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>I buy these things regardless of their advertising

They are not trying to increase the size of the pie, they are trying to increase their share of it. Yes, (nearly) everyone already buys these household items, but are you brand indifferent? Do you just reach for whatever is closest when you walk down the toothpaste aisle or do you buy the same product over and over? When was the last time you switched brands or even product lines within the same brand? This is why these ads exist; not to coerce you into buying toothpaste, but to convince you to buy _their_ toothpaste (that has the highest profit margin).
> No, that's not it.

That has to be at least partially it for the rest of your comment to be right (which it is!). To say the atom was "held nearly motionless" is to say it moved a little during the exposure. It sent the light toward the sensor from all of its positions.
When I've seen "always follow priority order," it's always been somewhere between "[wink wink] that's a good idea, figure out how to link it to the top-priority stuff" and "all priorities are negotiable" anyway. Was your experience similar, or just more of a team truly without external priority ordering?
The ISS is way too high maintenance for a profitable business. Putting humans in space is too expensive.

Humans jut do not belong in space yet. Most science and astronomy missions can will continue to be performed through machinery and automation. The cancellation of all most of the other missions is a direct result from this focus. We are all very curious about what's out there, and the absolute better way to satiate this curiosity and to actually discover new things is with machine focused missions: rovers, landers, and specially telescopes.

Further study into the effects of space on humans for the purposes of leaving Earth due to some apocalypse is very exagerated as well. Even in a bad apocalyptic scenario, the resulting Earth would still be better to live in than any other planet or moon we currently can reach.

The pictures from back from Juno, New Horizons, the Mars rovers, and the Hubble continue to inspire the future generations, and earn support from the general populace already.
I think it's both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand it makes it very easy for teams to find an approach that works for them, and does away with a lot of bureaucracy.

On the other, it promotes a lot of inefficiencies (I knew of at least 8 separate instances of Phabricator being used by different teams), and makes it very difficult to centralize core tooling and operations. It also makes it very hard for engineers to have internal mobility (you typically would have to do a full interview loop as an internal transfer, which is in stark contrast Google / FB's approach).

When I left there was talk of centralizing more tooling to attempt to alleviate some of these issues, but I don't know if any progress has been made since then.
To summarize:

We now mirror GitHub PRs into Gerrit. Gerrit is still our upstream Git server. Gerrit is still where we do reviews and press the "Merge" button. (And once merged, it gets mirrored back to GitHub)

But now we have a bot that slurps PRs into Gerrit and syncs comments back and forth and closes PRs when needed. (We'll do more fine-grained comment sync in the future. We just shipped an "MVP" for the Go 1.11 tree opening).

Some more information is at https://golang.org/wiki/GerritBot

Code is at https://github.com/golang/build/blob/master/cmd/gerritbot/ge...
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Considering they have over 4,000 active job postings for Seattle and are building several new office towers... No.
Netflix stopped serving It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and now those torrents are really really popular =)
I did this when I was in Thailand and thought it was completely insane and wasteful. It's shocking people do this because they don't like the taste of their tap water. Just purify it if you hate it that much? Also, the taste of any water pretty much disappears once you get used to it, so the thought of someone hating tap water is just absurd.
>short-sighted nonsense so some senior leader can hit an arbitrary goal and get a bonus

This is in fact how most business decisions are made.
These communities are my favorite on the internet. One of the most insane things is how active the userbase is (granted, inactives are pruned.) But on my favorite trackers, it's common to see 33% of users logged in within 24h, something like 50-60% in the past week, and ~75% in the past month.
Perfect time for the ol' throwaway...

I'm a former iOS EPM (not speaking for Apple, obviously, since I don't work there anymore), and although the Reddit commenter got the atmosphere of constant crisis right, he/she is misplacing the blame and misunderstanding the power dynamic. EPMs at Apple essentially have zero power over engineers' workload. They take the list of stuff the engineering managers said they want to get done this year and say "You guys are crazy, you'll never be able to do this without 3x the hours/manpower." Then they proceed to drive the team as hard as necessary to make sure that they actually deliver what they said they were going to deliver. That's it. The idea that there is this cabal of mighty EPMs twirling their mustaches and loading developers down with work is pretty far from reality.

It's true that you shouldn't be working on anything not in Radar (the bug tracker) but this is true anywhere you'll work. Project managers however do not sign developers up for all those radars--on the contrary--we're usually trying desperately to help you get rid of scope and get the task list down to what's actually do-able!

