society loses out on huge potential.

It’s not surprising as I said. We do live in a world where thousands of people get their information from YouTube videos made by people who may sound convincing but are in truth equally unknowing.
Paige and Brin have enough voting power to pretty much make any major decision.
According to [1], Stanford received 1.8 million shares of Google stock (I'd imagine for PageRank and other rights), and they sold it over time for $336 million.

[1] http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/318480/stanford_earns...
>“Equity” in this context does not mean “equality” or “fairness.” It means racial identity politics—an ideology that blames minority students’ academic challenges on institutional racial bias, repudiates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s color-blind ideal, and focuses on uprooting “white privilege.”

What do these people think MLK Jr was protesting about and being jailed for if not institutional racial bias and the disproportionate effect it has had for centuries on minority students and the incomes and wealth generation of black communities?
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With the disclaimer that I know zero about bio (or seed investing, for that matter), I imagine it is like any other field: talk to people doing it.

If you live near an area where it is hot, I'm sure there are meetup-ish things or other social mixers of some sort. Otherwise/also, find the online communities where those folks hang out.

Heck, I've cold-called folks a few times when I had clueless questions about their industry. Once someone thought I was a freak, or maybe a scammer, but most times being direct, respectful and not too dumb led to folks humoring me. Now, I'm not suggesting ringing up a random CEO and asking them for an extemporaneous survey of emerging market opportunities, but, especially with startups, generally folks like to talk shop.
I did 99+% of my holiday shopping on Amazon. I bought only a few items not from there.
Ebay presumably doesn't have this problem though... they are large enough to be trusted on their own...
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I've been trying to figure out how Bitfinex and Tethers manipulate BTC.

One way it can go south is if Bitfinex is using the money it gets from Tethers to buy BTC. Effectively not converting the money to paper, but holding onto BTC. In other words, Tether may be backed by BTC.

So a run on Tether might affect the price of BTC negatively as Bitfinex would have to sell BTC to dollars to pay for the Tethers people are trying to sell back.

But that's only a theory.
It has been this way for a while. Retail makes a majority of the revenue, which aws generates a majority of the profits. However for the Q I think the retail did beat AWS, but it had way more revenue. However margins on AWS are much better.
Sorry that you had to click on dodgy sites to figure this out. Another way to do it is to open a terminal and type

$ python
> 'eW91ciB0ZXh0'.decode('base64')

PS: you’ll need to import base64 with python3
Whenever you hear about amazing breakthroughs in medicine, look to see if it is an animal study. Those usually do not translate into results in humans.

Do not get your hopes up just yet.
Right, that's why Google is still paying Stanford for the license, and gave the university shares that were worth $360M in 2005 already? [0]

"In 2012, Google paid Stanford $80,000 for the license, a sharp decline from the $400,000 paid in 201a and only 1/10 of what Google paid in 2010. Since Google began disclosing these payments, the company has paid Stanford around $3 million in licensing fees. Of course, that’s in addition to the $1.8 million shares that Google issued to Stanford, and which the school sold for $336 million in 2005.Google made up some of the difference by donating $3.4 million to Stanford for scholarships and what the proxy describes as “other philanthropic endeavors”, compared with $3 million in 2011."

[0] https://www.footnoted.com/new-details-in-googles-proxy-on-st...
It would do them some good to be be more homeless epidemic conscious. Any political gesture Portland could collectively be proud of is undermined by it’s failure to show concern for the members of it’s own society.
I think you're on to something here. An image on the NYT website has a viewership that decays exponentially over a couple of days. And NYT gets to cycle through dozens of articles every day. So, images are designed to hook a user's attention, and even if happens to be annoying, nobody looks at it after a day or two.

On the other hand, an app's interface is something the users look at for a much more extended period.

To compare with newspapers, think about the web interface of different newspapers (or even the layout of most print newspapers) -- you'll be amazed at how similar they are! I just looked at: https://www.nytimes.com/ , https://www.washingtonpost.com/ , https://www.bostonglobe.com/

So, while I would like more variety in interfaces, I think it's a very hard problem.
It's been clinically proven over 14 years now. Papers published in top journals. A very comprehensive set of cases on the website, with before/after photos and X-rays (nothing like this exists for any other implant company!).

The founders are medical doctors, one a maxillofacial surgeon, the other a famous heart surgeon, both associated with the Medical University of Vienna.

Lastly - you'll have to take this on trust - I have a BioImplant. It's a front incisor (one of the worst places to get an implant). That video on the website front page - that's me! I've had it for about 5 years, and it's faultless.
>Does an entity that is behaviorally indistinguishable from a person have any rights a real person is bound to respect?

Any entity that is behaviorally indistinguishable from a person is a person. That's what "is" means. Scientists figured this out. Programmers figured this out. Mathematicians figured this out. Philosophers? They don't want to figure things out. They want to drop names.

