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You can take a look at what happened after German unification to get an idea of what it would look like.

To be sure, this is a frequent topic of discussion in South Korea, and this precise situation has been studied in some detail. The consensus seems to be to NOT do what the Germans did: It has been economically prohibitive, and East Germany is still noticeably behind the West in economic development. And the economic difference between the two Koreas at the moment is far, far greater today than the difference between the two Germany's in the 1990's. There are also cultural factors: North Korean workers are used to working under Communism, will they accept working under a capitalist elite?

That being said, a thought experiment with a Unified Korea is rather interesting. North Korean labor would perhaps be cheaper; South Korean companies could outsource manufacturing to the North instead of to China and still remain globally competitive. The North has vast mineral resources which could be exploited. A land route to China would increase Korean-Chinese trade immensely. So generally it would look very good economically.
Who cares about performance as long as it works?

Pretty sure you're all missing the point.

The point is that a kid working fast food during the day and OpenChip/OpenCores enthusiast at night could build whatever they're thinking of over summer vacation.

New businesses are no longer started in the garage - they're started in the kitchen.
I'd add Let over Lambda (LOL) to that list.
But they won't. The reason they're willing to store and serve all the information for us is so they can mine it for revenue. They're not going to adopt homomorphic encryption and lock themselves out from their primary (only) revenue source.
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A more reasonable interpretation of this is that the purpose of the disc had to be clear. If a customer needs something to restore their Dell, they are looking for something that says it’s a Dell restore disk.

If there were a profit component to this, using their trademark looks damning. In context, though, it’s clear that the intention is convenience for the customer to identify the correct tool. That doesn’t grant an exemption to violating trademarks, but the penalty should be proportional.

For 28,000 discs at 25 cents each, after shipping and printing costs, this guy is not making money.

Throwing him in jail for helping confused old people get their PC back up and running is a travesty.
What was your goal?

I read a few days ago about hunger helping with chronic pain and I read a few articles about fasting (although, you're saying you don't feel hungry anymore after a while, which would not be poaitive in my case).

Pretty fascinating stuff, though.
When you get those headaches/nausea, have you noticed any correlation with how hydrated you are at the time?
so what is the solution to expensive rents in your mind?
Mostly agreed. I don't know anything specifically about Stripe, but I did work on fraud prevention systems for a major company. Being able to aggregate signals across multiple customers is a massive help in fraud detection - in terms of signal quality, bigger is better here.

As a simple illustrative example from the article - a large provider will have history for email addresses and street addresses. Maybe they've seen lots of orders in the past from a given sketchy email address paired with a reshipping center that were all valid, which moves the risk of a transaction from "dodgy" to "probably fine". They'll have historical information that an individual merchant just won't have.

That said, at some point you're going to need to have your own specialists involved, because the big providers aren't going to have the specific domain knowledge about your products/users to make good decisions around the margins. Plus you'll probably want to define your own tolerance for risk.
These systems are the most frustrating to me, because it is the unusual transactions that are more important than the usual ones.

If I have eggs delivered every week, and one of those transaction fails, who cares?

If I buy a plane ticket for a flight that leaves in 30 minutes because of an emergency, I will be fucking enraged if that transaction is blocked.

Similarly if I can't pay the hotel at check-out and because of this delay I miss my flight.

Or when I arrive in a new country and can't pay for the taxi ride, and the ATMs don't work either.

All these events have happened to me.
I had NewEgg flag a transaction of mine as fraudulent in 2009, they just silently cancelled it then gave me strange errors on the order status page. When contacted they said the transaction was flagged and there was nothing they could do.

I didn't use NewEgg again until 2017 as a direct result. That one bounced transaction (and frankly how they handled it) cost them six years worth of business that Amazon got (talking easily $3K+).

I think you're the edge case. Most customers will be somewhere between put out and outright angry.
This is actually success - testing proved that a widget wasn't ready to be space qualified for a challenging mission. It broke in testing, enabling engineers to know about that they need a better design.

Now, they're paying for a new shield, and all the engineering work that goes into that, rather than preparing the funeral for some astronauts and all the horribleness that goes into the loss of team members.
The author, Will Oremus, supports the assertion you highlighted in the portion of the article that you removed from your quotation with brackets and an ellipsis. In Oremus' original, the words "only with great reluctance" link to a previous article [1] by Oremus about the genesis of Google's advertising strategy, and he goes on to quote Brin and Page's 1998 paper [2] criticizing ad-funded search engines as inherently biased. The sourcing on Oremus' anecdotal knowledge of Zuckerberg's indifference to advertising is rather thin, but it's also a typical bit of color from a tech writer who, readers can assume, knows a lot of people in the industry. In any case, it strikes me as bad faith to argue that an author doesn't provide support for his assertions when you have excised some of that very support from your quote of the article.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/when_big_businesses_w...

