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There’s a dude who dances on the corner by my bus stop because he likes it. No shortage of buskers either. The bar up the street does rope dancing on I think Tuesday night.

I’m not sure how to reconcile “all the artists are leaving” with “gentrifiers like art” and the presence of many forms of art all over the place. Which is it? Are artists not supposed to sell art? I really don’t get it.

Grunge didn’t really start here, it just blew up here. It’s more of a Pacific Northwest thing than a Seattle thing. If you ever come visit check out the Nirvana exhibit at MoPop (previously EMP), it does a great job explaining the evolution of grunge.

There are several local bands who are doing well on the national stage. The biggest is Macklemore although he’s not really my style.

The music scene in Seattle seems healthy to me, you can get a variety of shows any night of the week. The metal scene is supposed to be big but not my deal so I don’t know a lot about it.

I was at a backyard/underground wrestling show (hosted by a local band) last summer where the heel taunted the audience by telling them they’re a bunch of people who moved here 8 years ago and are mad at the people who moved here 5 years ago.

From where I sit Seattle has a multitude of healthy subcultures. It’s just fashionable to complain.
Animal agriculture is the single biggest contributor to climate change.[0]

It seems to me that you are the one trying to diminish what the OP was trying to say by calling them a "contrarian" and describing it as the "tiniest detail".

[0]http://www.animalagricultureclimatechange.org/animal-agricul...
alright. got it
I honestly think that a more modern version of "intentional communities" would really appeal to a lot of people. Cheap housing, walk able everything including grocery stores, a couple locally owned industries or two, and the support people to support them - it literally sounds like the dream to me. Suburbs are exclusion zones, and cities are so incredibly expensive and chaotic.

I'm sure there's 1000 economic and social reasons they can't be done, but damn if it doesn't sound good.
You're talking about Android not being secure because it uses proprietary blobs, but saying that iphones are secure because both the hardware and software is proprietary?

Apple's reality distortion field in full effect...

Neither Android nor iPhone can be considered secure.
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I'll step out here on a limb and say that animals that have been raised for purposes other than leather contribute to climate change.
Isn't anything bad by definition when "too many" people do it?
An AI doesn't need to be upset at humans (or even have emotions as we know them) to be dangerous - it just needs to be powerful and to not care about us as much as we care about ourselves. Humans weren't angry at Dodos.
Don't give your four year old an iPad then.
On the flipside, kids can add immense motivation and drive. Also you can dictate your schedule more to spend more time with kids/family if you work from home more. I went independent/entrepreneur full on when my son was starting high school, I wish I had done it earlier and done more projects/products for myself earlier.
1) you are making assumptions. I never indicated that it diminished their (impressive) achievement. Only that they have more to do to actually be 100% renewable.

2) I i was only at the top because my comment was brand new when you opened the thread.

3) it’s not a tiny detail. Animal agriculture is worse than the entire transportation industry combined.

4) even if I am being a contrarian, it is better than sarcasm and logical fallacies.
From what I remember, the upper limit is five years, but most "missions" are limited to three years because justifying so much time becomes complicated for companies. But legally, missions should be very specific, short, with SSII-provided material, and no imposed office hours... so far, haven't seen a single IT/CS consultant used as required by law.
Depends how you look at it. You are an employee in the media space, I guess you're in an ok situation but also not swimming in cash. However I thought more in the line of media companies and solopreneurs.

Everybody seems to be joining the race to the bottom by delivering more questionable content for 2 more clicks per day instead of relevant articles and real journalism.
Also not to step on anyones toes, this obviously doesn't apply to every individual, however a large majority seems to be doing it. This also makes it hard for the good guys to prevail I guess.
Oh lovely. I've been trying to figure out how to address this in the context of GPU shaders and here comes the perfect paper!
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> 'young college drop out makes billions'

> 'middle aged, well educated person with good savings makes billions'.

Do we know if anyone has A/B test these two headlines?

Finding fault with middle-aged-well-educated-person-with-good-savings*, who became a billionaire in under 10 years, shouldn't be too hard for the media, and therefore plenty of things to whip up a scandal about.
This really reads like someone who's never tried an electric bike, there's simply no way that is "missing the mark".
Wow! And I just realized there seems to be another loophole: that means (say) a company like Apple could start a separate power company in Norway based on hydro power, have that company completely waste 100% of the energy it produce there, and yet "buy" the equivalent REC in another jurisdiction where they run on coal and suddenly get to 100% "green" power... potentially even making more money in tax credits, if there are any, all while consuming more and more dirty power without actually helping anybody shift to renewable energy. Right?
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There has to be some limit to how low they can go cost wise in delivering crap. Also as it becomes harder to get big bucks, people will shift to other lines of crap work.

