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> Indeed, fair concern: Will making these LEGOs differently cause this to be less so? Will becoming "sustainable" degrade the lifetime of LEGO collections over time?

> The new sustainable LEGO elements are made from polyethylene, which is a soft, durable and flexible plastic, and while they are based on sugar-cane material, they are technically identical to those produced using conventional plastic. The elements have been tested to ensure the plant-based plastic meets the high standards for quality and safety that the LEGO Group has, and consumers expect from LEGO products.

Note that this is being deployed only for "botanical elements" (bushes, trees, …) currently.
As an apartment owner in Manhattan, I find one part of the study surprising. Most Co-ops and Condos (two types of apartment financial structuring that is common in NYC), explicitly ban AirBnB rental. The apartment I own, in a fancy part of the city (Upper East Side), penalises the owner $350 for first infraction, and the fines escalate for each subsequent infraction. Most Co-ops even prohibit non-owners living in the building (they cannot rent it out). I wonder who these people are, that are able to buy AirBnB'able apartments.

I just searched Streeteasy.com, a popular NYC real estate listing site for Airbnb and I was not able find any listings (Query: https://streeteasy.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=airbnb&c...).

I also looked at the data-source in the Citylab article (Airdna.com) and I see that I would earn 10% more by Airbnb'ing my apartment than finding a tenant. For me this 10% is not worth optimising for, considering the tenants go through a credit evaluation process, I don't risk any vacancy and I do not have to change the sheets every other week.
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>However, SF will more than likely be a better place for career growth and opportunity. You shouldn't undervalue that, especially at the beginning of your career.

Unless you plan to spend your entire career there having your the vast majority professional network is a bad thing because it means it's much harder to cut and run. If you don't cut and run you wind up with a wife, kids, a stupidly overpriced house in the suburbs, etc.
You'd pay lots of money to get immediate high-level support ... investors will love it!
Win-win for Lego, their parts don't last as long and its great for public image. Legos ending up in landfills isn't a real problem.
In my experience, the organization is well aware how much they need to switch away from Oracle. They're reminded every billing period. By then it's just no small feat.

Look at Amazon, aggressively trying to move away from Oracle yet still far away.
Well, Linus and other groups make such good software that companies pay them to make it directly or otherwise; other people release code for showing their own portfolio like an artist, to prove their skills; others do it so people on the Internet can help improve the code. And finally, none of this matters, because that rule applies to organizations making money (or trying to). Jane Hobbyist writing device drivers for the love of the job isn't a part of the saying.
Why do users get the option to skip payment and remove the watermark for free? Stop doing that.
"Please give your friends or family a hug for me. We never know how much time we have with someone, and sometimes it’s all too short."

This is a wake up call for all of us. Thanks for your positive impact. That is the real value you get from the Internet people. All my thoughts and condolences for you and your family.
I find this one especially egregious because Jepsen looks a lot like Jeppesen the aerospace products company. They mostly do charts and stuff though so I was pretty confused that they were mentioned alongside the term 'aerospike'
How does this change the threat model for using keybase? It would seem to increase the target value of compromising the client. Is that immediate impression wrong?
Yeah but, certs are not necessary for the oculus rift to function.
"Blockchain" is a data structure, a pretty well defined one. The buzzword is basically a synonym for "distributed (, decentralized?) system." Buzzwords arr usually annoying and misused. Object-Oriented Programming as practiced isn't really what was intended by the term. Memes with cat pictures are only vaguely a subset of Dawkins' memes. "The Cloud," ugh, let's not even.
Agreed. Having worked at a dating app that had a significantly smaller user base, the revenue numbers are definitely low balled.
The idea that housing always goes up in price is nonsense so you’d be right to be skeptical of “get in now” urges. If anybody said that about stocks they’d go to jail but for some reason we don’t regulate marketing if housing-as-security the way we regulate actual securities.

The only reason housing prices are skyrocketing is because we’ve built a protective legal regime around incumbent land owners. The market can’t function so the price goes up. Just as an example I’d be very pleased to build a small stack of flats on my Oakland property, say four units, but the law doesn’t permit that. On my block there’s a 1938 building with 22 apartments on the same sized lot as mine. So we used to allow it, and clearly it’s within the character of the neighborhood, to borrow a phrase from the NIMBYs, but we’ve just outlawed that kind of building.

As soon as the regulatory environment gets fixed, supply is going to explode and prices will fall.
But that's the only practical thing it could be. Suppose you shoot yourself in the head. What's the doctor supposed to put down as the cause of death? All he knows is that a bullet destroyed part of your brain. He doesn't know if you were depressed. Hell, he doesn't even know if it was intentional. Was it the girlfriend that left you last month, or that promotion you thought you were going to get that went to someone else?

