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Given his level of success, even if his talents are considerable, he must've also been extremely lucky and thus even starting a day later or earlier would've probably crushed his entire life trajectory.
That is one thing I dislike about sites that show no loading bar. On a slow connection it's impossible to tell if the page is still loading or already failed.

It's also one of the irritating things about "Material Design" websites, where responses to clicks are artificially delayed before speeding out with unnatural acceleration. "Nothing is happening. JUST KIDDING!" I'm not sure if that is to mask the slowness of mobile devices or if it's the cause of them. It's the animation spam[1] of the current generation of UIs.

* [1] "Let's make our website sparkle. It will be 'delightful'." http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex3/snow.htm
The title doesn't match the article's content: the content primarily notes that Facebook's own messaging apps Messenger, WhatsApp, and seemingly, in the article's interpretation, Instagram-as-a-messaging app are siphoning screen-time away from Facebook itself, but Instagram is the least likely to present an a true threat.

After all, Instagram lends itself well to high-margin brand advertising, interest-based advertising, and hyperlocal content. It's hardly a problem that certain demographics spend less time on Facebook and go on Instagram instead, especially if these demographics are quite valuable on their own.

Even the article admits that the more traditional messaging networks like Messenger and WhatsApp are harder to monetize. They have had some experiments the past [1] but with so many competitors, user resistance is a risk.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13489098#13489554
Great, they’ve ruined vegetarianism.
In my humble experience the impact of this issue is multiplied on mobile; given the mobile context the user expectation is in amplified and the need for clear communication made more relevant. A simple “spinning wheel of death” is often not enough. However, I’m not bought in on the term ”benevolent deception”. Where I’m from we differentiate this by differentiating being honest with being earnest. “The importance of being earnest” (forgive the pun) is that the earnest person has your objectives/priority in mind regarding the outcome for the recipient. An honest persons is an indifferent to the outcome or result. The earnest person is looking out for you.
https://macropolo.org/chinese-real-estate-money-transforming... there's a lot of foreign investment and money parking happening in the Bay Area as well.
I just return from a trip to China and yes I carried a 10yrs China visa to open a bank with Bank of Construction in Guangdong province. No, the bank's front desk refuse it and said they cannot accept foreign passports.

Having a "work" visa is possible though.

Please stop spreading rumours about China when it's not true.
Sure, I'll complain that way at a restaurant, if:

- The restaurant is a near-monopoly at which I have to either eat at or go hungry.

- The reason I "don't like my meal", as you say, is because it was served to me multiple days late, during which time I was unable to leave and re-enter the restaurant without having to pay again (and this restaurant charges a premium).

- When I pay for food at the restaurant, I often receive an empty plate instead. The restaurant refers to this as my "not liking my meal", and chalks it up to personal preference unless I raise a stink.

- The restaurant is somewhere I am forced to eat by my employer, and my employer will not refund me when they fail to provide food.

- The restaurant has a reputation for being mismanaged and implementing policies that torment patrons--sometimes by physically beating them.

- The restaurant has slowly but surely increased prices while visibly decreasing portion sizes.

And so on. For a lot of people "just don't fly" doesn't work (people with overseas family or travel for work). And for those same people, mega-airlines like United are often the only feasible choice or one of a very few equivalently-shitty choices.

Also, complaining by email decreases (doesn't eliminate, but decreases) the annoyance caused by antagonizing an in-person employee of the airline with your grievances. The person whose day you might ruin by interrupting them is not the problem--their employer is--but it's very hard for many people to refrain from acting as if that person is responsible when they confront someone. The person whose job it is to read the complaint emails probably isn't having a great time either, but at least they can (hopefully) take a smoke break if they need to.
Also, chat programs are older than social networks. You could even say it's the only application with direct lineage to using a phone as a phone (and let's not forget about texting).

So how can they be the third phase after regular websites and then social networks?
Yeah, the magic feels gone.

They just announced they're (after years of holding the line) opening up the API for publishing photos, so it'll be a spammy feed of corporate stuff very soon.
Agreed.

