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I'm starting a new role next week and that's exactly the schedule I negotiated.

The mix, I think, is good on a social level. When I used to work 100% remote, I found myself walking to the grocery store just to see other people.
Segregation still has a vast number of proponents today and it's actively practiced. Every time you hear someone proclaim that some thing or action is cultural appropriation, they're arguing in favor of cultural segregation, which makes general segregation worse. If you can't share / touch / learn from / blend / use other culture, you end up segregated. It's nothing more than a modern form of forcing cultures to not blend or touch, as racists 60 years ago would have demanded just the same. At some point the anti-appropriation people need to be aggressively called out for being segregationists and marked morally for it as we do other similarly backwards racial segregationists.
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It's not FUD if someone posts an opposing viewpoint. My point was that some of the terminology used in this community is rather disingenuous. Python has a lot of strengths, but let's also be honest about its weaknesses.
I wonder if there will ever come a time when the biggest danger to SV from Europe is competitors, rather than regulators.

It may be that competitors can't become more of a threat till regulators become less of one. It's hard for a society to focus simultaneously on multiple things, and regulation and startups seem not merely orthogonal, but opposed.
Have you ever seen the accounting side of this?

I've previously seen accounting docs at a major defense firm I worked for. They tallied the exact dollar amount spent on each employee's square footage of office space on a monthly basis.

Furthers the argument you make.
It's not like that in every region of Europe. Though that is what I would expect getting in Oslo, Norway.
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Amazon got into the business of selling goods online, but it turns out that renting their computers to others is way more profitable
Which European country are you referring to?
>So a deal is a deal, if one agrees to the terms of a deal (oral or written), it must be honoured

Sure thing. The deal was for an album cover. Perhaps $1500 in 1970s money is a fair sum for that, even for an iconic album.

Did the deal also include T-shirts, posters, and exclusive prints of the said cover signed by the band's front man?

That's where the contention is. Some people would say yes - work for hire is work for hire. Some people would say no. Pre-1978 copyright law is one side, later versions - on the other.

A deal must be honored - so it was, and then it was not.
In over 28 years in Nuclear Plant Operations I've never seen, or heard of, an incident that could be attributed to cost cutting. If anything nuke plants could be more profitable if they did cut some costs. Control room operators are, in some ways, over trained after obtaining a licence from the Feds to operate that plant. They then, and forever, spend one week in 6 in 40 hours of training. That could easily be halved after holding a license for 5 years or more. The admin size of each plant has ballooned over the years, in some cases more than tripled. Again, cost cutting is not on the list of nuclear plant troubles.
That’s not a sustainable way to run an industry though. Who decides what constitutes wildly successful? Who decides how many percent and who gets what share of it? Whoever went on and did the work to make the project so successful would have had other costs in doing so, they must have budgeted it out, they might even sell on the rights to the project at some point as happened in this case. Is it fair to then hit the new owners with extra costs out of the blue when they already paid for full rights and appear to be fully legally entitled to them?
Further, they only compared Rowling to three other authors and Rowling ended up second in at least one of the tests. The analysis likely did not prove anything by itself.
In what sense doesn't it supply power? If demand for power exceeds supply, then the frequency starts to go down. "Maintaining frequency" and "supplying the demanded power" are two different expressions of the same problem.
The 90% cost reduction claim disturbs me because I find it quite ambiguous. The original quote in the article is:

>it reduced the cost of the grid service that it performs by 90%

Let's examine "the grid service that it performs". What does this mean? Which "grid service" is it performing?

I imagine the "grid service" it performs is that of inputting energy: it's a source of electricity into the grid. So the claim can be re-written as:

>[the battery] reduced the cost of <putting energy into the grid> by 90%

Reduced, compared to what, a coal-powered steam turbine power station?
Is lithium hard to acquire? Sure, it's costly to mine, but it's not like there are shortages. Besides, it seems that Australia is a major producer of lithium.
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Not sure why this is currently being downvoted, the U.S. does seem to be relatively less effective at enforcing anti-trust laws. That's hurting American companies as well and one example of it is included in the article:

“Europe is acting to enforce antitrust laws where the U.S. is not,” said Jeremy Stoppelman, the chief executive of Yelp, who feels that American regulators dropped the ball when they decided not to pursue a case against Google in 2013 (Yelp is a longtime Google antagonist). “Ironically, many of the complainants in the E.U. antitrust case against Google are U.S. companies, pursuing justice in Europe precisely because the U.S., has not acted,” he said in an email.
Betting OP meant "on contract" versus a 1099 contractor.