[2] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
>dictatorship of unelected beaurocrats

Ugh. MEPs are elected directly by citizens in popular elections, the European Council is composed of heads of member states, the Council of the EU is composed of specialized government officials of member states, commissioners of the Comission are appointed by the member states. How is this dictatorship, how is it unelected?
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You would think so, but somehow the artificial stuff is different or in greater concentration.

Here's how I discovered my MSG intolerance:

I made a bunch of onion soup (from onion soup mix), and ate a ton of it. I then spent the next 24 hours feeling terrible, downing pepto, etc.

A few weeks later I made a recipe that included onion soup mix as an ingredient. Again I felt terrible.

I though, Aha, I must have an onion allergy, this onion soup mix keeps making me sick.

So I started checking if onions themselves made me sick. But onions were no problem.

Then I looked at the other ingredients on the onion soup mix. Monosodium glutamate stood out. I remembered hearing that could cause problems. So I started learning more about it, and as I did much of my digestive life came into focus. I remembered moments of intestinal agony ever since I was a teenager that I couldn't explain. I paid attention to what bothered my stomach, and always there was some form of MSG---autolyzed yeast, etc.

Since making an effort to avoid MSG I almost never encounter those symptoms. And when I do it's usually attributable to food prepared by others whose ingredients I can't strictly account for.

People claim MSG intolerance isn't a real thing, but my experience has shown me otherwise.
My understanding is that it's tightly regulated with unique identifiers for all ingots, bars, etc and the ownership of each being recorded so there is an audit trail if a diluted bar or ingot is found later.

Do you have a source for this? My understanding is there is almost no tracking whatsoever of gold. Yes, if you brought in a new poured ingot, someone will want to confirm the purity, but there are no required identification stamps on gold that connect it with an owner (some gold dealer may add them voluntarily). Dealer will be happy to pay cash as long as they know they aren't get scammed.

My father in law buys gold coins all the time. They are all identical and there is no way to determine ownership. You can buy and sell in cash. No questions asked.

Now, if you went to gold dealer and tried to offload $1M worth of unmarked gold ingots, you're risking a call to the police who will ask you where it came from. But beyond that, it's a pretty unregulated market.
I wouldn't be so quick to pat them on the back about that... First came CFLs, which put literal tons of mercury in landfills. ...not to mention their terrible power factor almost negated any efficiency improvements.

LED solves many of these issues thankfully,
>It didn't take long for Jeff Bezos to get his parents on board. According to Stone, the couple invested $100,000 in Amazon in 1995 — even though Jeff Bezos had warned them there was a 70% chance they'd never see that money again.

>Mike Bezos told Stone that, even though they'd seen the business plan, they didn't exactly understand it. "As corny as it sounds, we were betting on Jeff," Mike Bezos said.

That line so great. They were just betting on their son even though they didn't understand the business at the time. I wonder what percentage he gave them? Having believe in you even if its just your parents probably was a big reason he was so successful.
Per the article, Accent has additional flavorings.
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Well, technically a pro-US regime in Japan and Taiwan have been right across some very narrow straits for over 8 decades now with no such Wars. Maybe it isn't that big of a deal.
> Because nobody has a reaction to MSG. It's ill effects are entirely fictional.

It has not been proven, and will not be proven, that every single person in the world has no reaction to MSG. All I'm advocating is a little bit of doubt. The human body is complex and not every person is the same and not every biological process is completely understood. We can make statements as a whole, like that most people that think they're sensitive to MSG aren't. But we shouldn't excitedly immediately dismiss a person claiming that something is happening to them.
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MSG is fine, but I stubbornly cling to the notion that high quality ingredients should yield umami taste without adding MSG. To me it's similar to using ripe red bell peppers that are sweet, without needing to "fake" it with cane sugar. It's easy to turn dishes into caricatures by taking basic tastes to extremes. I'm no miso soup expert, but shouldn't it naturally have MSG from the seaweed, fermented miso paste, tuna, and tofu?

Still, perhaps it's a bit silly because I don't blink when adding salt.
Facebook doesn't share your personal info with third parties--at least, not with advertisers. The fact that it allowed you to hand over that information to third-party developers (not advertisers) is the root of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Ya, same here. To me, the gopher was the logo - I didn't even know if they had a separate logo or not, and never bothered. I mean, when you have one like the gopher, why do you need anything else?
People interpret the same emoji in completely different ways (2016)
Except that free jazz festivals aren't public venture-backed companies with every incentive to grow and maximize profit. If they were, they'd also extract a lot more out of you, and more aggressively, in order to compensate for the free attendance.
There is currently, no known way to change the set point, other than extreme measures: bariatric surgery. And even with that, they're not exactly sure how it changes the set point.