GDPR in my mind influences this indirectly in the long run. It's not like it will kill fake news the week after.
Mainly, the concept of subtractive mixing.

Paint (or pigment) works by absorbing a portion of the visible spectrum and reflecting the rest. What you see is what is reflected. When you mix pigments, both portions of the spectrum are absorbed, and a smaller resultant portion is reflected.

We mostly think of color in terms of light, and mixing colors of light which is often the opposite (light: "all colors mixed is white" as opposed to paint: "all paints mixed is black"). Our game uses paint as the underlying physics concept rather than light.

Adding cyan to magenta gives blue when you're talking about pigments. Even in the case a player understood the theory of light and pigments, when playing a game you need to reflexively tap your intuition to understand what happens when a change is affected: "When I add/remove X color to Y what do I get?" Additionally, players weren't used to CMY as the primaries and always thought in terms of RGB.

Because our game is a real-time (racing-based) puzzle game,
we had to do many iterations on our game UI to help players answer this question much faster while also navigating the level.

From our game design standpoint, this was the major intuition gap we encountered.
Slight tangent:

"Nobody, from the lowliest spammer to the grand exulted CEO of a massive company, can remove or change the content of an email message they have sent to you."

Unless the message has embedded images linked from the web. Those images are part of the 'content of an email' as far as most people are concerned, but aren't part of the message envelope. So they can be destroyed or replaced by the sender whenever they want.

Do any mail clients aim to deal with this by keeping a permanent copy? (Including the 1x1 tracking pixel content?)
And this opens up the question of how easy it is to re-target exiting hardware to new techniques.

For example, if I understand the Chroma-from-Luma prediction; then the maths involved is just 2-d linear regression (once for U vs. L once for V vs L.). That's a pretty generic task. Even when with the domain-specialisation that it is done over pixels in an encoding block, we are still talking about concepts common to all codecs.

So maybe there existing acceleration hardware can already do it. But even if it can, the require primitive needs to be exposed to software if new protocols are to benefit from it. So my question (and maybe Boxxed's too) is whether the hardware interface is low-level enough for such adaptability.
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Very interesting. That means my first comment makes sense.

Because it would mean economic/everyday demand is very inelastic with respect to price. If I want world peace, a mansion in the hamptons, my own tropical island, that want will remain the same pretty much the same from day to day.

I have to do some reading....
Congrats, you're a pretty rare user. You don't have to google for very long to discover a large number of people complaining about forced Windows 10 updates. The equivalent situation for OS X is that almost everyone updates.

This is especially visible on phones. Twice I've had a 4 year iPhone, twice it ran the latest software. There are very few Android phones for which this is true.
> Paying down my mortgage is just a bit more expensive than renting my apartment was.

Unless you already have a substantial nest egg or took out an expensive mortgage, your life savings were substantially reduced by the down payment. In addition to a more expensive monthly payment there are property taxes, maintenance costs ($ and time), HOA fees, and other burdens depending on your region and property type.
In California, that's not the case. As long as it's not a competitor or in a similar space the company should have no claim to your business or ideas generated while not using the companies resources.
WebM is based on MKV, and it's been in browsers since 2010.

I've used MKV for lots of things, such as video production work, remuxing digital TV stream grabs so normal programs can play them, etc. It's the most reliable container format, from my point of view.
File extensions are still essentially irrelevant.

I'm pretty tech savvy and I haven't downloaded a video file to my computer from the internet in years.
Hi there, 26y/o here.
Firstly, as advice for 21 guy, try a lot of things just like you are doing right now, to be honest it is unlikely you have a clear vision of you future career at this young age.

You haven't stated how much deep learning skill you have right now. Or you want to do research or try to be good at implementing stuff. I could be biased but I would suggest unrevealing your motivation and interest more before deciding next step. (Machine learning was really really hyped here in Japan, every student remotely related to CS like mechanical engineering studied deep learning and wanted to work on it. It was honestly over-hyped.)Not saying it is not important.

I can't say anything about Germany since I don't live there.
As for Japan, there are several start-ups hiring machine-learning talent, I have seen Germans here as well. But you still need a college degree in most cases.

Good luck, if you like new technology try block-chain as well.
Only 6 weeks to find a boy amongst 7.6 Billion humans with pictures taken 30 years ago. The power of the Internet is indeed humbling.
How does prop 13 cause a housing crisis?

It certainly entices people to hold and rent properties they own rather than sell, but those units are still part of the housing stock.

