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The geniuses at AMC managed to lose over $480 million last year. They ran just a 2% operating margin ($101M operating profit from $5B+ revenue). They may in fact kill MoviePass by refusing to budge, but they would be shooting themselves in the foot doing so. Who else is generating demand for movie tickets at this scale?

According to their own earnings releases, AMC's USA per-screen attendance dropped from over 38,000 admissions per screen in 2016, to 29,808 in 2017.
http://investor.amctheatres.com/file/Index?KeyFile=392398945
Thanks for the good read - question @Justin: you mention that you can essentially set milestones to work towards your seed valuation. Is that a starting point? Do investors usually have strong input here to guide the discussion of "how much should I raise?"
I then find it difficult to believe that you cannot think of productive applications of cryptocurrencies.

As someone who researches self organizing systems, especially in the network space, I have seen numerous applications of mesh network organization based on a blockchain-like decentralized ledger that adds a new dimension after well over a decade long plateau in development. Semi-centralized blockchains utilizing proof-of-stake and other methods seem to be valuable ways to add transparency to certain government functions (such as voting), publishing trade records, and clearing transactions over an ACH-like network (which is currently monitored manually by the Fed and is a growing vulnerability in the global financial network). To dismiss the whole space is to lack vision, or perhaps to be dejected about not being in the financial position you could have been in given the early opportunity.
That's super-interesting to me because I came out of undergrad with $0 in debt... and I came out of dental school with $280,000 in debt.
I think parent meant Discourse: https://www.discourse.org/

https://www.discourse.org/about (FWIW)
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Yesterday and today look identical to me?
If we were serious about finding the next Einstein we would be attempting to maximize the pairing of individuals who could produce such a person. This may someday be feasible, as genetic testing and online dating begin to intersect, but the time is not yet.
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Wait...are you suggesting going to a domain registrar when I want to give my printer a hostname?
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I know you're joking, but you raise an interesting point. I honestly think porn is potentially harmful, and having stopped watching it myself, understand why 44% would too. It's brutally extreme depiction of sex almost desensitises the brain to the actual experience, at least in my experience. Especially with the endorphins reinforcing the behaviour, it can get close to an addiction.
Makes sense... Thanks. There should be a law...
We could build a high-speed Maglev rail line over the Bering Straights to Asia and another one to South America...

But yah, open the borders. That's the only immediate solution.

The 90's had our greatest economic growth, and the borders were basically wide open then.
Was this in any way protected or did you just watch network requests in your browser, see an endpoint, and curl it? I'm not diminishing your discovery, just wondering if it was utterly trivial to use...
Prices would only go up marginally a few percentage points, but that can be enough to break certain budgets especially when fresh food like this is already more expensive than processed and unhealthy alternatives.

You also shouldn't treat poor people as a single group. Yes, some poor people will be receiving these higher wages but no all. There are still people lost in the transition just like there would be people lost in the transition waiting for innovation from Eli Whitney.
Michael Chertoff, former head of homeland security, accepted a quarter million dollars to "consult" for Rapiscan (body scanners), then helped them secure a $118M contract with the TSA. Corrupt as hell.

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/27/tsa-body-scanner-lobbyis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
nah look at the white banner under the header graphic.
You already hit this point but: the Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights, is about defining a legal structure of government. We can all agree that privacy is a "universal right," but neither history nor legal precedent supports that interpretation unequivocally (even with regard to the government specifically; you can read some really interesting Constitutional history about the "right to privacy" and how it arose as a concept in the late 1800s; Brandeis's "The Right to Privacy" is a fascinating historical document"). The only true remedy to this problem is laws enacted by Congress. We need to stop talking about this in a wishy-washy idealistic way and start talking about realistic, precise, and legal solutions, which means enacting specific laws.
Didn't he also wash his feet in the toilet?
George Eastman, father of Kodak, was passionate about oral health --particularly for kids. It's why we have an Eastman Institute in Sweden. Not everybody knows it was funded by the Eastman!
Not to get too deep into the weeds but troops require logistics. Food, gear, etc. Aircraft Carriers are the great equalizer, as they provide mobile shears for cutting those lines. The USA still has the most and that's why we keep it that way.
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> Yesterday and today look identical to me?

Yesterday's had the carrier logos prominently displayed. Today's has not carrier logos that I can see.
https://kellergrover.com/news/privacy-violations/ok-record-p...

I think this would require that a grant of permission is transferable.

- Employee grants permission to employer to record as term of employment.

- Employer grants Google blanket permission to record calls.

Do you know if it works that way?

