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This is a debate in the industry with wide-ranging implications. It basically boils down to will we have a wireless future as the primary means of Internet delivery or will we not?

And there's no clear answer. Sure 5G (even 4G) is fast but could it handle, say, all of Manhattan using it with no fixed line Internet? I have my doubts even with the 5G focus on concurrent connections. Or if it could it may just suck a lot of the time.

Wired (particularly fiber) has many distinct advantages:

1. The lifespan of the infrastructure is like 30-40+ years, possibly much longer;

2. Once you have the fiber in place it's pretty easy to change the lasers at either end and boost the speed, likely to 10Gbps+ if required;

3. Fiber unlike wireless doesn't suffer from interference and the amount of data you can get down a conduit with all the fiber strands you can fit is simply gigantic.

But of course wireless doesn't have the massive upfront capex cost that a fixed-line network does. As much as people (reasonably) deride the US cable industry, high speed Internet pretty much exists in the US because of riding the coattails of the infrastructure that was built in the latter part of the 20th century. Who knows where we'd be without it?

If you had to build that infrastructure from scratch today the cost would be astronomical. This isn't unique to cable or telecommunications either. It seems like in virtually every Western country the cost of infrastructure has ballooned to the point where many things that exist now would just be uneconomical to create now (eg rail and subways in major US cities) and that's going to be a huge problem going forward.

Of course this isn't a binary problem. The future may be a hybrid (eg wireless last-mile).

As for your point about cable companies fighting competition at the regulatory level, absolutely true. It's not a simple issue however. As much as cable companies are desperately fighting commoditization (they don't want to be the provider of dumb Internet pipes), an overbuild with a fixed-line network doesn't make much sense either economically.

It's why we only have one water network, one gas network and one electrical grid (per region; many in the US have this deluded view that regional monopolies are somehow "competition"). It's also why utilities are highly regulated as they are monopolies. It's also why ISPs need to be regulated as a monopoly. Internet is the so-called 4th utility.

But this regulation will prevent naked price gouging. It will however impact the cost per kWh and ultimately regulators will have to relent to let them raise prices to cover costs.
The requirements that GDPR imposes on development and data handling are much more broad than the right to be forgotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
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I wonder if any tech companies are for or against this "surprising" turn of events...

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-china-xi-zuckerberg-cook-beiji...
I don’t think I can disclose that, but I’m in Italy so it’s probably not very comparable.
Even outside of Google's own organic political preferences, people with political preferences aren't excluded from markets Google is trying to win, so (without regulations applying to all market participants), Google has strong incentives for reactive involvement in politics.
Do you have any plans for self-hosting or E2EE?
Congrats Chris! Look forward to trying it. But as of now, I’m getting this error.

{"data":null,"errors":{"message":"Cannot destructure property `MAILCHIMP_API_KEY` of 'undefined' or 'null'."}}
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> this particle physics is just silly and it will never lead to anything but more tiny and faster particles which do inexplicable things.

Wikipedia has a section on the practical applications of particle physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics#Practical_app....
I am more into USA state of thinking, money justifies everything. So I have mentioned it as a bussiness model. ;)
> Nothing stopping it, nope. I'm surprised there isn't something currently.

There is - ironically, by the owners of Xamarin:

https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/

Hadn't heard of it practically at all since the initial announcement. It seems it's a very small team: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp/pulse
You won't do it alone, but if most of your friends start doing that, either you mess up their training dataset by introducing a lot of noise, or you all will get flagged as outliers. Both situations are win comparing to learned helplessness one might fall into when realizing the ways how this data can be misused.
You shouldn't focus on the committee. You should focus on the publications. That's the coin of the realm.
This is actually really well commented and instructional
The cells lining the entire upper GI are exposed to digestive enzymes, and are perforce replaced rapidly and constantly. Until bicarbonate rich bile is added to the mixture in the duodenum, those enzymes (and acids) eat your own cells too. Chemotherapy plays havoc with your GI tract because it selectively kills cells which rapidly divide.

As for histamines, mast cells are designed to respond to them and rupture as part of your inflammatory cycle. They release more cytokines, recruiting neutrophils and in general telling your immune system to attack.
Super sorry about that, we'll fix that asap! This is an issue normaly just on the mobile site, you can give it a try on the desktop in the meantime
I don't understand this. Why would you want to interview with a company whose core product you do not support?
I mean paid or unpaid, people need to be given some kind (food, rest, or otherwise) of a break in a 6-8 hour period.
All available facts and identifiable causes of climate change are relevant if we are interested in science. Cherry picking facts or trying to hide their significance is anti-scientific.

Your three statements are anti-scientific.

