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I hate it when there are only air dryers in a restroom. Towels can dry anything. Dryers are special built for hands. (sometimes i like to wash my face)

also, the level of noise pollution they create is toxic. Especially the high end/high speed ones.
It is not part of the employee benefits because it doesn't exist. Can I take 2 months off in a row under an unlimited time-off policy? No. Why? Because I would "disrupt" a project or a team. Can I take all my Friday's off? Nope... work weeks should be 5 days not 4. That's what unlimited holiday means to me. So when a company says we have unlimited time-off policy I usually run away. Liars!
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I am one of the grant recipients. In my experience, there really isn't any catch to the sponsors giving away cash. It's simply to help further the ongoing research and it has been one of the easiest and fastest ways for me to get resources for my own research. Also, it has helped me connect with other grant recipients who might be able to offer advice, IF I need it.
It dries up way quicker than you might imagine. Especially, I guess it should be quicker in drier climates.
I doubt there is only one correct way to find meaning in our life and actions (though my take on it is that while paths may differ, an honest pursuit would lead to similar insights regarding the ultimate meaning). I also don't think you have an obligation to remain with a way you don't connect to. The only thing I disagree with is judging a path that doesn't resonate with your specific frequency when obviously (at least as I see it) it brings a net positive to civilization. While I'm not religious,
I can understand how on the surface things can be seen as primitive (especially when practiced at face value) while holding deeper truths underneath.

>Maybe the opposite is true? Maybe the only way to give children a fair choice is to NOT indoctrinate them with ideas they didn't choose

If only that were possible. You're going to indoctrinate them one way or the other (as you correctly concluded in the following paragraph), and since you're going to do so, the best indoctrination I can think of is personal and intellectual integrity, which might lead them to decide to go back to your roots or take a different path, both being fine if they come from the right place.
Considering that in places like Germany 5-6 weeks are pretty much standard then calling 4 weeks "unlimited" is pretty much a joke. If someone offered unlimited vacation I would probably ask what they would do if I took 8 weeks.
Oh, and actual desktop workstations (which Mac Pro would be competing against) are yet another class. I just had some fun at Dell website, and you can configure a desktop system with dual Xeon Platinum (lol) 8180 CPUs. Those have 28 cores each. The memory configuration taps out at 12x32 GB. With 384 GB of RAM and 112 HW threads, you might be able to even run Atom and Slack simultaneously.
Please don't feed the trolls.
Good point; I should have been more careful with my wording.
> Write a history of the Irish diaspora, Sweden, the Balkans, or Russia and nobody is going to call you racist.

What about generalizing "western" history? There are significant trends in history like the Enlightenment, Renaissance, early Industrial Revolution, the rise of Protestant Catholics, the collection of countries who worked together in the Crusades, etc, etc that crossed regional boundaries like England, France, Sweden, German, etc but were still very much a homogeneous definable group among a wider Western population. Whose societies were very similar and evolved on a similar and distinct trajectory.

Even extending across continents from Europe into North America and South America, where simply using countries is to ignore plenty of higher-level context and wider cultural trends.

Not to mention the mixed European heritage of early North Americans, which developed an identifiable wider culture (even if much of it was built on top of slavery). Or the fact even England was largely a mix of Celtic, Scandinavian, Roman, etc which can be distinguished by going back in history but merged into one culture over time, much like America did.

I get the flaws, risks, and hostility to lumping them all into "white" though, so I'm in agreement there. All analysis requires context and race is a very poor category to work with. Even the neo-nazis and Hitler seem to struggle to define what "white" means and invent categories like Aryans, to exclude obviously white people like Slavs.

But still the human brain largely works via patterns and lumping groups into categories, whether that's socially acceptable or not. So even if it's not ethically "right" I can still see why it's such a common phenomenon, despite being a poor categorization.

We should all be using cultures rather than race, ethnic group, OR country/geographic area.

"Albion's Seed" or "American Nations" should be required reading for anyone obsessed with race to really understand the flaws of racial categorization:

https://www.amazon.com/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-cultura...

https://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cul...

It should even be in high school history education IMO.
Ask your friends and neighbors. Did they also potty train at 18months?
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True, but the article doesn't mention a more accurate theory. It implies that the rule works better than we have theoretical reasons to expect. (But as I commented above, the article contradicts itself to some degree.)
Thanks! That's a good perspective.