What do you put down for a drug overdose? Was he chasing the next good time or escaping the pain of being molested as a child?
There's nothing wrong with reverting a recommendation. Sounds like you have a great explanation for why you would revert your own recommendation, as well. Just like every other startup in the world, Keybase doesn't "owe" anything to you and might make business decisions that affect your own.
I live in the area as well and I think the reality is that Seattle is going through a massive change due to densification.

Nobody expects to be able to buy a single family house in NYC- and that will probably soon be the case for cities like Seattle and SF...however this is a relatively recent development for us and therefor a much harder pill to swallow.

I came from the midwest (born and raised) - to respond to the other commenter...home ownership is cool, but I like it out here a lot more. Also, I make WAY more money here. Like 50% more, and I'm at the bottom of the engineer food chain. I make more money than any of my more experienced senior engineer friends back in the midwest. The amount of outdoorsy opportunities, interesting companies to work for, and boom/bust culture is just too exciting. Midwestern cities also experience a lot more violent crime (check out any top 10 list of dangerous cities). I think I heard gunshots almost every night that I lived in Kansas City, MO.
thanks will do, and just temporarily upgraded to a better dyno on Heroku... I was on their small Hobby things, mostly good for side projects and it crashed!
> It sounds like you're not from the UK so maybe all this is an alien concept.

You are right that I am not from the UK, so perhaps things are different (lots of room for local exceptions, as detailed in previous comments), but where I am from people compare the cost of a home against the cost of other homes, including the cost of buying vacant land and building a new home. The value of the land is implicitly considered because they see the actual value of land when looking at vacant lots and weigh their options.

Wear isn't the only consideration. An old home with low-amperage electricity service and nob and tube wiring that could burn down your home at any minute is less valuable than a home that is up to modern building standards. An old home with virtually no insulation is less valuable than a modern home that is airtight. These older features are more expensive to live with (higher insurance costs, higher energy costs, etc.) and the price has to reflect that. Same reason why a pristine car from the 80s is, in most cases (unless it has special collector value), still going to be worth less than a brand new model of equal original value in constant dollars.

To put it another way, I live in a rural area. The value of my property would be worth almost ten times more if the identical house was situated on land in the nearest major city. The value is the land and where that land is located, not the structure. The structure itself is, in this hypothetical example, identical. If we tore down the houses in both spots, the vacant lot in the major city would still be worth almost ten times more than my now-vacant lot. Houses can be moved – location is the value.

> As I already said earlier, property here, if lived in and sensibly maintained, isn't considered something that "wears out" like a car body.

Even on the timescale of centuries? I don't see many century homes that haven't required major and costly updates to be still usable today. I don't think anyone is suggesting that houses deprecate as quickly as cars.

There are exceptions. Price, of course, is still bound by supply and demand. There are reasons why used home structures may become scarce, while new homes are impossible to build, forcing people to compete for used homes. But this is not exactly typical.
A malicious vehicle can block “smart” intersections in the USA
Is it hard at all to exit vim-db?
Yeah it's really weird to me because while you can do cool things with blockchains, on their own they're just a data structure. Without a trustless, decentralized, and permissionless consensus model it's basically just a big git repo. The blockcahin data structure, a tree of blocks of state changes, is not at all a recent innovation. And not something that would typically get hyped by the average non-programming related media.
To me, the fact that people seem to keep doing this suggests that these tools aren't all that great.
We are in a branching simulation. It is lazily loaded and immutable. For undetermined variables, copy on read causes a branch filled in with each possible result. So many-worlds, but within a simulation.
It's quite possible I was trying to take a picture of the plane taking off, so that might make that aspect less of a coincidence.
Mmhmm. Tax money goes to helping the poor and homeless too. That's more money that you could spend on housing.
Congrats on shipping! One suggestion: I'd make the URLs prettier e.g: /companies/<id>/stripe/bmodels, /companies/<id>/stripe/submodels/1, /companies/<id>/stripe/submodels/2, etc.

That way I can delete the last part of a URL a return to the /companies/<id>/stripe/ home page. It's also easier to know what the URLs are about before opening them.
Why does this require an account other than robinhood?
Well, at least less meaningless than the widely used word "Economy" representing our financial system of waste, where consumers have to keep buying stuff to keep the system intact.
I did this 3 years ago.

I created a bot that would scan for private SSH keys to connect to AWS and other services, it also warned about leaked software licenses for SublimeText and other popular programs at the time. While many people appreciated the initiative, it was not taken the best way by others. Ultimately, GitHub suspended my account and I had to explain what was all about.