One of the great things that IMHO sets Apple apart is how engineering-driven they are. I've never worked anywhere else where engineers had so much freedom to decide what they're working on. The fact that they always decide to work on 3x what they can actually achieve is kind of on them. But that drive to try to do so much is part of what keeps innovation strong at Apple.
At this point they're historic artifacts worthy of preservation. Retire them to a museum.
> My main problem with physicalism is that it doesn't handle abstraction well. I'm fine with monism over dualism but you need some kind of functionality with which to consider different kinds of 'stuff'. Otherwise a rock, Conway's Game of Life, and Lord of the Rings are all on the same plane of existence.

Yes! This bothered me as well, until I recently encountered Sean Carroll's philosophy of "Poetic Naturalism":

1. There are many ways of talking about the world.

2. All good ways of talking must be consistent with one another and with the world.

3. Our purposes in the moment determine the best way of talking.

One way of talking about the Game of Life simulation running in my other browser tab is as a bunch of electrons bouncing around in my computer's CPU. Another way of talking about it is as a cellular automaton obeying Conway's rules. And they're consistent with one another; e.g., if I stop the electrons by shutting down the computer, I expect the automaton to stop running.

In retrospect, it's pretty obvious. But it must not have been _too_ obvious, because it presents a viewpoint that isn't quite physicalism and isn't quite dualism, and people have been arguing back and forth about that for a long time.

Sean Carroll, The Big Picture
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Picture-Origins-Meaning-Universe/...
Open solutions are by nature more flexible.
It's just a start. They have a more powerful grasp on the world supply of food than the joint grasp of Google, Microsoft, and Apple on the computing world.

You'd be surprised how many "artisan", "organic", and "fair-trade" brands they own, too.

The full list of their brands did not fit in the main Wikipedia article, so they had to create a separate one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands.
That wasn't the proposal, the proposal was to enforce better information availability to consumers by displaying the owners of the brand prominently.

IANANC but my understanding is that a true market is two-sided: it requires informed consumers. Initiatives that bolster the buyer-side of the market aren't anti-market.
Never saw or heard anything about my performance being tied to the number of radars I fixed or closed, and I never heard anyone else I worked with say that either. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, like every big company there are managers who are good, and managers who don't really get it.
> plus it can all be deleted at any time if its on their platforms

No service like that will ever be big (ie mass consumer), if it involves installing and operating the infrastructure yourself. There are no exceptions, there never will be.

There's a reason automatic / SaaS blogs smashed the self hosting market. Handling all of that yourself is wildly obnoxious, if not entirely impossible, for an average person. Wordpress.com is far larger than self hosted Wordpress at this point. Movable Type died for this fundamental reason (they failed at the transition to being a SaaS, and died in the self-managed fire). Then you have Tumblr, et al.

There's a reason nearly all content publishing occurs on centralized systems. And a reason why basically all efforts to decentralize that have failed.

There's a reason decentralized social (eg that might compete with Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit) has never taken off and will never take off.

99% of all potential users do not want to operate their own setup and they never will. Decentralize-everything is the ultimate fantasy (you'll see it in nearly every thread about social media on HN going back to the beginning). It's a near universal failure, because it's echo chamber thinking that ignores what 99% of end users actually care about. It's typically an engineer confusing what they want or care about versus what the larger market cares about.

My suggestion: do not, under any circumstances, go down the decentralized content publishing path. It's the path of failure and tears, without exception.
>> If the stated problem is to find a conforming hash, all you have to do is to try it once, and bingo, you’ve affected the global hash rate, and for that one attempt you were a participant helping others solve the problem. You did not need to tell others that you did it (unless you actually found a solution), others didn’t need to know about it, but your attempt did affect the outcome. For the whole universe, no less.

>> It is noteworthy that since SHA is progress-free, each attempt could be thought of as a participant joining the effort and immediately leaving. Thus miners join and leave, trillions of times per second.

Is the value of pooled mining that participants in the pool share the nounce they’re calculating, to avoid duplicating work within the pool?
Not what I was expecting but exactly what my day needed.
> with piles of cash justify not giving raises or passing laying off people

Probably for the same reason that you don't give to me your cash left over after expenses and taxes.
That 1GB of RAM per 1TB of disk is a recommendation from the ZFS documentation, but let's remember the audience, and the feature sets enabled when we talk about it. In particular, that suggestion stemmed from running in a configuration with file deduplication enabled and heavy amounts of caching, which ZFS is made to take advantage of.

The high memory usage profile definitely isn't from an extra 4 bytes on a pointer, but from design and features of the filesystem.
Amazon's reputation as a caring, paternalistic employer is also very well known in the Seattle area. Most of their new employees are imports for that reason, brought in ignorant and tethered by relocation expenses.
I wonder what backblaze is up to these days...
Thanks for the reply. It looks cool, good luck!