I want to stay highly integrated with tech, but I realize that I want to be in a leadership position to be able to have the greatest impact. I find myself less interested in how to "build things" and more interested in "what things to build" and how to organize it all. I want to get back into the early-stage startup space, but I also see opportunity to take startup thinking and apply it to medium/large companies (ie. David and Goliath). Project management, product development, and product strategy are all areas of interest. I have a current obsession with technical design management flow tools.
Right but each step required to convert a food stamp dollar to something you arne't supposed to buy with foods stamps adds friction and inefficacy.

By handing out food stamps that can be used for X you make X the default for that thing and require user to go out of their way to use the food stamp money for something else.

If people are using food stamps to buy food to sell to a bodega at 50% value and then using that to buy beer you've effectively doubles the price of beer (or diapers) for people buying it with food stamps.

It's mind-boggling that a bunch of tech people who are well versed in the various tricks employed to get users to do things don't understand this.

It's not like anyone who's on welfare/ebt/food stamps doesn't know exactly how to convert those dollars to cash if they want to. It's just not an efficient use of those dollars compared to buying what you're expected.

Replacing all those with UBI just removed the extra steps and cost penalty for using welfare/ebt/food stamps on things you're not supposed to.
>If you do 1 just to get out of work, you're a crappy coworker

Good coworkers work so that crunch time never comes up. Crappy coworkers shame others who refuse to participate in unhealthy work/life balance.
Yeah, but now Stripe is adding in features like email invoices, presumably the ability to for customers to update payment info, etc. I don't know how much exactly has been added incrementally and how much is available in this release, but I'm optimistic that soon I will be able to phase Recurly out of our stack...If someone from Stripe wants to build a Recurly -> Stripe migration toolset, I'd love that!
What companies does this hurt? Recurly? Zuora (which recently had an IPO)? Chargify?
The truly interesting feature to me is the credit card recapture part which updates automatically cards that are re-issued.
Maya does too, all major vfx software runs primarily on Linux these days. Photoshop is another animal where the vast majority of users are in other fields on mainstream platforms.
It's elimination communication, not elimination training :) The concept, as you explain, is that the caregiver is alert to cues that a poop is coming, and moves the child to the potty.
But there is literally zero additional printing cost for using the word that precisely matches the purification process. They even have the same number of letters in English. Why would anybody do that?
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> the os would first need to unload the shared library, thus if two services need the same library you need to stop both first and start them again.

No, that's not how it works, at least on Unix systems. Shared libraries are mapped into each process's address space separately; there's no system-wide mechanism that prevents different processes from running different versions of the same library at the same time.
By what metric? You're leaving out any sense of proportion.
By looking at how terrorists fund their activities across India, this is a wise move.
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Clearly humans care a lot about neurogenesis not just because understanding whether it happens in humans would be a stepping stone to building a robust model of how cognition happens, but also because intuitively it has to do with whether we can enhance our own mental abilities in our lifetime-- one of the most fervent desires of many, I'm sure.

We've already had to write off things like growth mindset as a way to increase our fluid intelligence, it seems. It is dismaying that, based on this study, we'll have to write off things like exercise as well which we now realize only work in rats. What's left that could plausibly help? Perhaps just: building better work and study habits and simply spending more time on mental tasks. At least we're pretty sure those aren't illusory.
My 2008 is running the very latest version of High Sierra without any issues. It's a very simple hack to make it work. So you can get more life out of it easily.
Maybe the key to improving incentive is to bind the acts of participating in and supporting a decentralized service so that simply using it helps construct the network itself, i.e. every client is itself a federated server. The tradeoff is that the service has to be robust enough to support a certain percentage of clients being offline at any moment, and it certainly takes more effort to construct a client that includes what would normally be delegated to a server.

(I'm sure someone's already thought of/worked with this idea before, though.)
I've got a 15" 2017 MBP, replacing one from 2014 or so. I think on balance the 2017 is better for my needs.

I don't particularly like the touchbar (though that may change if IntelliJ ever bring out their promised support and it's any good), but it's not a huge deal for me (at least after I remapped esc to caps lock; I now do this on every keyboard I use, as I find it more ergonomic). I do love the touchId thingy, but they could have done that without the touchbar.

I prefer the keyboard to the retina MBP one, though I preferred the pre-retina MBP one to either. There was something about the feel of the rMBP (and MacBook Air) one I never liked. This is very subjective, of course.