1. It's not merely "local" to the NW of N America, since a similar fact is known of Scandinavia where the rebound is still ongoing and significantly changing relative sea levels. (Your "local" sleight of hand is an attempt to minimize the significance of the scientific fact, and pretend that only man-made climate change is "global".)

2. The ice sheet covering North America was larger than the current ice sheet in Antarctica, and it melted in the course of climate changes. (Your "removed" sleight of hand is an attempt to hide non-man-made causes.)

3. It's a fact that sea level is a changing relationship between oceans and lands, influenced by tectonic activity, by climate, and even by the moon. On the one hand when large amounts of water are captured in massive ice sheets, the general water level is lower; on the other hand ice sheets push the land so far down, that the relative ocean level is higher as seen from the land. Whether climate changes are appreciably due to this or that cause, relative sea level has been changing for eons, a lot. (The "nothing to do with man made climate change" is an anti-scientific attempt to dis-integrate facts and theories of past and future climate change.)
Hey this is the field I did my PhD in!

Some fun facts:

* The flux of particles in this energy regime is so low that you get about 1 per square kilometer per century, so studying them necessitates doing really wild stuff like instrumenting a patch of land the size of Rhode Island.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Auger_Observatory

* These particles are so energetic that in their frame the nominally low-energy photons that comprise the cosmic microwave background appear as an impenetrable gamma ray wall thats prevents them from traveling more than about 100 million lightyears. This seems like an incredible distance but in astronomical terms this means that whatever is producing them is "nearby." We also know they don't come from our own galaxy because arrival directions don't correlate to the galactic plane.

* Current consensus says that these particles probably come from very large and active black holes in the center of certain galaxies. These objects are called active galactic nuclei (AGN).
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The drop in demand is certainly driven by things other than the cost of energy, because energy has gotten mildly cheaper over the last ten years, during which time the demand has stayed the same.

You could argue that those factors, whether they're outsourcing of heavy industry or whatever, will prove stronger than the dramatic decreases in energy prices brought by photovoltaics. But that doesn't seem very likely, because photovoltaics are dropping in price about 30% per year, while whatever forces are limiting demand for electrical energy seem to have been just sufficient to keep energy demand increase down to 1% during 2006-2016 (the last ten years on the graph), almost exactly counterbalancing a 14% increase in GDP over the same period. That is, they're pushing down electrical energy demand by about 1.3% per year. So if the long-term price elasticity of energy demand is somewhere in the neighborhood of -0.8, which seems like a reasonable guess based on a cursory glance at the econometrics research, we would expect energy demand to grow by about 25% per year once photovoltaics are the marginal source of energy — or 24% if whatever mysterious anti-growth figures this article is about continue to operate in the same way.

Now, you could argue that maybe the elasticity isn't -0.8. Maybe it's -0.2 or -1.2. But to suppose that a sudden and sustained 30% yearly drop in the price of energy would be wholly counterbalanced by whatever has held energy consumption constant over the last ten years requires the wholly implausible assumption that the absolute value of the elasticity is smaller than about 0.05.

You might argue that photovoltaic modules aren't really dropping in prices 30% per year. The old page at https://www.solarserver.com/service/pvx-spot-market-price-in... shows the historical price history from PVXchange from May 2009 (€2.62/Wp in Europe) to May 2017 (€0.45/Wp in Europe), and PVXchange's current prices http://www.pvxchange.com/priceindex/default.aspx?template_id... are €0.37/Wp in Europe in the "mainstream" division. Averaged over 8 years and 7 months, that's a 1.88% price drop per month, which works out to 20% per year (not 23%, as you might think). But much of that 20% was in the 2013–2015 price plateau, during which time the prices remained almost unchanged, and which seems to be over. Now, shipping volumes are way up, and so we should move much more rapidly down the learning curve. So 30% is, if not an open-and-shut prediction, at least a plausible one.

We aren't seeing these demand-stimulation effects yet because, although photovoltaics' growth and price reduction is exponential and rapid, they're still only a tiny percentage of the overall marketed energy supply, and we don't have grid-scale storage online yet. That's why it will take until the early 2020s for these effects to become dominant — maybe even later in the US.
Well, we know no other way of building them other than by making big honking machines. It's similar to spaceflight; are you against this as well?
Exactly. They always seem much more painful than say a cut on your arm. I still don't know what is the underlying "mechanism" of a canker sore/mouth ulcer. Why do physiological conditions manifest as a "wound" in a random area of the mouth?
> Staying silent isn't an endorsement of the status quo.

Yes, acceptance of the status quo without active opposition is endorsement of the status quo as good enough.