I've actually made a couple of apps in this space over the years. Radi [1] was an HTML5 canvas+video animation app with a Flash-style timeline released back in 2010, though long since defunct. Neonto Studio [2] is a design environment for native mobile apps. React Studio [3] is an offshoot from the Neonto Studio product for making web apps, it's free.

My experience is that designers are not a great target market for this kind of product because their influence and competence is fundamentally limited. They just don't have the sway within a team or organization to push developers to make use of anything that looks like code coming from the design side. To make the sales pitch even more complicated, most designers are pretty happy with this state of affairs – they already have plenty of work and don't really want the extra responsibility and learning curve involved in making anything production-ready.

There's a reason why Sketch is so popular among designers: it's because it does so little. It doesn't try to model anything or actually represent anything about what makes user interfaces tick, it's just a pared-down Illustrator.

You seem to be working up from animations towards UI components in general. I hope that approach works out for you.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20120509083927/http://radiapp.com...
[2] http://neonto.com/nativestudio
[3] https://reactstudio.com
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Check out diigo.com, they're approaching this problem from a few unique angles.
But I didn't say there wasn't a cost, just that everyone else will be paying it and the cost may not affect consumers. Pricing doesn't just reflect the cost but other factors too.
Indeed. The correct corralary is "Things that don't improve aren't being measured"

E.g. negating A => B yields !B => !A
Legal personhood is a concept that applies to ships, cities, states, and countries as well as human beings and corporations. It's a legal fiction that serves specific legal purposes; abandoning the entire concept because you don't think corporations should have the same set of rights as human beings is excessive because different types of legal persons already have different sets of legal rights.
For the electronic B2C stuff in the EU, the requirement is two non-conflicting sources. Something like geolocation and card billing address should suffice in most cases (assuming you have access to the customer's IP address and they're paying by card, which is surely a fairly common situation for a SaaS).
Yes I believe that is correct but one consequence of an intake unstart in a J58 is that the afterburner will also stop functioning. I'm not sure what the proper term is when an afterburner stops producing thrust. Maybe flame out?

Regardless, this was the cause of the violent yaw/roll action associated with an unstart (loss of thrust). When the intake was reconfigured the afterburner had to be re-lit and in a J58 this requires TEB. So while TEB was not used to correct the unstart it still had to be used after an unstart.
Gut feel, last year was negative growth from all the complaining of my foreigner friends (midlevel and higher execs) in SH
That's funny if they've had a hiring freeze since last week I got contacted by an Amazon recruiter wanting me to move to Seattle
Yes, unstarts became less common but they still happened.
Exactly, forego all "techniques" and just make them feel loved no matter what. Then let them discover the world, pursue their own interests. Take a step back and don't let your fears hold them back. Challenge and push them gently when their fears hold them back.

They won't be perfect, they were raised by imperfect persons after all, but with enough love they'll be ok.
Wonder why they dont just leave them in space, could make a good chassis or building block for building bigger space stations
I find it hard to believe you “care” either way so I’m chalking this up to edgelord signaling.
is your account yielding you more than 25k in discounted cash flow? if not, why not sell?
Surely because they have to if they want to continue to have access to content.
The problem with the GDPR isn't that it is too far-reaching. The problem is that it isn't clear what companies have to do to comply with the new regulation.

Large companies will simply pay their lawyers to deal with this. Small companies basically will have to do their best and hope they don't get sued.
Not sure if I agree re: divorce.

Mummy and Daddy are the most basic, rock-solid concepts for a child, and a divorce can't be anything but world-redefining for any child not yet old enough to have an understanding of the complexities of human relationships.

Yes, this does depend on the "showing up"-ness of each parent.

My kids are strongly attached to their mother. She's the primary go-to, but if I'm away for work, or late home for whatever reason, they're surprisingly happy and comforted when I return home.

If we got divorced, the kids would be shattered and it would affect them forever. The scale depends on their resilience, but they would be changed for the worse in the immediate. Future-wise, maybe it would better prepare them for the challenges of life and instill them with some kind of resilience, but I think there would be a part of them permanently broken.

It's all shades of grey though, it all depends on the healthiness of the parents relationship. A divorce can be a better option for kids if the parents' relationship is unhealthy.
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Got one today too. Put on a Gore tex coat and stood under the shower, on cold, for a half an hour, and decided that Seattle is probably not to my liking outside of, say, late July.
Yes? Companies are made up of people and have founders who are "actual people". He also acted as an artist in various positions within his company (producer, actor, director, writer, animator). On the whole, his copyrights were owned by the company, though. He died in 1966, and that has no bearing on when copyrights owned by the Walt Disney Company will expire.

