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Aside from Patrick Bateman committing gratuitous murders on screen, the major difference is that he hates his life and he never looks like he's having fun.

Jordan Belfort might be doing terrible things (although not as bad as serial murder), but he looks and acts like he loves every minute of it. Bateman doesn't.

You could also compare The Hangover and Leaving Las Vegas. One makes a drug-filled weekend in Vegas look sort of fun, and one does not.
Didn't one of the major ISPs get their ass handed to them in court for trying to say that they were somehow exempt from keeping exactly this sort of information? I mean, you can SAY it, but it would be sort of insane to make a statement like that without a lawyer signing off on it. The law doesn't have a "this is too hard for us" or "we didn't build our network for this" exemption, does it?
> AirBnB arguably increases supply of people in beds through more efficient utilization.

That's not supply (which is a measure of what is on offer to be sold), it's market clearing quantity. And, yes, AirBnB increases the supply and market clearing quantity (and decreases average price) of short-term occupancy by transferring units already purchased or rented in the long-term market to be rented the short-term market (which drives up demand and market clearing price in the long-term market.)
Based on Smith's paper and our experiments, it seems pretty important. But there's still much research to be done to understand momentum tuning and related concepts.
OMG, that's a great name for the app. FlowGuardian!

Yeah, I just want to be able to fence off 10-20 minutes of flow at a time, and let a couple of questions queue up so I can answer them both at the same time.

The worst days are when I'm getting single interruptions every 5-10 minutes.
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I think the problem with Fight Club could be that the movie changed the ending just enough that the message was lost. In the book is was more obvious what the message was.
With 0 risk they could state they will buy 10000 of them and it would be worth just as much. You can go on their website and reserve 100 of them with absolutely no commitment on your end. And it's anybody's guess what will happen three years down the line (which is when they say they will start delivering vehicles, small detail, they still need to build a factory, but they did have a functional prototype).
Wasn't the message of Fight Club ostensibly anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist, the exact opposite of the lifestyle of #richkidsofinstagram ?
On the surface you can't assume either way if a listing on Airbnb means the unit is permanently off the market or not, likewise with counting or not counting every blocked-off calendar date: if it's not a period of 4-8-12 months blocked off, then it's likely not being rented to a long-term renter; the lister perhaps even perhaps booked those block-off calendar dates through a different service, or did the transaction not through/off of Airbnb.

Whether it's $100MM or $616M - it's a sign that there are external costs that that city and society must shoulder because of the higher prices people can charge with shorter-term rentals, primarily to non-locals who may or may not be staying or moving to the city.
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I was on this call. It was extremely cringey/embarrassing to hear Elon dismiss valid questions.

At the same time, it was fantastic to see a young, smart, retail investor (Gali from Hyperchange) get to ask so many questions directly to the leadership team. I thought before the call that Gali would get to ask only one question, like the other analysts. He was able to ask almost 10!

It was surreal. I was left feeling that the team overall did a great thing by allowing Gali but wished that Elon didn’t insult the institutional investors by (at least so harshly) dismissing valid questions.
Hollywood dont want people to be model citizen, otherwise they would want to consume recreation that has nothing to do with their business:

hiking

hanging out with friends families

reading

learning

whatever that is not being mind-washing by the popular entertainment
Is Musk still working long hours and sleeping at the car factory? Maybe he's a little under the effects of sleep deprivation.
The title is pretty deceptive, it seems to claim the study finds a link between cellphones and cancer.

Although the group did apparently comment on cellphones as a thing to investigate.

> Last night the group said the increasing rate of tumours in the frontal temporal lobe “raises the suspicion that mobile and cordless phone use may be promoting gliomas”.
Really good question! I also find this part quite illogical myself. My current believe (but no evidence whatsoever) is that:

a) He doesn't want to move up. The higher you get the more visible lack of skill and ambition becomes as well.

b) “It is not enough [for him] merely to win; others must lose.” ― Gore Vidal

Sorry, that's all I got about this question.
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If you’ve ever had first hand experience with being in an artistic/creative “scene” a lot of this is familiar. Especially on places like tumblr. There’s no shortage of self aggrandizing sociopaths all jockeying for status.

Most of the interactions are very transactional, based on favor trading and prestige. There’s tons of cliques that have pointless animosity towards others. The people themselves are usually very moody and depressive. It’s a very hostile and unpleasant environment.

I guess there’s nothing new under the sun!
Such movies should not show the person until the very end, just a series of shorts of the victims lifes becoming worser by one phone call. Absence of moral should be depicted as the absence of a person and decency it is.
Was this on AT&T's wireless network or wireline DSL/fiber? This problem is about the wireline network/CPE.
The scientific paper stated that the rhino's age came out to 709000 +/- 68000 years. The number was consistent with other measurements made of the age of the depositional layer.