It may be “good enough” because you actually approve or “good enough” because it's too far down your list of priorities to do anything about right now or “good enough” because you can't even be bothered to care what's going on, among other options, but it all effectively amounts to the same thing in practical terms, however different they might be in terms of your internal feelings.
Interesting, a day and a half later Trump announces he is running for a second term:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brad-parscale-trump-2020-campag...
Thanks for the clarification. I did not read the link I posted carefully, I was searching from memory for the article that I'd thought I'd read. Obviously I got the wrong one and there have been further developments.

The aspect of personhood that I'm referring to is the idea that we have two people inside of us, that develop independently. That's a really weird one to wrap my "brains" around. That the body works to recreate one personhood after the callosum is split is pretty clear indication that there's one only 'self' at play here. Both hemispheres cooperate to create it.

While I'm sure you can create some weird Frankenstein by cutting off all the ways for the hemispheres to communicate, this is just doing damage to the self, might as well just put a bullet in there and be done with it. A collosotomy by itself doesn't destroy the self, the cohesive identity of the body as having one mind.
The bug in your explanation is that turning the steering wheel performs a rotation (which moves vectors along the edges of circles) on your velocity vector, but in spacetime that would be a hyperbolic rotation (which moves vectors along hyperbolas). The result of this is:

If I am an outside observer measuring your position with a very long ruler and your time with my wristwatch, all while watching your dashboard clock, I have access to three numbers. (Your clock, my watch, your position on my long ruler.)

There are three ways to compare these numbers. If I compare my watch to your position down the ruler, I will obtain "classical speed." The behavior of this number is very confusing when it is high.

I may also compare your dashboard clock with my ruler position, or your dashboard clock with my watch. Both of these can lead to a "speed," in the sense of one number changing at a certian rate with respect to another.

If Vx is the rate of change of the ruler position with respect to your dashboard clock, and Vt is the rate of change of my wristwatch with respect to your dashboard clock, and c is the speed of light, then it turns out to be always true that c^2*Vt^2 - Vx^2 = c^2. If you graph this you will see that it is a hyperbola.

In the parent's example, the car situation would obey V(north)^2 + V(south)^2 = 100mph^2. If you graph that it is a circle, as it differs from the above by the minus sign.
Just in case, the previous mechanism wasn't that much safe:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/26/scientist...

The paper has been published only in 2016, with a few amendments to "hide" (maybe) the parts that could have led to replication by thiefs:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2971826/cybercrime-hac...

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...

Please note how the Authors only tested a few VW models, but Porsche and a number of other luxury car manufacturers used the same chip/mechanism so that itis very likely to be hackable in a similar way.
> One can agree or disagree, but like he says : “classes are nice but they are not necessary in Javascript”. I would say, since they are here and make life easier for a lot of people, you can use them for whatever reason you want

How unnecessary classes make life easier for a lot of people? It's probably one of the worst JS anti-patterns.
> advertisers pay you to show ads to EU users because they want to get money from EU users; so these advertisers are/have to be GDPR compliant

This is the part I'm not sure is true.

Sure, if the ad agency's company motto is "delivering ads to EU users since XXXX", they obviously have to be compliant, but what if they are a US-based ad agency and none of the companies selling them ad space are in the EU? How many layers does one need to circumvent this?
But this isn't a new problem at all. Loss adjusters have already been doing this for many industries where someone can be killed. Insurance for normal cars already does it even! Why are self-driving cars any different?
Supporters of the status quo can say whatever they want; that doesn't make it true. The absence of complaints does not imply that people are "happy" with the situation, and silence is not an endorsement of anything. Anyone who claims otherwise should take some time to learn about basic logical fallacies.
I'm an anesthesiologist by specialty, with experience as a GP/Family practitioner; the answer to your first question is above my medical pay grade.

In regard to the second, I can say this: in the ER, a human bite is considered FAR more dangerous than a dog bite, because the human mouth has more — and more dangerous —
pathogens. The mouth is much dirtier (not cleaner) than skin.
This will limit you to 1 in 3 jobs open to foreigners. Which is still very good. See, the main value of a foreign specialist is that he is foreign and supposedly have rare expertise. Second to that, you will most likely to be hired with an idea in mind that you can liaise with overseas customers/specialists/authorities and etc even if your job does not implicitly require that.

Best option is to actively solicit contacts and network a lot. Foreign professionals are a closely knit club here. Industry events are the best if you know nobody here.