"Move fast and break things" is a bad strategy if you're operating in the sky. We've been accumulating data that support this view since Wilbur and Orville in 1903.
I think you misunderstood my response, in what you were replying to I was just pointing out web pages are not static documents. I in no way intend to suggest that JavaScript can solve all of the problems with CSS, and also don't agree that the grid system will help much. IMHO the biggest thing missing from the CSS/HTML/JavaScript system is the ability to determine how much space is required to display certain text or elements, vs how much space is available to display them, and the ability to make decisions based on that (recursively) on how other elements are displayed.
Also, if it’s anything like my experience at call centers, there are some workers who hit all the goals and receive just enough reward from the higher ups to be insufferable. I wouldn’t be surprised if that type of group psychology element is gamed by these work places.
It was the West (and Japan people always forget Japan) who invested trillions in the Chinese economy. And not out of charity.
What aspect of playing a contact sport causes brain damage, is it the sudden stop from a tackle or falling and hitting your head on the grass or ...? Can it be mitigated
I just wanted to say that this is a pretty bad comment.
They could literally mandate where defenders line up to make zone more difficult.

They did the same with offensive lines after all.
Have you seen people type Chinese in a T9 keyboard?
My wife grew up in China and typed using that method and faster than her English typing.
Remembering reading about the work done by Jagadish Chandra Bose:

"He researched the mechanism of the seasonal effect on plants, the effect of chemical inhibitors on plant stimuli and the effect of temperature. From the analysis of the variation of the cell membrane potential of plants under different circumstances, he hypothesised that plants can "feel pain, understand affection etc."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose
You have to learn to crawl before you can walk. Many aspiring game developers seem to want to start off making first person zombie shooters in Unity and they suck too.

Although maybe start with Arkanoid or Space Invaders. Maybe Pong is too simple.
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Makes me think of the loading screen from Don't Starve
I admit, I use this banana trick. It's the only way that I shoplift. I place down organic bananas, but using the touchscreen I navigate through "Select by Picture" -> "Fruits" -> "Bananas".
Regarding speed and intelligence, I found an interesting article (while searching for something else):

It's titled "Smart People Really Do Think Faster" and says the speed of nerve impulses in the brain's white matter correlates to intelligence.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102169...
If they were flying their 'friends and family' all about in 2016-17 in response to bookings on their app without bona fide reasons to go to those places (not least with a student pilot as SIC on business jets), then that's an emphatic yes. The FAA made it quite clear well before then that such flights cannot qualify under Part 91.
Not in the same sense that we are. If you go by the Aristotelian and Platonic hierarchy of nature then we know that they are life forms by the fact that they are animated insofar as the metabolic process is concerned. They sedated the metabolic process. It's sort of like when you are hopped up on drugs in the hospital and not moving, you require much less caloric intake because you're expending less energy, similar to that I would suspect.
Roxy Music were smooth, they sounded a bit more upscale than other bands, even bands they were supposed to have drawn influence from. Bryan Ferry knew what he was doing. Avalon was a brilliant album, and I discovered it at 13. I went on to acquire most of their catalogue.

I live in America now and most Americans have never heard of Roxy Music. Granted, I grew up on bands like The Jam, New Model Army, Style Council, The Clash, etc. With the exception of modern EDM artists like Shingo Nakamura and Roger Shah, I still gravitate to Roxy Music and the aforementioned artists.
I really liked Kris Kowal’s general theory of reactivity [1]. It’s a pretty in depth explanation of reactive programming in JavaScript that I found really illuminating. It goes through many different kinds of asynchronous data types and compares them to their synchronous counterparts along the way.

[1]: https://github.com/kriskowal/gtor/blob/master/README.md
General Theory of Reactivity
If you thought face swapping was bad, just wait until someone uses this tech to create AR goggles that let the wearer see everyone “naked”, like having Superman X-ray vision
Because abandoning a universally-interoperable, so-simple-a-child-can-interface-with-it interface to what is otherwise a very hard-to-work-with type of system state is easier than fixing file descriptor exhaustion problems.
I think we might just have to, out of philosophical desperation, define "murder" as a set containing A. the irreversible termination of any economically useful self-directing information processor and B. acts that desensitize our inborn resistance to doing A. The first covers not killing other healthy adults/sentient robots, and the second covers not abusing animals or euthanizing anybody. As far as my gut says that's all you really need out of an ethical system, right?

If I had to assign an evolutionary purpose to why we hate animal abuse so much, it would probably be that whenever the "don't torture squirrels" circuit fails homicide is not far behind.
I do that whenever I have to wait on a progress bar. I zoom in with whatever accessibility options there are, then when a pixel is 3-5mm I put my mouse cursor at the end of the bar and wait.
Depending on the car, not as much as you'd think.