Before releasing a claim like this, I would have to believe they were extremely careful in the testing and interpretation. If they have this wrong, it could be a career killer.
> I usually find adhoc interruptions are due to someone being blocked and spending 5 minutes with them can really turn their next few hours around.

I've found polling to be a good way to handle this while avoiding the problems of being interrupted yet still being reasonably responsive to coworkers needing help.

I take a short break every 20-30 minutes to avoid health problems from sitting too long [1]. Those breaks are a perfect time to check email and chat for requests for help.

My notifications are set so that when I get an email or chat I get a banner for a few seconds in a corner. If one comes in while I'm in the zone, I can assess it without losing flow because I know I've got a break coming up soon, and so I only have to decide if the incoming message is so important it can't wait for the break.

[1] http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/cuesitstand.html
We are all people but you are being ignorant if you don't consider yourself a consumer in the global economy.
Tesla is clearly flying close to the sun, and Musk is not incorrect to suggest that investors who can't take that kind of risk should not be along for the ride; however, it probably would have been more prudent to hold back on that pronouncement, given that many investors seem to have taken the hint and exited the stock...

Tesla is a giant confidence game - as are most high growth opportunities.
I recently wrote a piece on what happiness means to me and how I try to maintain it:
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/life/happiness.html

Maybe some will find it helpful.
If I understand this correctly, this basically uses the drawer's perceived number as an out-of-band signalling mechanism for the algorithm they agreed to follow. Each actor must adhere to the same scheme to address drawers. This means that the drawers must either be uniquely named ("labelled" ahead of time), or have some sort of natural ordering that's algorithmically deterministic (e.g. lexicographic, array index, 2D-position using a previously agreed algorithm like right-then-down).

What are some practical uses for this? Distributed hash table traversal using one's own address [1]?

[1] http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html
I think you're right that the statement doesn't make sense- or else we're both not understanding it.

From what I can see, no prisoner needs any information beyond knowing their own number. Once they know that, they're just searching the cycle that their number is in to see if it's less than 50-long.
Agreed! Though it's still about 80 pages. If you want to experience Moby Dick but don't feel like a strong reader or haven't found a way to enjoy this kind of literature, I'd recommend the audiobook while you're driving or doing something else for extended periods. The language is meant to wash over you and feel overwhelming.
Letting one person ask 10 questions means less time for other investors to ask their own individual questions.
Since wikipedia doesn't explain why it works (or maybe I just didn't understand it), I found this explanation much better: http://datagenetics.com/blog/december42014/index.html
Based on what I understand, the amount of traffic headed to 1.1.1.1 is much more significant. I agree with you though, that wouldn’t be justification to block it. It looks like they’re also blocking 1.0.0.1 and the relevant ipv6 addresses which shouldn’t have the same traffic issue.
His house still looks nice, though.
I keep my Slack status set to "nohello.com"[0], and ignore any messages sent to me which do not abide by nohello. It's worked pretty well so far.

[0]http://www.nohello.com/
Supporting competition exists and I think everyone on theory wants to support it. However, at the end of the day consumers prioritize their own immediate concerns over long term economic concerns.

I find it fascinating how humans have such trouble operating in context of big picture and make so many short sighted decisions.
This could very well be written by the head of the IRB as "My Scott Alexander Nightmare".

These questions all have purposes, and are there for a reason. For example:

"That was the first ten pages or so of the Application. The rest was increasingly bizarre questions such as “Will any organs be removed from participants during this study?” (Look, I promise, I’m not a Nazi)."

There are a number of studies done by Not Nazis that still involve removing organs.

"And: “Will prisoners be used in the study?” (COME ON, I ALREADY SAID I WASN’T A NAZI)."

I'm not a Nazi, and for one of my studies, the answer was yes - prisoners get treated at the hospital I was using EHR records for, which meant they were in the data set. As prisoners have a very distorted capacity for informed consent, it's an important question to ask.

"And: “What will you do if a participant dies during this research?” (If somebody dies while I’m asking them whether they sometimes feel happy and then sad, I really can’t even promise so much as “not freaking out”, let alone any sort of dignified research procedure)."

This is a perfectly fair question to be asked during a study - especially as for many trials, determining whether or not the death was due to the study is an important question.

As far as I can tell, this essay is "In which Scott Alexander didn't do his basic homework, but still wants to be able to do a biomedical study, and is upset the IRB didn't pre-emptively read his mind and tailor his form for his particular case."