Who, specifically, is that 1928 copyright still encouraging to create new media? How does it benefit society more to have insanely-long copyright terms than it would to free up creations earlier for riffs, remixes, and so on?
And who will be deciding what is "toxic"? Corporate pressure to make companies who already lean towards a political monoculture even more inclined to silence dissenting views is really not encouraging if you believe that discovering the truth requires exposing yourself to a broad range of ideas.
This makes me think of Voyager 1's pale blue dot photograph. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blu...

I find the parallel awesome.
> You'd be surprised how many "artisan", "organic", and "fair-trade" brands they own, too.

I get the quotes on "artisan," but why put them around two terms with very clear definitions?

Fair trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade

Organic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification
It's an interesting and fairly unique problem as highlighted by this part of the article:

> there is no advantage to a steakhouse trying to convince someone looking specifically for vegetarian food to come eat at their restaurant—all you would get are bad reviews and lower sales numbers.

It's possible that Google could bring up a custom UI for that query, as they do with many other search queries, but it could also be an uncomfortably political statement for such a large company.

Perhaps the solution lies in a private website designed to weed out those 'crisis pregnancy center' results and centralize abortion center locations? With enough traffic, it would rise to the top of search results.
I’ve only ever visited Seattle in the second half of July and found it to be stellar.
That having been said, torrenting in some ways seems healthier than ever. On a median retail connection I can download an entire season in 30 minutes while I'm getting ready some food, or the first episode in 5 minutes and get started watching. When I was a kid and still used torrents regularly, it wasn't like that. Much of that has to do with better connections and cheap bandwidth, but it's a fact of use nonetheless.

In short, I'd have killed 5 or 10 or 15 years ago for the torrent speed/quality/content that's available today. That says something.
That functionality doesn't exist today, so it would be a new protocol. One that would be almost as complicated as HTTPS, would be starting from zero as opposed to the 50% usage of HTTPS on the internet, would require new code to be written which hasn't been thoroughly tested for security issues and would provide inferior assurance to HTTPS. All for the sake of being "simpler."

With regards to signing content, this already exists in the form of code signing. Given the amount of software that isn't signed I doubt it would be practical for anything else e.g. blog posts.
Law trumps technical means.

The privacy regulators have the authority to enter your business and server locations and look directly at the data you have and what you do with it.

Also, laws do have an impact even if there is no technical mean to enforce it. Working without paying taxes is forbidden but has no technical means of ensuring it. Yet, most pay taxes.

What is so difficult about deleting, not collecting and not using data?
yeah, i paid less than a dollar for a super cheap domain, and created a catch-all email forwarder that lets me create any random email forwarding address that all forwards to my one email. i've used this method in the past to get unlimited free things at certain establishments that offer welcome gifts to new rewards accounts.
Do you really watch the same movie every month?
That makes me feel sick :(

Here in south eastern Canada to fly less than 100km from my town to the largest city (Halifax) costs about $500. Passenger trains are not common and any available are old and slow.

I wish we could have a fast rail service here but it would be very expensive to build.
Does amazon really employ 40,000 people in its corporate headquarters? Microsoft does, but it has a much much bigger campus.
They sort of talk around dealing with the content, along some other super vague ideas about platforms that "make a positive contribution to society" but really this seems to be more about keeping their ads away from that content.

I'm not sure it really addresses the content itself, everyone else's adds will just fill that gap.
Not at all. Objective Idealism doesn't claim physicalism is wrong because it only has "one kind of stuff", but rather about what kind of stuff that one "stuff" is.

The failure many see in physicalism is that the physical sciences can't (yet, if ever) tell us how there's a qualitative nature to our experience — that it feels like something to experience at all. How the eye turns photons into nerve signals, and increasing amounts about how the brain processes those signals into content, sure. What it's like to experience color, or even how there is such a thing as experiencing color and not merely electrochemical signals traversing myelinated tubes, not so much.

Consider, however: all of the content of your experience could somehow be false (think of how true and vivid a dream can feel, for example), but the simple, content-irrespective fact that you are having an experience can't be faked, can it? Wouldn't you still have an experience of having a faked experience? This is variously called an illusion, an emergent phenomenon, the "hard problem of consciousness", and many other things, with varying degrees of politeness.

Objective Idealism posits instead that this very experiential-ness itself is the fundamental "stuff" of reality, and that all of the content of what you experience, — specifically including the experience you have of being an individual, distinct "you", and even the phenomena that we call "matter" and "energy", themselves — somehow supervenes on it.

For now, the question isn't falsifiable, so it's often also dismissed as meaningless — not least by people who subscribe to physicalism and don't want to play any more, when this line of inquiry comes up...

EDIT: phrasing.
Thanks, wasn't aware of that trove of information!
Heh, wrong link. It should be https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...