In the end, these are mostly solved problems, and if it weren't for people continuing to worship their own ignorance -- sorry -- "the mystery", then we'd be able to move past these and find some useful philosophy to talk about, rather than spinning up 1300 year old problems again and again.
India doesn't get it. Defending the world from terrorism is 1000x more important then basic health insurance. How can health insurance defend the people against suicide bombers? The only thing that can defend people from suicide bombers is the 1.5 Trillion dollar F-35, the greatest war plane ever made.
Could you unpack this a bit for the relative layperson? I once heard a guy at a Haskell meetup say that “codata is the categorical dual of data” but I didn’t know what that means then and I still don’t know.
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If they hadn't sold it in 2005, it would be worth $3.6B now (10x in 12 years), more than 10% of Stanford's total endowment.
This is exactly what you would expect to see in a city where demand is largely driven by people living and working in the area, but in some large international cities (Vancouver, London I'm looking at you!) Speculation/Investment from non-residents makes up a such a significant part of demand and the highest margin part of that demand, that there is a risk of new builds becoming "empty nest eggs". [1]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-non...
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And if I want to use the styles on table 1, but not on table 2?

Moreover, that will only work when you are compiling sass, if you are using bulma for quick prototyping, you will use dist files.
Man, the law group representing that guy is a real shame for Indian people everywhere :(

Their twitter retweets Donald Trump of all people, like the same guy who openly supports white supremacists and wishes you were never allowed to enter this country...you're really going to retweet him...yuck...
I hope he does well.
He invented a plan for how to build a cotton gin, and that's all anybody needed of him. That was the invention. The rest is just manufacturing.
Problem is, Tether doesn't actually buy back USDT from anybody. Nobody has successfully converted their USDT to USD through Tether...only via USDT -> USD market on Kraken, or more commonly USDT -> BTC -> USD.

In other words, it's like a bank you can only put money into, but not take money out of, and you can only redeem your money by finding some poor sucker who'll trade your USD vouchers for some other currency that's actually worth something.

Unless you're just talking about maintaining the peg by buying large amounts when the price falls below $1. In that case, yes they'd have to sell BTC to maintain the peg because it's conjectured that they back USDT with BTC (not USD), and even with the BTC they have, at its market value it wouldn't actually back the amount of Tethers they've printed.
It's not wrong, but think of it this way: if you short a stock, your downside exposure is unlimited because the price can go arbitrarily high, but your upside is finite because the stock can only go to zero. In the same way, you can only decrease your spending so much, even to zero, but you can increase your income by an unlimited amount.
How does Amazon structure purchasing between their units? Does the Amazon retail system use pay for AWS at market rate? If so, how much of AWS is runninb Amazon's own systems?
This. Entirely.

I used to work for a small ecommerce webdev shop. I’ve worked on sooo many shitty insecure shopping carts over the years I simply know not to trust basically any small website asking for my card. Completely unencrypted, storing CVVs, sending CC details as GET parameters, I’ve seen it all. It’s painfully common!

If a company is not a huge name, and is handling your credit card info themselves, they are mishandling your credit card information in one way or another. I guarantee it.

Having been through PCI compliance, it’s no joke. It’s really not worth doing yourself in my strong opinion.
It was reported that Standford made more than $300M off their shares and they get yearly royalties. I think they did ok on that deal.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/12/21/stanfords-ideas-gener...
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Just spent a month looking for a studio or one bedroom below $1200. Plenty of ok options and a couple better than ok. All apartments came with the threat of a scary property management company. Finally we found an artsy owner with an attic and After waiting two weeks for our background check to pass for a studio we were approved but had already signed a lease for he attic. Pretty stressful process. Mostly because the paranoia of dealing with shady property managers. If I was a Stanford MBA I'd start a nation wide property management firm that focus on ethics and does shit right. Housing fellow hard working citezens should be an honor and done with good morals. And to think how much harder it is for somebody just even a little bit worse off than me...
Ask me about what I've accomplished in the past, and have a technical conversation with me about the subject matter that's directly relevant to the role right now.
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I had to Google this and had no idea something like this existed. It's quite interesting but I think it's a fair bit more industrial than what I'd ever need. I've never even pushed an Arduino etc to its limits. I appreciate you showing me something new though!
His CV page [1] is clean and quite up-to-date. Not sure if he handles the edit himself or not, but I find the page's design clean compared to a lot of the professors' out there.
I just think it's interesting to mention here.

[1]: https://web.stanford.edu/~hennessy/cv.html
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... just to make sure I'm understanding the conversation right, you're saying that not having the same political views over a 20-year period and lying about objective reality are equally ridiculous?
This is very awesome... I was looking for something to decode SAME codes a while back.
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>Just because you think something is going to go up 10x in the next year doesn't mean it's a good idea to hold onto it.

Could you please explain this to me
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Something that would be worth considering in homelessness discussion re: Portland, SF, etc is how many of these people are city dwellers that became homeless versus already-homeless people who gravitated toward (or were shipped to) the city? The former is a reflection on the city, but in my opinion the latter is less a reflection on the city than it is of the nation.