Look for job offers in English, job boards of companies with a record hiring foreigners, foreign companies that are new in China, super senior level positions, jobs with PhD. level expertise level, jobs requiring people skills in English "product managers/ field application engineers/ sales or solution engineers"

Websites: 51job, zhaopin, ChinaHR. Look for English language keywords. A post in English almost certainly assumes the company keeps hiring a foreigner an option.
Soda? You must be from St. Louis.
Not surprising at all. In fact, many of the Chinese expats (visitors of mitbbs.com) are pro-china in general. They become less agreeing to western values after spending years in US. (I am one of those examples myself)
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Do you handle shipments to Amazon FBA?
Fetch Events: My first bootstrapped side project with monetisation intents
A new approach to machine learning aimed at experimental imaging data
You can do that after mmap(2) and you never have to reach out for read(2). Might need to use unsafe language constructs though.
You can also irreversibly hash sensitive data it so you can still use it for debugging.
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When the drought was at its worst here in CA, there was a concern that LADWP would have to jack up their rates because people were doing such a good job conserving water. They have lots of fixed costs (salaries, pensions, infrastructure improvements) but their incoming $ is tied pretty tightly to consumption
California actually changed the incentive structure for PG&E to deal with this issue. One of the reasons California has had flat demand despite growing a lot.
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I'm a woman, so different situation, but I took most photos of me offline at some point. Later, I began putting up new ones, but it was handled differently. There are more than two photos of me, but there aren't tons. I actually like being photographed, or did in my youth. But I don't like having photos of me all over the internet.

Years ago, I joined an all female Yahoo group that was a spin off from a parenting and homeschooling list I had been active on. I put up a photo of me on my yahoo profile that was in no way intended to be sexy. My long standing friends in this small group of 20 members wanted to know what I looked like and it was for them.

Within 24 hours, I was being solicited by some 19 year old total stranger who lived within an hour of my home who wanted to know if I would sleep with him. My oldest child was 16.

I laughed and my reply clearly signalled that I was laughing in his face and he did not write back. But it did not stop there. Other men would write me and go into graphic detail as to how they would like to spend the next 3 day weekend in bed with me. The only thing they knew about me was what I looked like. That was it.

At some point, I pulled all photos of me off the internet that I had any control over. The only remaining photos were taken by internet friends at a meet-up and were quite unflattering. I later found that a relative who was cyberstalking me while not speaking to me had those photos bookmarked. This was a creepy experience.

There are photos of me out there. Some are not hideous. But I make zero effort to look conventionally attractive. One photo of me online is of me with a shaved head. I am prone to posting photos that are intended to tell people stalking me "Hey, stupid. I am old and ugly and you can stop fantasizing about me."

It hasn't stopped men from hitting on me. But it has been a few years since a total stranger who knew nothing about me other than what I look like has written me to let me know what a pig he is in glorious detail.

I intentionally kept a fairly low profile online for some time. Nonetheless, my super low levels of internet fame still fostered all kinds of weird interest from people who are not healthy and absolutely did not have my best interest at heart. If I had more fame, I would probably be super paranoid controlling. People do all kinds of bizarre things and photos are an excellent way to fuel the weirdness. It makes people feel like they know you, have a personal connection yadda.

I have worked really hard at figuring out how to open my mouth in public and feel reasonably safe doing so. Being penurious with the pics has been an important part of that process. People are quick to objectify people based on a photo. You stop being a real person in their mind and become a symbol of something. It may be a symbol they lust after. It may be a symbol they hate. It may be any number of things. But they will forget you are a real person. They seem to be much less quick to do that based on written comments.
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What does he do with the logs of all the passwords submitted in searches?
You don't, not yet anyways. But if that 100w bulb is on 3-hours per day and you want a 1-year ROI, your replacement budget is probably in the $8-12 range.
I believe some fixtures solve this by having two sets of LEDs; as you dim down the standard LEDs, the low-level LEDs kick in.

I've seen that in a few theatrical/architectural lights, no idea if it's available in the consumer market yet.
Did this happen to be inspired by the Extra Credits episodes about gamifying education? It's almost exactly that.

Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuDLw1zIc94

Addendum - I thought it was a really cool idea, and you made it look amazing! Well done!
And another compliance industry is born.
This is what I've been working on for the past few months. I've been writing a lot of spaghetti code in the past and come back to find how poorly I organized it. I'm suppressing the urge to immediately write code, but rather, look at the big picture first, digesting the information, even if it means prolonging writing anything for a day or several hours.

I usually write pseudocode first before doing anything now. Either on paper, as code comments, or as a list. Sometimes I find myself writing tests on paper as well, it helps out a lot too. A programming language is just a means to an end, what they all have in common is a set of logic to follow.

Then I debug. I just fork the code, comment things out, add a little bit of functionality, etc. When I have a grasp on it write some TDD

I find the easiest codebase that I refer a lot is the todomvc, or any similar ones that have different implementations (differnet languages) for the same general solution. All the core logic between languages is mostly the same, so its easy to dig through and understand a different programming language / how its generally organized.

One thing I remember learning about from experience polyglot programmers. Its extremely helpful to have an existing codebase you've written (such as todoMVC), and using that same example / porting it over in a different language to learn that languages nuances.