He actually made me feel sympathetic toward the IRB...which is an impressive feat in and of itself.
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Is Nature fighting stem cell research from China?
`table -> trigger to log table -> trigger to notify` is exactly the right solution here. You can even use the same stored proc to replay old logs.
At least in the case of Breaking Bad, you can sort of believe Walter White at the start of the show is "making the best of a bad situation" but then he indeed "breaks bad" and turns into a genuinely bad and selfish character. He is terrible to Jesse, he lets innocent people die.

Something similar happens with Vic Mackey in The Shield: he starts as a morally grey antihero (if you forget he's a cop killer, of course) but gradually turns into something else. He's selfish, murderous and in the end doesn't really put his friends first, contrary to what he claims. He's a fascinating character, but not someone we should root for! (But we still do!)
How would you abbreviate it? The project uses PG as it's abbreviation like @harperlee mentioned. I apologize for the confusion over what I meant.
I would still like to look at the plans (though it's charming you thought I might try to build it...)
It really, really is.
Alexander's article was convincing because the downside of ignoring the regulations in his case was pretty close to zero. Giving a questionnaire to people probably isn't going to hurt them.

Injecting viruses into desperate people, on the other hand, has some pretty obvious risks. One can argue whether the current amount of regulation regarding it is excessive, but its pretty clear there needs to be some regulation.

Plus, note that the problems here weren't only regarding safety issues. The study was also poorly designed from the standpoint of getting meaningful data out of it. So even if one was indifferent to the safety of the study participants, the whole exercise seems to have been close to worthless, since the data is unusable.
Yes, but capitalism is more than capable of repackaging those subversive themes to push product.
I agree which makes me wonder, where do we draw the line with Amazon or any other company for example.
Please don't post these. It's not what the thread is for.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16975178 and marked it off-topic.
This is true, but retail investors don’t typically interact at this level. At the beginning of the call Elon said that they would let the earnings call run until they were out of questions. That clearly didn’t happen...
> which causes MySQL to copy the whole table

This is wrong on a couple levels. First it doesn't copy the whole table: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-create-index-...

However, it can take a while if MySQL is evaluating the consistency. But you can disable that with `SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0` which turns it into a metadata change (nearly instantaneous).

You still will need to check for violations, but you can do that in a more friendly-to-load manner, and of course will need to deal with any violations manually.

But that strategy is a good middle ground to all-or-nothing FKs.

Edit: Whoops, looks like I was wrong on the table-copy part. Per "Otherwise, only the COPY algorithm is supported." So it does copy the data when `FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1` (the default)
basically layerJS will reparse if it detects a change rigth inside one of its objects. This works for example in a vuejs app we create. If the framework actually rebuilds the whole DOM hierarchy the layerJS parse would need to be triggered manually. Let me know if you get into this situation so we can tackle it.
Perhaps a buying opportunity. Sounds like investors are being spiteful.
Maybe it was part of a very early version of The Dharma Initiative.
Yes, but it will also increase occupants and the experience of occupants.

If you put a fancy restaurant that sells gourmet popcorn, you raise the price of popcorn in general, and you can also increase the amount of people that eat popcorn.
Yeah. See https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/507#issuecomment-338... on how to do it in a performant way.
I was just pointing out a user flow that a crap load of people have used to become users. not sure why all the down voting. So, a lot of it is going to depend on how much in demand your app is.
I agree that there'd need to be an independent research body to get into more depth, otherwise everyone will be sharing based on biased perspectives or shallow data.
This is apparently a common practice, although rarely this blatant. Paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2479542

Paper finds that "firms that 'cast' their conference calls by disproportionately calling on bullish analysts tend to underperform in the future."
Felt very reminiscent to Skilling's infamous earnings call. I'd have to imagine any TSLA investors are very concerned after that performance.
>Companies need to make money off of those investments so the compounds that do succeeded might become insanely expensive. The entire process is pretty backwards and I know people who are biochemists in this field who get paid really shitty despite their important work. A lot of money goes to equipment, but a lot also goes to management and cronies in the shops that can fund this stuff.

science staff being underpaid relative to the value they provide is the norm. everyone knows the scientists are there for the love of it.

the equipment is pricey, sure. million dollar machines, yada yada yada.

but the marketing budget is far higher than the r&d budget. it isn't even close.

and yeah, it's a mess. from my experience on the inside, companies are willfully deceptive at all phases of the research and clinical trial process. failures are swept under the rug as much as humanly possible. especially if those failures endanger a real person.

if a person gets hurt in a trial, i guarantee you that there was knowledge of the risk that was drastically downplayed.