My mechanic has been a mechanic for both IMSA and World Cup Challenge teams, and he went over some of the changes that are seen from road-going versions of what he normally works on (Porsches). Things like heat exchangers have better conductive materials, coolant lines will make multiple passes instead of a single pass, and there are more lines (to increase the surface area of the line), packed in more densely. Coolants used are optimized for a specific temperature range, since they don't have to deal with global conditions of a road car all over the world.

More complex machining for passive cooling (heatsinks) of transaxles, higher airflow towards brake rotors (with specific shield designs, part of which are backed out to catch more air).

The biggest change? Fewer fans, and only as many as required, as they inhibit airflow. Convection does the job well enough as race cars aren't sitting in traffic in hot climates, and aren't sitting around long enough to heat soak from being stationary (but are why the pit crews have blowers). As much aero design goes into routing air for maximizing cooling as there is for creating downforce.

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Formula 1 and WEC (which are more like ground aircraft than anything resembling a road car) are a different story though. Things like the intercoolers for turbochargers are absurdly complex. You're talking four passes through the intercooler, and lines that are basically long surgical needles, with ~13000 packed into each intercooler. All hand built, all very expensive.
Consider how dope it'd be to ~"tree-shake" packages based on config files, if doing immutable infrastructure. Basically, only compile / include the features of the services you run based on what's required by the config files. I'm sure that this is a complex problem, but it shouldn't be impossible to mostly / fully automate.
Closing an elementary campus could save from $600K-$700K a year

... and that's just in operating costs. Any campus that is closed permanently and converted to housing would make tens of millions. My old elementary school property in Cupertino, for example, was developed into half parkland, half new housing.
We have known for years that plants give off a pulse ("scream") when assaulted, communicate chemically etc. I have said for years that the idea that eating plants is morally superior because they aren't sentient is basically speciesist, for lack of a better word.
Keep in mind, this falls under GDPR regulation (data mining email addresses).

“Personal data is any piece of data that, used alone or with other data, could identify a person.

If you collect, change, transmit, erase, or otherwise use or store the personal data of EU citizens, you'll need to comply with the GDPR.”

If you don’t provide services to EU residents, this isn’t applicable.

https://kb.mailchimp.com/accounts/management/about-the-gener...
I look forward to watching my favorite films starring me.
Love the artwork and the work your putting into this. To be honest I'm in the middle of a graphql debate right now because our ad-hoc burger/salad endpoint said are how our API product are currently sold. Much like Burger King we don't grab cheese from a burger and put it on fries for you. This loose system does have its place but so do showing the customer a direct endpoint for burger and salad and letting them know if they want two trips they will be charged for burger and salad.
Agile and Medical Device Development
My current plan does not have a high deductible. Nor did the plan I had at my last employer. So I'm skeptical that high deductibles like yours are typical.

Also, does your plan also allow you to go to any provider for care if you're under your deductible and so are paying out of pocket? If not, you can't shop around even though you are paying the cost. That means you don't really have any market power.

> So what’s the actual proposal here?

I wasn't making a proposal, just highlighting a serious deficiency of the current system. However, the proposal would be obvious: separate out the three kinds of conditions I described and handle them separately.

For emergency care, you would buy insurance, which would work like any other kind of insurance against unanticipated large expenses.

For ordinary predictable expenses and unpredictable but manageable expenses, you would pay out of pocket, just like you pay out of pocket for other ordinary predictable expenses, like food, and other unpredictable but manageable expenses, like household repairs. In other words, it would be just like any other market. And like any other market, there would probably be businesses trying to sell "care plans" where you pay a fixed amount per month and get comprehensive coverage, much like existing plans (and like the extended care plans that car dealers will offer you when you buy a car). But it would be your choice whether to buy them or not, based on your particular circumstances and attitude towards risk.

In such a market there would also be an obvious business opportunity for plans insuring against non-emergency but chronic conditions like cancer. There would also be incentives to widen the risk pool. If there is a place where the power of the government could be used usefully, it would be here: treat all citizens as a single risk pool and negotiate with insurers for coverage of just these conditions based on actuarial data over the entire population. But I'm not optimistic that it would be politically possible to limit the government's involvement to just that.
I feel very similarly. It reminds me of facebook's transition to the News Feed -- even without ads, the introduction of a content algorithm ruined my main use case for the platform: following just my very central friend group and seeing everything they post.