One year later, through my employer, I created another bot to scan for security vulnerabilities in projects written in Ruby, Python, PHP and Node.js; this time I already knew that I would need to contact GitHub beforehand to make sure what were the limits of the "automation". They simply stated that — at the time — no automation was allowed, which was quite surprising because CI is automation. Travis and other services are allowed to do things there so I didn't understand why my bot was different.

I reported to my employer that we would need to shutdown that project and move on to something different. One year later, I find that GitHub implemented a (semi) vulnerability scanner for a selected group of programming languages, warning the repository owners about problems with their software dependencies. I cannot be mad about this, it's their service, but it still made me a bit angry.
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It still won't store the cvc, and plenty of sites do weird idiosyncratic labels on their forms that break the autocomplete.
There comes a point where the system (Seattle) can't support additional traffic (immigrants) without expanding. Expanding pushes out people lower on the ladder, which is often people you could consider locals, which often changes the underlying chemistry and vibe of the city.

I grew up in Oregon and most of my friends and family have a general disinterest in people moving to the state, especially from California. A neighboring town, often regarded as one of the better towns in the area, has seen drastic immigration (mostly from California) in the past 50 years. On the surface, you might not see much damage, and in fact you might see only improvements. But when you look at the side effects, such as multi-generational families getting kicked out due to excessively high taxes brought by wealthy Californians, and general road traffic increasing in speed beyond what locals want (Oregon doesn't have any speed limits above 65mph, AFAICR), you see another story.

Immigration is great when it works out for you, and not so great when it doesn't.
I'm totally happy living in the Sacramento area and I own two properties on sacramento-software-engineer pay. The downside is certainly less money and definitely way less opportunities if I was looking, but upside is much less traffic and being closer to outdoor recreation. And of course owning whatever type house I want within reason.
Clumsily putting cryptocurrency features in their app will look bad, I agree. Hopefully it won't be "jammed in" and in-your-face: just another feature among many (besides, doesn't it make sense to manage your keys for things, including cryptocurrencies or any other application, on something called keybase?)

But I think for the average platform, taking money from cryptocurrency foundations is a lot better than taking VC money. This was seen recently with the Matrix funding by Status token. Cryptocurrency goals usually need the platform to be open: just having a big integration with your token or cryptocurrency system can be a massive boost to your ecosystem. On the other hand, VC goals eventually require the platform to be closed off to milk all their users with actual "monetization plays" like Slack has recently done.
Slack is one company.

It's closer to Slack is like DALnet.

That said, this is a money grubbing exercise that isn't justified by any technical means.
Yes I've done that manually. In my head I would love for it to be something even more collaborative 'Wikipedia-style' and people would help keep the numbers up to date. Of course that could only work for popular companies if there is enough interest about their business.

For smaller businesses it could be cool to have templates like "pizzeria business plan" that people could "fork" and input their own numbers. Perhaps reuse some variables across the board such as "cost of tomatoes" instead of everyone doing their thing separately on Excel.
Neural Network describes a class of algorithms. It's often misused in marketing (buzzword), but there is an engineering definition used by people that practice machine learning.

A perceptron, the basic unit in a neural network, has one or more inputs, an algorithm for processing the input, and one or more outputs. Layers of perceptron are often used so that the original input gets transformed over each layer. The most common output for a neural network is a classification. The major variants of neural networks are ways a perceptron's algorithms change, the types of algorithms inside a perceptron, the number of layers and the number of inputs/outputs. Neural Networks are computationally heavy to train, but not computationally heavy to use once created. They are specifically good for working with image data.

http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-10-neural-networks/
I think gp's definition is still too broad. Consensus is not an inherent property of blockchains, for example. You can make blockchains without any consensus at all, or with some central authority prescribing reality. A blockchain is simply a kind of data structure, like a linked list or a hash map or an array.
Brain networks and neural networks are not similar in structure or function, other than the superficial abstraction of “nodes and connections” (graphs).

They’re about as related as genetic algorithms are to actual genetics.
Your service does not actually seem to be able to monitor this kind of certificate, IMHO moving this from "shameless" to "spam".
I notice that there is a lot of conflict these days about what should be called 'racism' or 'sexism' and a lot of it stems from words with overloaded meanings. People actually come to blows over this.
Here's a fun experiment idea. When you are around friends and the Wii U, only talk about games that came out at Wii U launch, ideally one you don't have. Like, FIFA Soccer 13 or something. Don't ever search for that game or talk about it away from the Wii U. After a week or so of that, see if you get an ad for it.