The port situation mostly hasn't bothered me, as I just use a USB-C hub with power passthrough. It would have been nice to have at least a single USB-A port, but realistically I wouldn't use it much.

I find battery life to be similar to the previous one, generally. I think the size sacrifice is worth it, at least for my needs, because it makes the machine very portable. I barely notice the weight of it in a backpack now.

My biggest complaint is one you haven't mentioned; you can't get an integrated GPU only version. You can't even fully disable the discrete GPU. This means that you're stuck with all the quirks of the dual GPU setup. This is a step back, IMO; I've no real use for a discrete GPU on my work machine, and these dual GPU Macs have never quite worked properly.

I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did, really, but I was mostly impressed.
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> local multiplayer mario kart works fine on the Switch

I got Mario Kart 8 for Switch and we tried playing it on one large shared TV screen.

We immediately ran into the problem that it's incredibly difficult to see the track on the split screen. Seems like local multiplayer only works well when everyone involved has memorized all the tracks.
I feel like containers (at-times) are the artifact organizational disfunction, the inability for teams to collaborate and a lack of engineering quality.

What’s sad is that I believe this to be true for the overhwelming majority.
Looks buggy to me. I created a test invoice and specified that it should be payable at a later date and only via ACH.

I checked the preview link and the only option to pay was by credit card. I sent the invoice anyway and the test user's credit card was immediately charged.
If you're on vacation, you're on vacation, in my book. If I'm taking a real vacation, I'm going to be somewhere way out in the sticks where there isn't even any cell service, sitting on a lake catching trout, in a foreign country backpacking with no laptop, or sipping tropical drinks on the beach in the sun. In none of those cases am I going to be able to do anything useful even if you did get ahold of me.
More friction than printing out a receipt and asking me to sign it?

BTW, if you want to see just how efficient chip-and-pin can be, go to a bar in a nordic country. In Helsinki I can pay with chip-and-pin as quickly as cash (assuming change). The bartenders won't even hold a tab open for you, they just charge you every time. I've experienced the same efficiency in Sweden.
Thing is, as someone probably a generation apart, at least, I don't disagree.

We all work within a context of abstractions, and in any given generation, poking and prodding at those abstractions and trying to understand what happens below it is immensely valuable and instructive. For one generation, below it might mean pen and pencil, and for the other it might mean looking into what jQuery actually does.

Let's not forget that 'pen and pencil' was once upon a time an abstraction inaccessible to many too!
>There aren’t restrictions on who you can send them to, what time of the day you can send them, the maximum amount you can send. You don’t have to worry about your bank account being frozen or suspended. You don’t have to wait days for transactions to go through. You don’t need a bank account at all to store them.

All of that applies to cash under your mattress.

And "You don’t have to wait days for transactions to go through."? Nonsense. Blockchains don't scale.
These need not be cryptographically random either.
Worked for a (now defunct) Silicon Valley company that did this. My experience also really turned me off to the whole idea.

The problem was that it was not clearly defined across the company how much vacation was too much or too little, and even if you hear one thing when you get hired, a reorg can put you under someone with a totally different viewpoint. Meanwhile, in companies I've worked without unlimited vacation, it's clearly defined how much vacation is too much, because you can't use more than your bucket.

My first boss was the one who hired me into the company, and when he called me to present the offer, he told me that as a European he felt people in the US don't take enough time off and he wanted us to do 4-5 weeks a year. At one point mid-summer he told me "I don't think you've taken enough time off, it's slow next week, so go have the week off and take your kid to the pool a lot."

That boss left the company, and I got reorged into a team that was pretty much the remnants of a startup that my employer had acquihired. The company was pushing this team to develop and release a particular new product concept ASAP, but giving minimal staffing to do so, so it was constant lowgrade crunch the whole time. The manager (and former founder of that startup) was also still operating in startup-hustle mode and setting the sort of example that while you technically get time off, you'd best not be taking a whole lot.

I worked under each boss for a year. Under manager 1 I took 4.5 work weeks off in 12 months. Under manager 2 I took 7 days off in 12 months.

