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>1. You have zero links to projects or things you've worked on
>2. site has a very 90s look and feel

For the sake of the argument, there is a link to a portfolio web site that looks A-OK.
This would also solve the case of objects that pretend to have every property as a function, e.g.: https://github.com/slmgc/Nothing
> culture is an issue

maybe in theory, but every company I've ever even heard of has been more than happy to throw together almost any random group of people regardless of culture (or even language) as long as they had the right credentials and expect for culture issues to sort themselves out and good quality to appear. But if consistent culture is the important thing... it's a lot easier to find a homogeneous culture in Hyderabad, India than it is in San Francisco, CA (of all places).
Good point. You'd likely want to also encode something that opaque to who exactly has participated, only really show whether this is the last step and a way for individuals to tell if they have already added their secret.

The really bad part would be that if the poisoner happens to be the last step then the final step would produce the secret before handing it to be poisoned.
Aside from the legal technicalities and motivations of the parties in this case, the goal of prolonging the usable life of computers is incredibly laudable.

The continuing process by which otherwise functional hardware is made into trash simply because the market incentives don’t motivate the manufacturers to prioritize this is (borderline) tragic.

The way updates of operating systems require ever more powerful hardware drives me crazy. If prolonging the use of hardware was an explicit goal of the companies that make the operating systems, not only could a huge amount of waste be kept out of landfills, we could have devices whose performance increases over time.
I want to thank everyone who contributed to this thread. The variety of experiences and viewpoints provided an incredible insight to someone who's been mostly in the USA for the last 2 decades. My conclusions:

a) There's not a snowball's chance in Hell that a European AI hub compete with the US,

b) Europe remains far more fragmented than I thought it was; even more fragmented than it appeared when I was in high school. "Brexit" may actually increase Europe's (and Britain's) organization.

c) Britain and Europe have tons of good people but a lack of organization suitable for pure research, be it by governments, corporations, "hubs", or non-governmental organizations.

d) China is similarly SNAFU'd but worse in some respects (unsettled markets, lack of transparency & property rights). Luckily, there doesn't appear to be a ghost of a chance of having one of China's many languages adopted as a scientific "lingua franca". [Note to self: cross the (formerly) relevant item off my "bucket list".]

e) Perhaps restoring near-universal use of the character encoding UTF-16 or even US-ASCII is not a completely dead idea but merely one to be delayed until the adoption of English as the "lingua franca" of the Internet and Europe, salvaging much-needed bandwidth. Time will tell.
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Google the owner of the portfolio website. There are news stories about the crime with his name on them.
Please don't force me against my will to be limited to what you personally consider to be an acceptable standard of care. How I choose to live or die is none of your business.
I'm glad they were still selling the old version, which the old keyboard and old USB ports, when my girlfriend and I got ours.
We've actually toyed with having a version without the coach that's quite a bit cheaper (~9/month) - is that something you'd find more compelling?
The V2 rocket program consumed a vast amount of Germany's resources, to pretty much zero military effect. If they'd expended those resources on things like jet aircraft, it might have made a difference. The V2 program helped lose the war for the Germans.
You are proving the OPs point and attacking a strawman.
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What you're getting at is the difference between Negative Rights and Positive Rights. Negative Rights guarantee inaction, e.g. the government can't suppress your speech or take away your ability to defend yourself. Positive Rights guarantee action, e.g. the government will force someone to provide you healthcare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights

You're also touching on the difference between Natural and Legal Rights.
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It could be argued that social consequences of recidivism are so great in some cases (ex. sexual offenses) that it's reasonable to prevent them at all costs, provided the freedom of ex-felons to choose a wide array of other occupations is not impacted significantly.

It would be a great progress from the current status quo, that basically denies them most jobs, even those where the higher than average recidivism risk of ex-felons is immaterial. I would see it as a practical political compromise.
The problem is much like the author said -- it's easy to have errors disappear into the ether in a way that is much less likely in synchronous logic. Also, if those side-effects matter, it's easy to make faulty assumptions about time ordering.

The most obvious situation to me is in the way asynchrony exists in front-end programming and how this affects testability. If you can't actually know when a process (like an animation) ends, you can't accurately test.

In general, my experience has been that reification of abstract things often presents benefits in the long run. Reification of functions admits a whole host of techniques. Reification of classes facilitates metaprogramming. Reification of in-flight processes as promises helps with being able to compose and abstract over them. Nurseries seem like reficiation of an finite execution context.
Unless front-end development as a category has completely disappeared in the last few years there are certainly quite a few people who don't know how to do anything else.
People said that about motor cars, about touchscreen phones, and personal computers, the internet itself... any new technology will bring with it controversy, naysayers, early adopters, opportunities and pain.