Also, any business that is recording its employees must notify customers. This would be another thing they would have had to edit out of the call.
"extortion and money laundering charges against the owners of a website that publishes mugshot photos and charges a fee to remove them."

Isn't that blackmail, not extortion?
This reminds me of the Ooty toy train. Despite the name, it's not a toy, but a meter gauge train that goes between the plains and the hill station of Ooty / Udhagamandalam, in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India. Moves quite slowly. Good fun riding it. I've been on it years ago.

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

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

Images of it:

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=ooty+toy+train+images
Interesting perspective on what Agile is supposed to accomplish. From my anecdotal experience, it does not however, nor do I believe it will change.
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I never had it (or didn’t notice) until I heard of it. Much like “exploding head syndrome”, it appears to be slightly contagious (suggestible). Even then, it wasn’t the usual “falling out”, but rather my jaw squeezing tighter and tighter, unable to open, until my teeth began to crack. I think I was really just grinding my teeth in my sleep after a night of drinking.
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If things don't go awry, you'll be paying her half of your post-tax income, and vice versa. So what's the concern about paying a quarter?

Since you say you can afford it anyway, as you make "quite a lot of money", and millions of people with much less raise children, it seems as trough you don't want desperately want to have kids, but perhaps you like the idea but don't want to spend money on other people in your family.
Historically the Hispanic and African populations were in the US a good deal before the Chinese.
I notice a lot of value judgments on here with respect to the original posting. In no way was it a comment on the job, frustration with the interview process itself, or a comment on my or the interviewer's proficiency. I was merely curious whether feedback is common.

I've had a reasonably long career and have been blessed (and perhaps lucky) to have gotten almost every job I've interviewed for, so I wasn't quite sure whether feedback is the norm or not, as I haven't been in the position to assess that.

The summary, though, seems to be not to expect feedback, at least not post-interview, if you are not made an offer. This is understandable from a liability perspective. More professional companies will, after an interview, at least notify you (or your recruiter) that they have decided to pass on your candidacy. And finally, lack of feedback is not necessarily indicative of a poor, nor a great, interview. Any number of factors may have come into play, including, as far as one knows, say, that at the last minute the CTO decided to hire his cousin.
That's the Microsoft recommendation. I think they're suggesting to use either split-view DNS (i.e., have DNS respond with internal vs external results depending on the source address of the requestor) or use a subdomain for internal hosts (e.g., corp.example.com). I don't think they mean to just buy a public domain and only use it internally.

I hope ...
I find it somewhat worrysome that the hassle of obtaining and maintaining certs is now handwaved away with saying "we now have let's encrypt".

I think it's important to keep in mind that even if their certificates are free, they are still a permanent dependency of your site. Moreover the fact that they can offer certificates for free works because of the concerted industry effort going on currently to move the whole web to https.

They are well-supported but, for sites with no budget for commercial certs, will still stay a single point of failure. If they should, after the transition to 100% https is completed, not bevable to offer free certs anymore, what exactly would be the plan B?
One of the criteria is that it has sufficient mass to reach hydrostatic equilibrium.
Why would he, (neo), have any target from the law on his back? He wasn't sharing or selling the information. LocationSmart should be the ones getting fucked.
Good. I hope that companies trying to weaponize drones go lose money.
Quite the editorialized headline compared to that of the actual article.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are not really very mature these days either. Kids are generally more sheltered, less independent, and have less experience managing their own lives than previous generations. That is why universities now have huge bureaucracies to deal with students who are physically adults but emotionally unprepared to manage their lives and take responsibility for their behavior, actions, and decisions without parents guiding everything.

So taking a year or two to figure out how to be an adult is not the worst approach to take.

If more people decide to delay or seek alternatives to college, the higher ed bubble will burst. Universities will not be able to afford the administrative staff they are carrying if enrollments decline.
Because it sets baseline standards. Yes, I think everyone knows the US does not have the best healthcare in the world. But I also think it's 100% appropriate to say if you want to practice medicine in this country then you must meet our standards. Just like a drivers license might not be valid in any country you visit outside your own.
Definitely. I think you are hitting on the same point that majos did. The best answer I have is the reason I did a PhD: freedom. It gave me many hours of unstructured time to explore problems I was interested in, which I would not have been able to do while working full time (I tried).
For context:

In 2017 Intel buys Mobileye in $15.3B deal

MobileEye is mostly based on classical ML and vision algos (just like Boston Robotics) rather than DL.
I certainly don't encourage it, not least because it's illegal, but there is only one way I see this getting fixed. Someone publishing the location data of members of Congress and federal agencies' heads,revealing sensitive information, e.g. an undisclosed meeting or repeated visits to an unexpected embassy or overnight stays with a young, good-looking aide.
Are you not an anxious person? It used to be more common when I was younger and less self-aware, when I didn't know how to deal with anxiety or even that I experienced it to a significant degree. They are rare dreams for me now but very vivid in a specific way (I feel them in my body). The body thing seems to be common for emotive dreams.