I think repealing prop 13 for commercial properties makes sense as a way to raise tax revenue, but don’t see doing so for residential property having an impact on housing costs.
Ah, I don’t mind the new housing developments, what does become frustrating is having to deal with all the traffic generated by the kids going to school in the morning. Are there alternatives to mandatory school buses, any research into this?
That is the plan for Caltrain, yes. Ending shuttles is not the way to get there. Electrification of Caltrain and relaxing zoning restrictions near Caltrain stations, plus keeping shuttles, is the way to get there.
Did you catch the part where the city council member that wanted to bail out Pronto was an investor in Pronto? Fun times.
Regarding units: power plant outputs are given in power units (e.g. watt, or megawatt, horsepower, etc.) because these are innately normalised to some unit of time (watt is a Joule per second). If you stated an output of 1 MWh, I would immediately ask "how long did it take to produce that?". I tiny solar cell that powers your calculator could generate 1 MWh eventually, but the problem is that it would take a very long time, so stating its output in power units gives you a better idea of its capability.

Fun fact: some horses are capable of about 10 horsepower.
There isn’t really a video hosting site that doesnt do a lossy transcode of all uploads, unless you count Dropbox.

The bitrate used to encode real-time captures is generally two or more times greater than the bitrate you want to distribute.
Oh yes, I understood that. I still can't believe they're so rare that you can talk about the "most recent" one. And how would jimnotgym know? Most puzzling.
NSA Information Assurance Division site has the same issue – http://www.iad.gov/
every day I come on here and read about these groups of people who are smarter than me doing cooler things than I will ever get to do and I just want to give up.
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There's also interesting pieces like sections not in try/except have reduced checking for out-of-bounds and type mismatch. I don't grok it yet, mostly because I've had no need to use that flavor of Python. But in some ways it's providing flexibility instead of constraints. Flexibility for the interpreter, not necessarily the programmer.
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> it's a miracle that with the tools we have we are able to write any network applications at all

Perhaps it is time to start using a higher-level language? One with a runtime that provides green threads?
You have to work for companies where capital accumulates quickly and then find a way to sandwich yourself between where the capital is and where the capital wants to go.

Follow capital and consumers will follow you.
> Do you think it's meaningfully different when the discussion is under active attack by bad actors?

I defend my positions instead of attacking people based on largely unproveable accusations. Sure, there really are a lot of bots/shills/etc. but the times you get that wrong hurt people and turn them away.

> How do you moderate to keep genuine propaganda techniques from successfully working on your discussion without calling them out?

By defeating the argument instead of the person. The shill type never engages in real conversation, anyhow, in general. They're like pellicans--fly in, crap over things, fly out.

> So what are the techniques moderators and good-faith participants can apply, in your experience?

Smaller communities where you can actually recognize posters over time. Being able to give elevator pitch style summaries of points I want to make without having to resort to copypasta of 800 links the other person will never actually read and maybe brief FAQs if something just comes up too often.

But another part of it is to try to engage the other person, to converse with them. I'm not just here to say "accept everything I tell you or leave the forum!" but I'll actually engage with and try to understand the other person's point. I'm not perfect, there are things I can learn.

I have a friend who is dyslexic, but loves to argue. A lot of people treat him like he's some idiot troll even though he's highly educated because he can't spell to save his life. He has interesting ideas that are worthy of thought and constant frustration communicating them.

These days people are like "you're a troll!" and won't even talk any more. But sometimes the conversations that go off the rails actually venture into interesting territory.

But maybe I'm just weird because I can type really fast and compose something like this post in just a few minutes. I do think that might help a bit too, because I can rattle off words on the keyboard just about as fast as I can talk so it's not so bad to explain something for the 27th time in an hour.

Anyhow, thank you for listening.
I'm working on a brainstorming/idea generation site as a side-project. No idea if people would want this.

Which lead me to down the path of wondering if there are any idea pitching sites. In the meanwhile, I just created a subreddit(/r/ideaspitch) which could serve that function for the time being, just so that I can relax and focus on my original idea again...

So yes, brainstorming/idea generating tool.
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There have been others saying don't quit your day job and to do it on the side. I agree. It may be more stressful and you might lose a bit of sleep but it is far preferable to racing against the emptying of your bank account. I've done it twice and each time I've failed. However each time I've gotten a tech job in about a month and a half's time after trying to get back to 9-5. But the stress and occasional bouts of depression are not worth it especially considering when you keep your day job you'll have more money to pump into your ideas. The golden handcuffs you're trying to escape from are actually what will enable you to be successful in that escape.