Will Blockchain technology as we know it eventually go on and become something we all use / interact with? Nobody knows... but a technologist doesn't write off new technology just because it's not in use by everyone on the planet after less than a decade.
Have you considered applying for (remote) jobs outside of the US? At least in Europe background checks are very unusual, although with a unique name maybe even a simple Google search would "out" you :/

(I'm not saying you should be dishonest and lie about your conviction, but if they don't ask then no harm no foul)
I have an Early 2011 MBP 13" (yes, you read right). It was slow as hell on High Sierra and the fan was running all the time, CPU at 99% at some times without any real workload. Then, some random shutdowns started that never occurred before. Used TM backups a few times but still slow and unreliable.

That was the moment I decided to set up the systems fresh from scratch on a blank SSD (keeping the old one in a safe place as a backup option): Now, the MBP is running great (for its age), quiet fan except for high workloads and no runaway 99%-CPU processes.

Of cause, your mileage may vary, but I would suggest trying a fresh install from scratch and only install necessary programs. Don't rely on a TM backup.
I have been wondering if it would be feasible to create a consortium of ethical technology companies, who would maintain a "blacklist" of corporations who behave unethically.

Every member of the consortium would then pledge to never hire anyone who has ever worked for a blacklisted company. That way, there would be an extra disincentive for people to take part in unethical business practices since that could harm their employment prospects irreparably.
This guy recreates your BF's/GF's favorite places, friends, heroes in a PC game
I switched from a MacBook Pro to a Precision 5520, which is sort of like what a developer edition XPS 15 would be, if it existed.

I have exactly one complaint about this laptop, which is the touchpad under Linux. Initially, Ubuntu used the synaptics driver, which I simply could not lower the sensitivity enough to make it bearable. I have uninstalled the synaptics driver and now it's using xinput. This is a marked improvement, but I still can't use touch-to-click or I will get too many erroneous clicks around the screen while I'm typing. Also, and somewhat more annoyingly, I can't right-click without tap-to-click. I'm not sure what to do about that at all.

Overall, I think the problems are software. The keyboard is great, the screen is great, the battery life is very decent.
I've been observing the space since before Eth launched. If you believe that raffles are an example of useful systems, then we'll have to disagree.

In fact there are thousands of good use cases.

If there are, then we'll surely see them. You're providing more of what I'm talking about - it's always next year, always coming, but the mainstream adoption is nascent.
> moral perspective

Really? Do you think that fraud is wrong?
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Is it the most used language in the world? Seems like I keep hearing comments like that, but the rankings I've seen don't list it that way.
But if that mutation needs majority (from miners or stake holders) how is it any worse than a democratic country deciding to change a law or print money or whatever?
After having my wonderful beast / tank of a MBA for so long, I was finally excited to upgrade to my first ever MBP. Oh boy, let me tell you...

- Broken keyboard, twice!
- Failed motherboard (wouldn't start).
- Now I have waves of darkness/light on the bottom of my screen after leaving it to idle for just a little bit that won't go away. Looks gross.
- It's so low power tbh, the Macbook Air felt much snappier (I have the non-touchbar base model).
- Honestly, the trackpad is just a smidge too big.
I feel the same way, I'm skeptical to post anything crypto related here anymore, meanwhile I'm busy "buidling" and keeping up with crypto / ethereum communities on discord
That's too bad, I'd encourage you to give them another shot. I've noticed a nice increase in competitiveness and quality:

- buy tickets online

- reserved seating

- aggressive no noise and no screens policies

- decently priced (still a bit high) and decent quality brewpub style food

- beers on tap

- recliner seating
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If you compare that to paying for a dietitian, it's actually not TOO bad. BUT, I think churn will be high due to price.

I could see a declining fee model. Just a thought.

We are trying a low FODMAP for my wife. I could see her paying for it for 2-3 months, then we would probably find that expensive at $29/w...but, if after 3 months, it went down to say $29 per month, then it would totally make sense as we would use it a lot less, I think.

At least if we compare to when she stopped gluten, lactose and a few other things 6 years ago...the worst was the first 2-3 months.
That was tried before and resulted in horrible levels of death and suffering. Which is exactly why we now have the AMA and laws against the unlicensed practice of medicine. No one who understands the history of medicine wants to go back.
From experiences working at large banks with huge customer volumes and balances, the question always used to be how much more money can we make. Sometimes it feels like we don’t have to do much and it’s still a profitable machine by default.