On the plus side, Facebook has now taught me (twice!) that they (or any other "social media" company) can't be trusted. Now I'm just deciding whether I should give up social media altogether. I already deleted my Facebook since it became completely useless over the past few years (friends don't post, I don't see their posts when they do, notifications are useless and diluted), I'm considering deleting my instagram (far, far, far too many ads; friends don't post as much)... is it worth it to try to build out a presence on Mastodon? Or is that doomed, too?
Improved apparmor load times in Solus
It's your brain bumping into your skull. Usually caused by sudden deceleration.
My favorite only half joking comment on vegitarianism is "So you're saying that you are racist against plants?" [0]

0. The pedant in me says kingdomist.
Commercial aviation has more regulations and procedures around it, and stricter standards. As a consequence, flying on a commercial plane is orders of magnitude safer than flying on private plane.

Here's some statistics on that: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/Pages/aviation_stat... . Basically, you are 10x more likely to be in a fatal accident on a private plane than to be in any kind of accident at all on a commercial airline.
What is the difference between this and something like Google Analytics?
Tax laws are designed to encourage certain types of behavior. Funding non-profits is one of those behaviors. IKEA is setup to fund a non-profit that has a mission that tax law is designed to encourage. If you wanted to donate all of your income, you could probably get similar treatment.

Also keep in mind that IKEA still generates significant tax revenues in employment tax, sales tax, property tax, etc. In the US the property tax is what pays for the physical infrastructure you speak of.
I used to see them, but recently they have all vanished. No idea why. Maybe I was too low engagement.

The addition of stories does make it feel busier though. I'm enjoying my time on it much less than I used to. Even after muting stories from people whose stories I wasn't interested in watching.
I run http://selfracingcars.com/ - we are trying!
I think some of the reason the BSDs are moving away from it is no one uses it much and no one really maintains it. It just never got the traction on BSD like it did Linux.

procfs should just be the place to get information on and fiddle with processes, but on Linux, for example, you can fiddle with all manner of unrelated extraneous things. This caused the different procfs implementations to all be different enough to kill interoperability making it so that POSIX was the only fallback. So, if you wanted to write a cross-platform process fiddler you would need to use POSIX or write a number of different codepaths to interface with the number of different procfses. This lack of interoperability and replication of features was probably what killed it.

Going to expressiveness: procfs is more expressive than using structs or so. It does all of what the structs do, but are more available to programs than the structs because its all some files. On 9front you're able to mount another machines procs and debug or whatever the programs running on that machine. Also you're able to use any language you want if it can read files because you don't need to use any external functions beyond the syscalls.
Somehow I completely missed the news about the standalone Instagram messaging app (called Direct, for anybody interested). Looks like I should jump ship just like I did with Facebook before it's too late.
Indeed! how could all humans beat the index?
Okay, fair enough. If there's the slightest whiff of anctual wrongdoing related to the creation of credit locks, by all means, rake them over the coals.

But, really, what should they have done instead? Do you think they shouldn't have implemented credit locks at all? Because I'm sure then you would get articles about how they weren't doing enough to help consumers secure their credit, just the same old inconvenient credit freezes (and I would agree).

I think that, for a person's criticism to carry any weight, there has to be a course of action that that person wouldn't criticize.
not really, but it depends on the class. A gt3cup car has a boatload of changes. Race-built engines, different suspension, etc. gt4s are closer to the stock car. TC even more so.
VEE – Return of the King
Fascinating to see some of the same movement and trends emerging from the elementary school kids, as with the original Place.

That diagonal rainbow exists somewhere in the universal consciousness, I tells ya.
They mention that sedating bacteria can cause them to “pause” as well. Are bacteria considered conscious?
Now we can't eat plants or animals. Sounds like a killer way to lose weight!
Here's a video where they strip the Tesla of almost everything to make it faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARzujfRiQ3c

I think that's just about all you can do to improve on it, though.
"All of these bullsht ICO’s, shtcoins and ponzis need to be cleared out, the exact same way pets.com, boo.com and all those other dot bombs had to be cleared out as well." A new wave of high quality ICOs is on deck and as the article points out a slope of enlightenment, an upward curve is on its way. Time to buy.
Another PR piece. I wish magazines stopped this kind of practices.