If I become homeless and move out to Portland, is that an indictment of Portland? Is it more their responsibility to house me than say, Pittsburg, who may have sent the people there on a bus? I don't know the stats mentioned above but it seems like the places that have huge homeless problems are mostly those with nice mild weather and tolerant residents.

While I lean left and support affordable housing and the welfare state, it seems a little unfair to saddle those places particularly with housing a homeless population that they didn't cause to be homeless.
That is very thoughtful of you, thank you. Everyone responding has been much kinder and warmer than I ever expected.
Property management companies in the San Diego area are absolutely shit-awful and I've thought about starting a nation-wide property management company myself. There's just no way I could be any worse than what's out there.
Or you could just not build the whole damn thing out of glass. Steel or carbon fiber can be light and thin, without the propensity to shatter into smithereens.
In that case they should have a look at the actual products they stock. Here in Canada the prices are infuriating unless it's the actual 1st party Amazon selling the product.
There's a massive difference in crypto over fiat. In the US, if you have a debt they can take back your home, you can get harassed and taken to court.

The stakes are not that high for crypto wealth. Its unenforceability makes the stakes a lot lower for tragedy.
Out of curiosity, what makes you call those property managers scary, vs others you have encountered?
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Nobody worth their salt cares about click-through rates. As long as people get positive return on ad spend, they'll buy advertising. It just works. When people stop making money using advertising, they'll stop using it.
>but that's hardly a sign of identity politics or anything.

It's a sign that they can't make simple distinctions which in itself is sophomoric.

>Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations:"

More than a few people are pointing out that Coates is less a part of the solution and more part of the problem. Here's just one: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/ta-nehisi-coates-...
Strange that since eBay probably owns a lot of PayPal stock that they would try to tank Paypal. Maybe eBay sold their Paypal stock holdings ahead of this change.
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I think this is giving the NTSB too little credit. Remember, the people who work at the NTSB deal with statistics all day, and for the most part genuinely care about reducing traffic deaths. So I think that, for their part, it'll look more like the way they've handled investigations into crashes with current partial automation (ie Tesla's autopilot): with a lot of emphasis on the overall effect of the system on accident rates, rather than on one specific crash.
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The problem with therapy for me has been finding one that is helpful. They all mean well but I think my answer lies more with someone who's experienced similar hardships than it does with someone who's a spectator.

I also don't have health insurance because it's ridiculously expensive and I'm quite healthy and always have been and accept the financial risks of not having it. That said, getting medicated right now is probably prohibitively expensive without insurance.

I appreciate your perspective on me maybe not being recovered. It's not something I considered, and I'm historically a very poor judge of my own mental well-being. I will spend time considering this.

Truly, thank you so much for the response
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I've wondered the same thing: would a site like FC survive these days?
I'm not a particular optimist about AI, but I think your cynical take doesn't account enough for the potential changes in mindset and policy that could occur by the time an autonomous car can take full blame for a big disaster.

First of all, that incident will likely have been preceded by years of semi-autonmous driving becoming more and more mainstream, which means there will be more incidents similar to the Tesla autopilot fatality a couple years ago. And as we've seen, Tesla was unpunished in the NTSB's report, and self-driving investment continued unabated, so there's reason to believe that future fatalities won't cause major outrage because the public will have found ways to rationalize it.

Five to 10 years of mainstream semi-autonomous driving may be enough to do 2 things:

- Strongly reduce the demand for people to learn how to drive themselves, or want to drive at all (especially among the senior-age population). Keep in mind that trustworthy semi/mostly-autonomous driving will likely make Uber/Lyft even more day-to-day afforadable.

- Strongly increase people's comfort with AI and robotics. Sure, AI already has huge impact and influence on society. But not in the day-to-day tangibility that comes with confidently trusting your daily drive to AI. Society's appreciation (and/or complacency) toward AI will likely be at a much higher level by the time fully-auto cars become mainstream.

So when that AI-instigated-driving-disaster finally happens, you have a status quo that's generally favorable toward AI, including the passage of laws that make road conditions more favorable toward AI, both in reducing operational hazards and in mitigating legal culpability. Finally, you have a society far more dependent on self-driving cars -- you really think the millions of people who are 90 to 100% dependent on AI-personal-transportation are going to give up their livelihoods (nevermind their investments in the actual hardware) because of one big wreck?

I'm too cynical to think that society will become more intellectual and rational about things. But I believe that when fully-auto cars are approved, there will be too much acceptance/complacancy for outrage to cause the industry to roll back.

I agree that there will be lot of butt-covering between all the stakeholders when this fatal accident happens -- but I argue that there will be plenty of butt-covering well before this kind of situation.
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The genius here is also that Bezos doesn’t care. As soon as someone makes a cloud offering below what he can provide his retail margins increase.

It’s a race to the bottom and Amazon wins even at the bottom.