Not a lawyer but I imagine that companies don't provide more guidance on _minimum_ vacation time usage, because maybe that could be construed as a bucket, and would put you back under the idea that in certain jurisdictions (California included) vacation accruals are viewed as compensation duly earned by the employee but not paid out yet. Avoiding having to carry that as a liability on your books and pay out when people separate, as I understand it, is the primary purpose behind unlimited vacation policies in the first place.
I think there might be some people interested in a 25K machine, but only if it really improves their workflow; don't think adding more money / processing power does much for most people, maybe for 3d rendering but they have specialized hardware for that, which gives them more raw bang for their bucks than Apple could do.

I'm wondering if it'd be viable to have a 'compute unit' shared by multiple users. i/o would probably be a bottleneck, so maybe have it link up macs via usb-c? It might help with e.g. compile times (which last time I did iOS development, two years ago, was kinda slow (>1 minute for our app, CPU bound)).

But that's probably too specialized a thing. Apple wants to sell units by the million, not the hundreds (if that). Which is why they discontinued the mac pro and the 17 inch MBP.
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UUIDs are fine too. What matters is how they're generated.

If you're generating v4 UUIDs server side using the "uuid" NPM module then you're fine as internally it's using crypto.randomBytes(...)[1] with an almost 16-byte random string (UUIDs are 16-bytes but a proper v4 UUID has to override some of the bits to conform to the spec[2]).

If you're rolling your own UUID function or generating them client side then they may not be as random as you think. For example the same uuid NPM module silently uses Math.random()[3] on the client side if it can't find a better alternative. It's fine for something purely local to the one browser but I wouldn't rely on it being unique globally.

[1]: https://github.com/kelektiv/node-uuid/blob/17d443f7d8cfb65a7...

[2]: https://github.com/kelektiv/node-uuid/blob/17d443f7d8cfb65a7...

[3]: https://github.com/kelektiv/node-uuid/blob/17d443f7d8cfb65a7...
If the asteroid belt originally had the mass of Earth, then I'd say it's fair to count it as a planet in this context, assuming that the orbits of the planets were established fairly early and have stayed about the same since then.
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Obviously not, they haven't had a competitive product in the space for ~five years.
Protip: change your phone's display to 'Monochrome'. Colorful images trick our fruit-loving monkey brains. Make your phone visually boring.
SageMaker is awesome but it's a very different product. There is nothing in SageMaker that lets you track performance over time and no fancy dashboard. That being said SageMaker's pricing is actually reasonable, and adding a dashboard on top of it shouldn't be that complicated.
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I ignored these for the longest time because they were about the bible. Well, they aren’t really. They’re kind of about everything, and now I wish I’d watched them a lot sooner.
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USA. I’ve worked under an unlimited vacation policy for 8 years. It’s fantastic, I’ve been able to do lots of trips to places I wanted to visit, and in addition can always see my family at holidays, and can always take time off when people visit me. I’ve never been denied or frowned at for taking time off. But I enjoy my job and my colleagues enjoy theirs, so people work hard without compulsion.
I think we're inclined to favor whatever abstraction we grew up with, and nerds are slightly more likely to favor the next one.
Agreed. It’s a long game. The market cap of Bitcoin is still minuscule compared to other markets. If you look historically the volatility has decreased as the price has increased and I expect that will continue. I consider Bitcoin in a price discovery phase right now which could continue for another 5 or 10 years or more (assuming the powers of the world allow it to).

The lightning network and other software will solve many of the issues with regards to transaction fees and delays. I think adoption will eventually come back.
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Yeah Apple still owns the laptop market but even their latest Macbook Pro wasn't really, more mainstream. Mac is still a better development environment because it is nix based for most things webdev related and iOS appdev mobile related.

At far as desktops though, even creative/advertising agencies are moving to PC for 3d, photography, graphic design, audio production, video production and more. These were always the target market of Apple but they lost many.

Apple iPhone lost ground to Android and laptops may also do so starting with development. I see many devs that went from Mac to PC desktop go from Macbook Pros to Surface Pros but that is just starting. Eventually it could also start switching people from iPhone to Android/Samsung/Google hardware as well as the hardware has caught up.

Apple being a hardware company, it is strange they did not take more advantage of the desktop inroads they were making in 2006+ with Intel and iOS development.
A lie by omission is still the lie. If you ever have to tell someone that you didn't tell them the complete truth what you really mean is that you lied to/misled them.

Regarding being dead sorry I was thinking of the child porn case not the shooter my mistake.
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Last week a paper came out saying no adult neurogenesis. But I see today this paper came out:

http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(18)30...

It usually flips every month.