drug companies test tens of thousands of candidate drugs before moving to trials. in the last round of testing before trying to move to clinical trials, the drugs are typically very similar variants of each other. problems are found in most. the one candidate where problems aren't found, likely by luck, is the one that advances. survivorship bias is intentionally played up as evidence of validity. then, of course, the "black swan" negative event happens. stock price plummets.

cue statements regarding how much they care about trial patients, and the problem couldnt have been foreseen, etc etc.

but they knew all along that it would happen. it was happening to mice with the drug's sibling candidates which didn't make it to the clinic.
The exact same true is for hotels, only worse. ANYTHING that uses up space that is not used for housing is by definition increasing rent for everyone. Hotels have a much bigger effect than Airnb because you'll find hotels in all of the most expensive and densely populated cities. If you replaced all hotels with regular rental units, think about how much rents would go down.

To be more accurate, the report should say: NYC Renters paid extra thanks to ANYTHING that takes up space that is not a rental unit, especially hotels.
In the exact quote you gave, he says that SO is different from "wikis" in that the question is written before the answer.

When most people think "wiki", seeing answers before questions is certainly a common characteristic they could assign to the concept, but it's not what makes it a "wiki".

I could design a wiki that was text-only and say, "unlike wikis, we don't present photos", but that wouldn't make it not-a-wiki.
IIRC the foundation originally compared the RPi's CPU to a Pentium II running at 266 MHz, which seems about right to me.

IME/IMB startup is almost always CPU bound (to a single CPU thread, of course). Note that the Linux kernel also caches negative dent lookups, so these "is there something here?" stat()s will stay in the dentry cache.
If you're using it to make simple queries the benefit over REST is incremental. But you can use it to get in one request all the data it would take your API clients many REST requests to gather, and then the benefit can be dramatic.
It’s simplicity is probably what makes it the best choice.
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If you quit, the story ends there. If you mount a comeback, you can re-rewrite history and be the creator and savior of your project.
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An question/answer doesn't have to be marked "community wiki" for you to edit it.
Solely an issue with bitcoins algorithm? Given that you obviously can technically change the algorithm, but instead bitcoin folks choose to continue the environmental disaster and literally collectively burn millions of dollars into air every single day, to me it indicates that there are some other underlying issues very much there as well. But that may be just me.
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Yep, putty cac works very nice. The only downside I found compared to gpg agent is that cac does not forget PIN when the card is removed (gpg agent does that and I like it).
And more reliable too. The Stirling does have one huge advantage which is that it is entirely self contained.
Of course he does, doesn't want the people he's burned to comment.
A fire pit is fine as long as your boat is fairly wet, I believe.

You should pick up Kon-Tiki - those guys discovered a lot about ancient boating.
Unfortunately, Airbnb is probably the only way a middle-class family can earn money on investment properties. No one in their right mind would rent a $1,000,000 condo for (1% rule) $10,000.
Yes yes yes. People are trying to be polite by not starting a conversation with a demand, but it has the opposite effect.
"For each 1 percent of all residential units in a neighborhood listed on Airbnb, rents in that neighborhood went up 1.58 percent, Stringer said."

Correlation does not imply causation[1]. Looks to me this is one of the studies that I would label as "shallow" or "problematic".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
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Nice, relevant excerpt.

A while back I got very interested in Lucian Freud, moreso for the relationships he had with his portrait subjects rather than the portraits themselves. Long story short many of these relationships became romantic (many even led to children), but across both the romantic and non-romantic ones the subjects seemed to find Freud's keen (even selfish) interest in portraying them seductive. He could be demanding, cruel, temperamental, etc. but he was fundamentally a talented painter who was very simple to understand: he wanted to paint you, he was very interested in you, and didn't much care about how this affected you. For the reasons you outline, at least a broad subset of people find this kind of singular character (literally) attractive.
All aircraft have a cone-shaped nose, no? Are all aircraft with similar cone-shaped noses paying royalties to Boeing?
>"The Third Reich was a diagnosis regime, obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloging people by race, religion, politics, sexuality..."

It's never good to categorize people like that.

Many groups throughout history have done it for many different reasons, some less sinister than others, some with very good intentions in mind...

But ultimately it's not about the intention, it's about the mindset that accompanies putting infinitely complex individuals into neat little baskets.

It's obvious when we read about the Nazi's doing it that it's bad, but remember in the modern day when other groups try to do it - even with virtuous intentions - that it's still bad.
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My mistake. I have one entered, but I guess the email field is private. I've corrected it now
"Hey, from next year on, you need to pay your taxes with GovernmentCryptoCoin." Problem solved.