Having challenger banks makes it interesting as it pushes me to think more outside the box and have ammunition to convince internal stakeholders to experiment with new concepts.

I also have a hypothesis that there are some things you can do digital-only and some things you need some human interaction so looking at what challenger banks are doing is a form of validating my hypothesis.
Tesla initially had a battery-swap feature at its earliest Supercharger stations, but no one used it. For consumers, the recharge time was good enough even then.

Long haul trucks will probably use it.
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If it's a Postgres extension for time-series data, I wonder how it compares to TimescaleDB, which I recently discovered and have been evaluating.
I was just at Fry's electronics and right under the official Windows 10 copies (USB stick + license key, $105) were DVDs that said they were "Restore only" disks for Windows 10. It said plainly on the box that it didn't have a license key and you would need one. They were $12. They weren't made by Microsoft though (no genuine sticker, different packaging).

Seems like the same thing? I thought it seemed convenient for those who lost their media.
LMFTFY: "Don’t buy the NEW MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion"

I'm still on my old MBP2013 and kinda like it (first Apple computer and I was sceptical). However new Apple offering is plain terrible…

Also: don't do squiggly, moving underline on hyperlinks... what a distraction!
What the hell is going on here? Doesn't Microsoft offer similar for free download from their own website? I seem to remember their media creation tool not prompting for a key until install time. Why on earth would they fight this?
I had a similar thought, initially, which I posted elsewhere in this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924407
Pardon my ignorance, but do you know if this would affect PG as well, since it's an OS/hardware sourced issue?
Fn + Esc on my Precision 5520 seems to switch it into function key mode, or something. Found out about this yesterday, it may work for you too since these are almost the same laptop. It also came with the ethernet dongle, but I never really need it.
> I think that it was something along the lines of some implementations (including TianoCore) required the ExitBootServices call to be performed more than once to exit the UEFI-controlled environment correctly?

As hinted at in andreiw's reply, this is entirely spec-compliant (if really annoying). Quoting from the spec:

"Firmware implementation may choose to do a partial shutdown of the boot services during the first call to ExitBootServices(). A UEFI OS loader should not make calls to any boot service function other than GetMemoryMap() after the first call to ExitBootServices()."
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People suffer real harm at the hands of unlicensed doctors.

For example, this guy was prescribing powerful meds with severe side effects.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/crime/...
Yes, but I think the other point is well-made, as well: languages that allow this can be very difficult to work in if you have to maintain a large app with multiple contributors over a long period of time.
It isn't about the effect. It's about being responsible for the things you help build.
fast ADC is not the problem per se, you can buy $10 ARM parts with 80MHz 12 bit ADC (LPC4370), pumping that data into computer fast enough is.
whois before google! what is wrong with me.
What would it do? I looked (probably too) briefly...and thought the the main value was mostly the coach. Or at least, the value I saw that I was "OMG, we need this in French _now_".
But this is the other way around. Weaker encryption hurts people, but people in other countries are more free if their governments are restricted from getting this censorship technology.
If you look at it, that kind of humanism (where the distinction between "humans" and "not humans" is more important than the distinction between, say, "Christians" and "not Christians" wasn't in vogue in the 16th century. 16th century Europeans sent enormous numbers of missionaries to the Americas with the aim of converting the natives; they wouldn't have done that if orangutans were the prevailing primate on the continent.
If that were true, do you think they actually made any money off this process?
I didn't claim otherwise.
In the sense that a car is a reinvention of a horse buggy.
It’s a fascinating story and so far they have only excavated about 10% of the site. The thing which stands out to me (not mentioned in the article) is that so far the archaeologists have only found male remains. So far they do not know what became of the women. Some speculate that they may have been taken, but if that was the case there ought to be remains of old women since an attacker would not kidnap those. The working theory right now is that the women where rounded up before they were killed and that that site remains to be found.

The head archaeologist speculates that this attack was part of a civil war on Öland (the island where Sandby is located) and that the purpose of this attack was to intimidate opponents. And since no one came to bury the dead it appears to have worked.
Moreover Nalgene water bottles became popular for consumer use (previously they were a laboratory equipment company) in the 70s according to Wikipedia. I believe that well predates the rise of cupholders in cars.
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The idea is that money shouldn't enter into the decision to have planned care at all.

Money always enters the decision, even in a single payer system. Someone decides what will and won't be paid for. Your example of preventative care isn't a good one, since every US insurer had to cover it at no copay.