Most of my dreams on any given night involve some kind of "mission" in a realistically-rendered futuristic compound, without much of a body feeling unless I'm swimming or flying/falling. These dreams, I think, are a reflection of the way I think of my future-- kind of a way to resolve the map I have in my head of my trajectory.

Then I have dreams where it's very clearly about the past. Usually steeped in mood (not necessarily emotion) and a sense of a cohesive "theme", which really illustrates the fruits of introspective moments during waking time.

Then there are people who have dreams regularly filled with symbology, which is one of the common conceptions of what dreams are. Symbol dreams are rare for me, but I definitely pay attention when they happen.

Ultimately I think it comes down to abstractions. Maybe when you wake up in the morning try to figure out what your dreams were abstracting, and then you'll notice a pattern. There are abstractions within the abstractions too. Very very intriguing stuff, like you said. Dreams are more important than our culture allows for, I think.
Agreed regarding the "radio silence." This at least seems very unprofessional, especially if a company (as in this case) has indicated that you are "very much in the running."
For whatever it's worth, this service was unable to find any location for my phone that only connects over 2g, but had no problem tracking my 4g phone with startling accuracy.
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>The solution, he says, was to tweak the AirPort software so that it seemed to be operating in Japan instead of the United States. Japanese Wi-Fi uses some frequencies that are not permitted in the U.S.
Which is a good idea, until we remember that most residential "local" networks have dynamic IPs. Honestly the best way to deal with this is to have a dynamic dns record pointing to a (sub)domain you own, then get a cert through that.
The accredited colleges.

If you get accepted to their program, it's free for you.

Accreditation means auditing to standards and performance.
I have these dreams sometimes and it is a terrible feeling. I also dream of getting shot, which is a similar sensation. You feel broken and wake up happy that you are not.
This could be used to ditch the Python interpreter and distribute Python binaries for Win/Linux/Mac. When will standard library, exceptions, and inheritance support be added?
NordVPN -- it's one of the best IMO for security/company location. I also made my decision via the spreadsheets and analysis from the already-mentioned https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-section/

It's $79 for two years, but they also have per-month subscriptions.
Damn, i took acutane and never knew it could affect a person's teeth. Oh well !
> Who will pick strawberries? Who will clean your hotel room? Etc.

There is a seasonal / migrant worker visa for this reason. For instance, near me, Kiawah Island's resorts are partly staffed with Jamaican guest workers because the seasonal nature of the job. In high school I worked as a bagger at a grocery store on another island that was incredibly seasonal, so we had Russian guest workers during the summers.

Some jobs probably just wouldn't get done without either A) a wage increase or B) guest workers, e.g. particularly brutal agricultural tasks. We can allow the necessary workforce in for these tasks if need be.

> It's the classic who will do "X" dirty job argument.

The poor.

Having grown up in an area with a large Hispanic influx, they did. I currently live in an area with little to no Hispanics, but we do have a lot of poor African-Americans. They do the jobs I grew up seeing Central and South Americans work.

The problem with the illegal influx from southern nations, is they can also crowd out native blue collar markets by working for less, and are willing to live an impoverished standard of living. We should not be forsaking our own countrymen so we can get cheap lawn care from a wage-slave underclass living in third-world conditions on American soil.
Right now, children is sort of theoretical for you. That's fine, as it's like that for everybody.

Once you have them and have fallen in love with them, you'll find that their happiness is worth working things out with their mother, rather than breaking up. If you can't man up enough to put up with her shit (assuming there is any) and you do break up, the money will be going to your kids, who you'll love, and giving that money won't be as objectionable as you imagine.

For me, I used to break up with women over silly arguments that embarrass me now to think about. Now, when such emotions surface, it always leads to me thinking about my kids and what a break-up would do to them. When you have kids, you're in a relationship with their mother and with them also.
When you're mad at her, you're still having fun with them, and that lets you work through your issues with her, as their happiness includes her presence. The same applies to her, if you're being an asshole for awhile. So breaking up after kids is not as likely as you fear.
About a decade ago there was a tremendously promising discovery. A genetically modified variant of the caries bacteria that is the major cause of tooth decay was created which, instead of metabolizing glucose into acid, metabolized it into something inert which also happened to be poisonous to the caries bacteria that excrete acid. A 45 second rinse with a small amount of liquid doped with these bacteria would mean permanent lack of tooth decay.