"We were talking about new games and I got and ad for a new game!" sounds like pretty standard, non-targeted advertising. Easily chalked up to coincidence. Steam advertises new games to me, some I'm interested in and some I'm not, but I don't think Steam is reading my brainwaves.
That's a short article, and it describes "actual falls" already in progress. It claims that last year the net outflow for SF was 2,332 down from net inflow of comparable absolute value only five years ago.
Yeah, the trick in my opinion is to find a good enough book or guide on new features with which you can skim and familiarize yourself. If you don't understand when you might apply something, go figure that part out. Then work on a project and when it seems like you might need that concept, go read about it in more detail. In terms of real world work, having a very broad, surface level knowledge of many concepts and when you might apply them often comes in more useful than a very in depth knowledge of a few specific concepts.
A day off is nice, but doesn't mean that much in the scheme of things.

I would like to see more companies write a Thank You letter from the CEO, signed by his managers. Something that he could use during his performance evaluations at the company, or attach to his resume for any other jobs.

It's hard to get concrete evidence like that, which shows your value to the company. It would great to have documentation that could never be forgotten.
I saved up my allowance to buy a real keyboard kit and a 48K upgrade kit for my 400. It was quite the computer after that, until they came out with the 800XL with 64K and an excellent keyboard, and I got that.
Content
- I was expecting to see some more on the site itself. YouTube embeds from the techniques section, an overview of why you selected each item for the equipment section, and an explanation as to the versatility of the ingredients listed.

Content may give you access to the Amazon Associates programme to earn a cut on purchases - think that's the most obvious one.

Then, once you have content to hang adverts off of, I'd do some sponsored placements (e.g. reach out to some cooking Kickstarters, artisan producers, etc...).

Ask food influencers to recommend their tools - give them featured promos to boost their ego and they'll link through. This will give you influence, which you can use to secure brand deals etc...

Meal kits are getting huge, so this seems like an obvious affiliate stream (don't know if Blue Apron offers a scheme or not, or something similar), as you're providing the rest of the stuff they don't.

Make me want to register, recipes are all well and good, but I can Google 500,000 of them in 3s - what's your curation like, why'd I want to subscribe. Are you going to do cook alongs, get me to submit pictures of the recipe along with the subscribers and we share tips?

Could offer a paid Q&A so people can ask like things you can make with X, or Y?

I'd also recommend imagery. Food is sensory, I like minimalism, but that site could be about anything, check out: https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/
You can’t just add homes and not worry about traffic. That only exacerbates commute issues which is one of the reasons why houses so far away from business centers get so expensive, because houses even further have exponentially worse commutes.

Public transportation needs to be fixed first so that people from east bay and beyond can get to the Silicon Valley and SF faster.

If I could live in Tracy and get to SF in 30 mins or even 45 mins, I would move there in a heartbeat. But it takes 1.5-2hrs even with BART.

That will do more to lower house prices than cramming a small number of houses or condos in an already crowded area.
That is not how Shor's algorithm works. To factor a number N, Shor's algorithm uses a classical computer to pick a random number a where a < N. A quantum computer is used to find the period of f(x) = a^x mod N. This Wikipedia entry [0] provides a good overview.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm#Classical_p...
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In the current theory, photons do not have a frame of reference.

"The spooky action at distance" is a media term. In quantum physics it is indeed a "single state".

I fail to see why Odin, or any other god you could have meant would "see" Universe's events any differently from physics. Physics by definition is seeking the full description of the Universe. What we argue here is how to interpret that, but that is mostly needed for people, who are too lazy to grok actual equations as they are.
Is there a variable in particular you think is too low ? I've taken the number of subscribers (3M) from Match Group report. But I've taken the assumption that there's high churn and they don't all pay for 12 months. Let me know what you think, it can be updated :)
also a very good point!

I just wouldn't be shocked if it was a coincidence as well, or something else driving it.

For example, the company mentioned in the OP could be something mentioned in the news recently or in a hot market position right now.

In which case, it's not bizarre that you might see ads for them on FB as well.
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My god, 1.5 hours :(

My current commute to work, from utc to la jolla, is 4 minutes.
I'm sorry, maybe I misspoke--is there something in my post that suggests that they can't do it? I'm saying that them doing it sucks, and explaining why. And, yes, of course I can change my recommendation--what would make you think that I'm not aware of that?
I don’t understand this comment. It doesn’t seem to address any of the key technical points behind the Stellar project as it is actively used today, but instead tries to imply that the foundation is some group of fly-by-night scammers that have won over keybase by nothing more than a twinkle in their eye.

My impression was that Lumens seemed to be solving one of the legitimate problems of the world—the inefficiency of the SWIFT system for cross-border transactions—and appears to have a viable model for doing so.

I don’t see how whether or not it’s centralized makes it a swindle?
Feedback: consider ditching the .00 on the numbers and spelling out "million"/"billion." It's a lot easier to quickly read "$36.2 million" than "$36,200,000.00"
There is no reference frame where the photon is stationary: this is directly axiomatic, because we take the speed of light to be equal and nonzero in all reference frames.