You mean LASIK?

Yes I do. And I mean the fact that it went from several thousand dollars in cost to under $1000 in pretty short time due to competition.

And of course consumers know what quality they are purchasing, any smart person would make the decision on more than just price.
The example seems to be a dictionary, so of course you cannot guarantee that all possible permutations are covered.
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Technology just encodes the ethics of the creator, so we can't hope for apolitical technology.
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I just finished reading the Phoenix Project, and I wanted to say the beginning of this post read almost exactly like the first 3/4's of the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...
I tried signing up for early access but seems like it’s not working?
Is the non emoji keyboard on the current MBPros identical (read: as shitty) as the one on the emoji models?
Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress had a few different concepts for non-traditional marriages.

The protagonist's arrangement was a "line marriage", wherein the family partnership would marry in younger people at regular intervals to maintain approximate male-female parity and to keep property continuity as the older partners died off. At one point in the book, it was considered a big deal when an adult child of an older couple in the line marriage married back into it as a spouse.

There was also a "group marriage" which sounded a bit like everyone in your high school graduating class marrying each other, or like a cross between a marriage and a tontine.

In case of divorce, the remaining spouses would keep all the real property and the separating spouse would be paid off with cash. But divorce required unanimous approval, either of all the other spouses or all the spouses of the opposite sex, depending on how the thing was originally set up.
A beer goes between the legs, not in a cup holder.
Your points in terms of the art are sound. But... it's much bigger than that. You must consider how the movie industry actually works. How it makes money.

There is no way to produce a reliably successful film. None. There's not even any way to improve your chances. For every film filled with star-studded actors that is a success, there is one which is a failure. For every big-budget blockbuster, there is a big-budget flop. For every formulaic success, there is a formulaic failure. On the balance, and it has been extensively and exhaustively studied, it's random. The public audiences response to a film is truly, 100%, random. Only very recently have some strides been made in predicting the future success of a film before opening - and that only based upon tweets in the 48 hours prior to its opening. Quite a bit shy of the years of notice necessary to actually inform funding decisions of projects.

You can't survive in a space where the return on investment is random. Unless... you can rig the game. If you can control what films the public has access to at any given time, and you make sure to yank poor performers out of the theater after their first weekend, while keeping the successes around for far longer... then you can get an edge. You can make a profit. Without that ability to control and manipulate distribution, and restrict availability, they would be left with the randomness again. And they would quickly falter in the face of that.

The book 'A Drunkard's Walk' includes a whole chapter on the public's response to media, the research which proves it is purely random (down to the audience never being the same group of people twice among other factors), and the way the big businesses in those industries deal with that fact. Without those tactics, which online distribution completely robs them of, it really is an existential threat. Of course, Netflix is showing us that we don't need them at all and there are entirely different ways to handle the problem.
When you apply for banking jobs, there is a question that asks if you were related in any financial-style crime. I think it's mandated by regulation, and the scope is limited to crimes having to do with the profession itself.

The amount of political capital required to undo that law and make criminal histories effectively private would probably be too much, so you do the political compromise and exempt some categories.
How does that differ under a single payer system where a doctor might do surgery that isn't needed. The problem of bad actors exists whether you have a market or not.
It isn't correct to "upgrade" someone to a different piece of software, and it definitely wasn't "graceful". The whole source of my rage comes from the fact that everything was inexplicably broken and I did not know why.

If Debian doesn't have a piece of software, it shouldn't update it. It should leave it alone.

(And bear in mind, I was working from a script, so unless I sit there reading every line while it builds the VM, all of this unauthorized breakage of my machine is silent and without consulting me.)

And of course, the response to "man mysql" makes no sense, because MariaDB is not MySQL.
I have macbook from 2007 something.
I changed battery once, works fine.
Running belt. Better than the fanny pack suggestion, more concealable if your shirt is untucked.

I, personally, just choose the fashionably unpopular option of cargo shorts. But if I had to come up with something else, I'd use my running belt.
Judging by how the iOS speech synthesizer pronounces them, that is a lot better than “Ladle Rat Rotten Hut” and “Tweeze Denied Beef Worker Isthmus” (both mentioned in comments to the post mentioning “Spell Chequer”)
yup, about once every other month a random key stops working reliably on my touch bar macbook pro. it's a bad bad keyboard. the key seems to fix itself after a few days though, so no brokenness seems to have been permanent but it freaked me out and then pissed me off each time.
I do clean installs on my Late 2013 13" MBP annually with each major OS update, and my performance is still very good.