This would, of course, eliminate 90% or so of the entire dental industry in a single blow. I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not, but the doctor researching it lost funding and the pursuit of turning it into a product or available treatment was abandoned.
And also Irish. Despite being white and christian the Irish faced considerable discrimination around the turn of the century.
So that would mean that the person asking the bot to give consent or would that mean Google is the one giving consent? Or is the person giving permission to Google to give consent? Would Google give permission to the recording of the call?
No clue! Ultimately it's completely unrealistic to expect to siphon off users from anywhere, instead we should have this as a complementary community I guess.
Was the demo that amazing though ? I feel it was full of tiny imperfections. (Not to be a nihilist, it was a big step forward for sure.)

Anecdotally, I've been told that there were cases were the human would react by saying "no, you are not a robot, you are human!" when they were told that the caller was a bot, but I haven't been able to verify this.
Could be the ones who bought bitcoins at $3, or $30, or $300.
The Chinese immigrants were not (and still are not) particularly religious, and certainly didn't have a religion that promoted extremism and placed them at odds with the existing inhabitants. Other Asian immigrants in the US were also either not religious, or (like with Koreans and Filipinos) adopted the same religion as the dominant culture.

The fundamental problem, as I see it, is religion.
I think that's due to immigration - not birthrates.
I've seen a couple of documentaries about how the inhabitants use that system. Though I forgot wether they have some signaling system, they do have passing loops (which they operate by driving there, getting out and manually perform the switch).

Also since the area is 100% flat eyesight should be enough.
Right, if the cell company says user consent is required it ought to text them "X is requesting permission to track your location, reply YES to allow"

And provide a straightforward mechanism of checking what has had access, what still has access, and a way to revoke it.
Yes. For instance, my father-in-law has a PhD but worked as a janitor for a while when he first came to the US, until he could teach himself enough English to land a better job.
Anyone should be able to write code.

Accepting a pull request (code reviews) should require training.

Launching code requires even more training.
I'd say that the limits of AI and Machine Learning were succinctly captured by an episode of The Prisoner back in 1967:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljGH07Unfe8
How can you say whether having children is "financially wise"? Accumulating money is not an end in itself. How much is a child worth? If you don't have children, the long-term ROI of your family. Wealthy people spend exorbitant sums on their lives, while poorer people raise more children with less money. Which financially wiser?
yes, it's time we all ackowledge and internalize the fact that our priorities as a nation have changed away from economic prosperity for all.

we're full-on protectionists now. immigrants threaten what we got (a high-status nation dominated by wealthy white people), so they got to go, despite being the primary driver of our properity.

as a bonus, wealth disparity will only accelerate as the economic pie stops growing, because the existing capital holders have great advantage in capturing the remaining income streams, further driving down birth rates.

meanwhile, countries like china and india have tons of economic headroom because their populations are 4-5 times that of the US, but at lower economic levels. those countries will eventually eclipse the US if we stay on this path.
Machine Learning is very different than software engineering. There is no reason that being good at one makes you good at the other.

Does being a carpenter with vast knowledge of tools give you the ability to build a rocket that can fly to mars?

Machine Learning is very very math based - the nitty gritty matters when you want to do something custom.

There are many free pre-trained models that can get you started easily for defined tasks. Custom work requires much more knowledge.
Fun fact. Stone-age level tech people or hunter gatherers have perfect teeth. Their teeth meet perfectly, they have no wisdom teeth issues for example (in fact they just have more normal teeth than civilised people)

The reason is that our jaws are actually too small for our teeth. Their jaws are the right size because the jaw grows to its correct size in response to chewing when you are a baby. We dont chew enough as babies.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150204144653.h...
> I guess that right was targeted against the government, but it seems it should apply to these government-size corporations and multi-nationals, as well.

I could see a corporation tracking people for good. E.g. A travel agency that detects where it's clients are in route until they get to their final destination, and automatically reroutes for flight delays, or traffic jams. That would be something I might pay for.
Seriously. Stories abound about millennials (or anybody) not willing to do manual labor, waiting for higher-end jobs.

And it makes sense. We pay for everyone to go to 12 years of public school, learning calculus, history, chemistry, literature, etc.., only to work picking strawberries for the rest of their lives?

Fuck that.

The American labor force isn't designed for these kinds of jobs. I can't imagine any smartphone addicted millennial to do manual labor. In fact, we'd be more honest about our economy if we actually banned these jobs for Americans, and only allowed unskilled immigrants to do them, and deal with it from there.