I heavily urge you to stay in your job and make sure that your company is profitable and has a very good chance at sustainable growth before you quit your day job.

Good luck either way.
The quote above describe part time vs full, which incidentally is also what the pay gap compare in the article. If we exclude unemployment, part time and overtime then we don't get a pay gap between spouses and the 10-year baby window is irrelevant for discussion. It all falls on comparing the total income of one individual to that of an other, from the range of nil to n, and attribute the pattern to a social concept.

One do not have to believe that the breadwinner model exist as a gender role, or that the pay gap exist, but then discussing them together becomes moot. There is no study to show that spouses which have the same education, same experience, same job, put in the same number of hours with the same responsibilities have different pay. No such apple to apple comparison exist.
> ...so stating its output in power units gives you a better idea of its capability.

I think you misunderstood, because that was entirely my point—I was saying I don't get why they talk about MWh rather than MW when it makes more sense to talk about power rather than energy. [1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/11/9/9696820/renewable-energy-certi...
One way: it discourages people from moving to a downsized home when that's appropriate.
Tesla Model S/X don't have any cooling for the electric motor, because it's not needed for street driving. That's a significant issue for track driving, but not for drag racing.
"Though the 100% figure covers only Apple’s own operations–not those of of the suppliers and contract manufacturers which do much of the work of bringing its ideas to life–it’s also convinced 23 companies in its supply chain to sign a pledge to get to 100% renewable energy for the portion of their business relating to Apple products.
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They're doing a massively good thing here. I'm a bit more glad now for choosing Apple.
This is the plot of The Humanoids, by Jack Williamson (1947): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands

This is an excellent example of the prescience of thoughtful science fiction. If Asimov popularized robotics and the famous three laws, Williamson should be recognized and given credit for examining (or warning about?) the implications of AI seventy years ago!
You must be a Facebook employee.

GDPR also relates to the consent of having personal data. Facebook is well known for using fishnet trawler techniques to gather whatever personal data they can with little regard for consent. Wouldn't be surprised if everything is passed on to Palantir anyway.

The fact that several aspects of their business model will have to change to accommodate GDPR should be telling.
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There is a substantial difference between fees and taxes. Fees are tied to something specific. This has two implications: First, they cannot be used for something else. Second: The height of the fee must not exceed the cost of the service and thus is at least in principle something that can be checked. For example, some public health insurance providers in germany had excess money and they had to refund that to their customers. Taxes are under no such regime. It may seem like one is like the other, but it’s really an important distinction.
> How does prop 13 cause a housing crisis?

Because it heavily discourages people from selling their houses, reducing turnover and with it the potential for redevelopment.

Without prop 13, houses would be re-assessed every few years. The owners' taxes would increase (or decrease) as the value of their home changed. If property values increased enough, the taxes would encourage them to sell the property for a tidy sum and move someplace cheaper. A new buyer is much more likely to demolish and redevelop than the existing owner.
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It's easy to have high percentage growth when you start from relatively small magnitudes. When I moved to Seattle from the East coast, I was surprised with how cheap everything was given all the complaints I'd heard.

Seattle is catching up with the other big cities, but it's still lower cost. Especially given how new the buildings are.
Iirc thelimit is two years. Where I work some consultant workers did more than that in the same position, sued and were obliged to be hired by the client as they were considered already de facto employees.
Go one better, waste your 'green' energy on crytocurrency mining to buy more 'green' energy for cryptocurrency mining to buy more ...
Yes in theory, but noone would like to just waste energy like that. If they instead sold it they would not be allowed to sell it as green energy.

I think the important point here is to make sure the energy you buy is certified green (or whatever the proper term is, in Sweden we call it urspungsmärkt) the way Apple does. If everyone did there would be no demand for coal power any more.
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Yeah, about that Atlas V failure that's recorded as a success? I guess Tesla/SpaceX is at fault for that, too.

Those 2 Soyuz launches that I edited on Wikipedia from success to failures, that must be Tesla/SpaceX's fault, too.
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Let's say that your town is considering whether to preserve a zoning policy of all single family homes with a large minimum lot size, or is looking to allow density. What would prevent you from supporting the lower-density option?

One reason may be that you are concerned that restricting the development of land would drive scarcity, leading land values to rise (which would cause your property tax to rise). You're effectively forced to pay for the cost of rising land prices.

...Now, if you are sheltered from rising land values, as per Prop 13, you now suffer no repercussions from a downzoning, and in fact may be completely indifferent to how the land market is behaving. Many homeowners are now free to act in their own best interest (which means downzoning), instead of being incentivized to create capacity for more housing.