We're not even completely sure of what causes the set point to be messed up. There's a mountain of correlational evidence that points to sugar and all the foods that were invented to replace fat (obesity skyrocketed precisly the year US told everyone to switch over from fat to sugar). But, what precisely about sugar is it? the processed foods probably?

At this point, all we can do is try to eat as natural as possible and prevent the set point from ever getting messed up, as early as possible, before your overweight before your an adult, before even childhood. It starts with the baby in the womb.
> How was this land released to citizens previously and how has that changed since?

It was doled out via the Homestead Act. Anybody could take the land and farm it. And what land did they take? Land that they thought they could grow enough on to not starve. What land was that? Land with water.

The land that didn't get taken was land that had no water - not enough to run a farm. And it probably still doesn't have enough water for a subdivision, at least not one with lawns.
I was thinking more of the fact the are paired with the view. To be honest never gave the fact they are decorators much thought.
> Using an inconsistent and unlikely email address [...] By "unlikely" I mean one that no reasonable person would want to have, usually containing a big batch of numbers in it.

This is awful.

I create random e-mail addresses for every online merchant I have to interact with. It's by far the best way to avoid both real spam and "promotional message" spam.

I don't even use my "real" domains, because anybody who knows my name and the domains I use can construct my personal e-mail addresses. I have special domains dedicated to online commerce, and they look pretty random.
As the article says, todays vote on it was between representatives of the member state governments, who clearly have been given their voting mandate from their respective elected government. Which is how the majority of EU law is created: The EC proposes, and member state representatives and/or MEPs vote on it.
Yes, exactly. Too much of "the YIMBY movement" consists of relatively wealthy people telling poorer people that they should re-develop their neighborhoods for the good of everyone. We'll all have cheaper rents! (...by like $10 a month, on average...but your rent, Mr. Poor Person, will be 10x higher. Sorry. It's for the good of the people.)

It's sad, for example, to see so much discussion of the Mission in San Francisco (which is already quite dense, by any standard short of "midtown manhattan"), when the western 3/4ths of SF (much of which consists of wealthier people in suburban-style mansions) is routinely ignored. And though I believe that YIMBY people do want to raise height limits and density everywhere (good, fine), in practice, the debates usually center on re-development in poorer neighborhoods, since it's an easier political lift.
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My first car was a 1986 Honda CRX Si, which IIRC had a pretty low Cd of 0.31. I picked up plenty of bugs with it back then.
> Trump's three-front legal war turns on sex, money and Russia

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/donald-trump-legal-b...

Can you extract the hyperbole from the fact? It's not terribly difficult to see what is evidently true and what is innuendo.

Even if there were no headlines that matched the ones I wrote, my argument would still be valid. I'm arguing that "truth" is insufficient. A plain presentation of evidence is the only way effective way to combat bias. Though, it is not a panacea.
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> It is not bulletproof but I have yet to see fraudster go to that extend.

There's a comment upthread in which someone describes dealing with a fraud ring that uses a call center to defeat exactly this approach. Anecdotally, I know shop owners who have also dealt with would-be fraudsters who will happily talk to them over the phone.

Which is not to say that your experience is anything less than completely valid! It just might not encompass the whole of the range of possible valid experiences.
I don't know where you buy your led light bulbs but here in switzerland you usually have three choices (white, warm white, and something yellow-ish). I find the warm-white nuance quite pleasant.

Then, if you still want another colour, internet is here for you.
This is first-principles message board hypothesizing. In fact, there's enormous incentive in academic science to actually demonstrate a reliable adverse MSG effect, and there has been for decades. Why has no reputable study done so? Is it really your argument that no food scientist has ever thought of the study design questions you're alluding to here?
Is the intellectual asymmetry between creating a design and analyzing it so large that a small teardown team can reliably analyze trade-offs in a design created by a large engineering group?

For example, when they say "this flange is larger than necessary", how can they know all the possible reasons it might be necessary? Perhaps it adds stiffness or crash energy absorption, or is used to grasp the part during assembly, or avoids a resonant frequency.
A new york times article had a study that showed set point remains stubbornly high, even after 6 years of painfully maintaining a lower weight.
My criticism is that news orgs shoot first and ask questions later. Even the news orgs we hold in very high regard (NPR) do it. To me, that means it's a systemic problem with the profession.

They need to operate more like the justice system; you should be absolutely sure of the facts before you publish them. Yes, that means good stories sometimes won't be published, just like the justice system is sometimes unable to convict people even though they "did it".
Because willfully breaking the law in the worlds second largest economy generally isn't considered "good business"?
The problem I see is NewEgg handled it poorly, it doesn't sound right that there wasn't anything they could do. That's NewEgg's problem and nothing wrong with actually flagging a transaction that requires a manual investigation.
Even the best organizations are reluctant to challenge the narrative expectations of their audience: the audience pays the bills. For example, nearly all economists agree that rent control generates unfair outcomes. Yet, the papers in SF almost never discuss this. Why? Because it would challenge the prevailing expectation of their readers.

As an aside, I'm an enthusiastic reader of the Economist: it seems as if subscriptions are better incentives than clicks for journalists by reducing pressure to generate clickable headlines appealing to baser instincts. Sadly, fewer and fewer publications will survive. BTW - the Washington Post's news content has gotten a lot better under Bezos. I scan it every day now.
If you look from a maturity of the Java ecosystem perspective, then even now there's a point to be made.

Even compared to Java IDEs of a decade and a half ago, the refactoring, and other smart-assist facilities in Typescript editors/IDEs is rather weak.

Of course, Typescript isn't generally, totally statically typed, so that brings a whole set of challenges. And Typescript's type system is very complex these days.

But I agree Webstorm (and really the whole suite of Intellij IDEs) does a great job with Typescript. I think only recently in the past month or so, VS Code has gotten unused imports checking.
It's not that simple. According to the obmudsman, the story was basically incomplete,

https://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2018/04/12/601650762/...

it's one of the most basic things in our profession, that we gather responses from the people who are the subject of criticism

the reporter... did not seek comment from the individual identified in the story

NPR learned of the mistake via an email from someone who said he was representing the person NPR had identified as the "author."

At this point you might expect a correction with the new information from the third party added to the original story, but that won't work here.

In order to fix the problems, we would have essentially had to construct a different story," a process that he said would have been "intellectually dishonest. There comes a point that you can't fix a story appropriately

By analogy, sometimes the best thing to do is roll back code instead of trying to fix it.
Or people caring about software freedom. To this day you have to agree to a Privacy Policy to be able to use Intellij which is why I personally stick with Eclipse.
Yeah and made me wonder if we'll end up having to daily scrub ourselves in an incinerator...
Perhaps something like the Google Authenticator logo? https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=google+authenticator+lo...
I've been bitten by this before as a customer. I tried signing up for FastMail and was unable to create an account because their signup page required I supply a non-voip phone number. My phone carrier - Republic Wireless - is a voip-only carrier. Google Voice is also voip-only. At least, that's how their phone number check reported my phone numbers.
And you can eat organically-grown food as much as possible.
The "large" dose they use (5g) seems very small. By comparison, just 1 teaspoon of MSG is 8g. I could easily imagine some restaurant dishes containing more than that.

(Density of MSG is 1.62 g/cm³, 1 teaspoon = 5cm³)
> the policy that NPR pointed to (and that I quoted) is more general than that

I think the salient point is that there's a huge difference between a silent removal and a public retraction. The practices that NPR indicts in your original post obviously refer to the latter. Removing without retraction is certainly an attempt to "erase history". Publishing a public retraction and discussing it at length is not "erasing history".

NPR's executives have even explained why, in this particular case, they chose to remove the article: Turpin said, "In order to fix the problems, we would have essentially had to construct a different story," a process that he said would have been "intellectually dishonest. There comes a point that you can't fix a story appropriately." He said the decision was not made lightly; "we believe strongly we don't want to disappear material for any reason if we can possibly keep from taking it down."

edit: Essentially it's the difference between a ghost edit and an "edit: I changed xyz in my post". Do you really believe that silently /dev/null'ing an article is equivalent to a public retraction?
You absolutely can sell unmarked gold, but at a lower price than, for example, Canadian mint gold coins. You may need to pay for an assay to prove its purity.

Edit: Google "gold scrap refining", it is not an uncommon thing.
Exactly.

Shoddy journalists would respond by doubling down. Attacking the people who question the original story, producing concurring stories and publishing them on sister sites, and then citing those stories in followup stories on your own site. Pushing the narrative and ignoring the truth at all costs.
Very interesting thank you for chiming in
From a culinary perspective, the flip side of that --- referenced in the article --- is that sometimes you want the umami taste sensation without clouding the flavor of the product you're "seasoning". You can bump umami with soy sauce, parm, or tomato paste, but not without adding soy, parm, or tomato flavor. MSG lets you turn that knob while mostly keeping the pure flavor of the rest of the dish intact.
Wouldn’t the bugs just eat all the crops then? I mean, sure they can just import their potatoes from eg Egypt, but guess what, those potatoes will be sprayed against the Colorado potato beetle, because without that the crop has no chance at all.
So who's up for forming a Hackernews gunter clan?
If your story unfairly libels someone, particularly a private individual, that presents its own ethical challenges, doesn't it?