Maybe I'm wrong. If I'm not, he/she has very little say in their environment. At least that's my experience.
You cannot wear the numbers off the HP calculators. They go all the way through the key.
Doesn't matter to me what he got paid. If he wanted royalties, too, he should have negotiated that into the agreement, and he probably would have been paid even less of an upfront amount. He's not the one exposing himself to the risk involved with creating the project. By taking the fixed rate, he had a guaranteed return on his investment and didn't have to worry about the success or failure of the album.
That's really just your own lack of culture. You should give it a listen, it's pretty good.
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The Model S came out in what, 2012? So by your own numbers it took 4 years to get to 2000/wk. 9 months is killin it!
As I've stated in the article, it's about the mindset you take and not what is objectively true. You're not helping minorities by pointing out that their success in life will be mostly due to luck, you're just giving them excuses to not try harder.
A company is free to align themselves with any goal they wish to have.

They see that their strategy aligns with the majority of their users and the user's they wish to attract.

You have the freedom to not use their product if you don't align with them.

If you're not from the US what country are you from that would have a benefit from eliminating net neutrality?

What are your reasons for not supporting it?

The argument is whether net neutrality is for the common good or not.

Are you saying the only companies that can take a stance are ISPs? And they can lobby governments but an independent company cannot?
There's a big difference between regulation that affects all players fairly and equally (like safety codes requiring buildings be built to certain specs, requiring insurance, food labeling laws, etc.), and regulation like antitrust which affects only select companies that are successful and meet unpublished post-facto and mostly arbitrary criteria.
> My parents bought me the TI SR-52 when it came out and it was the coolest thing I could imagine.
> I wore the numbers off the keycaps on that thing.

Wouldn't happen on the HP-35. The keys were double-injected, meaning that the symbols on the keys went all the way through.
The single biggest problem with reparations, is that it would bankrupt several of Europe's leading economies, those that were responsible for hundreds of years of slavery and the forced transport of millions of African slaves to North and South America. As the nation most responsible for African slavery, the UK would be effectively economically destroyed by reparations. Europe would do everything it could manage, to refuse and dodge its overwhelming responsibility for slavery, including refusing to pay the trillions of dollars it would properly owe under reparations.
I’m Danish, but it’s like this in all of Scandinavia. Most of Western Europe offer great benefits though. That’s part of Macrons problem in France, because they haven’t managed to reform their institutions and it’s really hard to have a functional economy when everyone is off on paid leave. ;p

The pay is also for actual engineers with a candidate degree. It’s around $40000-$50000 + a 15% pension if your education is only academy or bachelor level.
No, it's not useless, often i want to know what's the type of a intermediate binding without looking up all the functions/exprs that transformed an input to it, often an editor plugin helps with this, but otherwise it's real pain to understand some parts (this is a problem with rust, lsp server doesn't help with this, but for ocaml merlin works beautifully).
How many times are we going to see outrage news that would lead us to believe a company is on the brick of disaster, yet the opposite occurs. Instead of using emotions, let me present facts with stock prices:

United Airlines passenger pulled off PR disaster stock was up 13% 3 months later.

Facebook cambridge analytica at lows at $160. Today $FB closed at $186.99.

Tesla report of death while car was in autopilot and public outrage over Elon's handling of investor quarterly call. May 3rd $TSLA trades down to $285. Today $TSLA closed at $301.

Apple, all analysts go bullish saying X is not selling, suppliers reporting down, consumers complaining about minor details, the end is near for Apple. Trades down to $160 April 27th. Instead Apple crushes quarter, huge $100B stock buyback, divy increase... up 15%. Cook praises Tax reform.

In nearly every circumstance where public outrage and news blasts a solid US company for some minor incident, it has been profitable to buy the dip. I can provide many more examples if so desired.
It's not hilly.

In any case, the trails were laid over a former rail track, so the trails are very flat[1] - never steeper than 2% grade.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Valley_Trail
There are things that are true that don't lead to good results. A nihilist atheist who sees no meaning in life is probably objectively correct is his assessment of the world, but if he ends up killing himself because of it then that true fact wasn't really useful, was it? There are tons of other situations that are similar and I think that luck is one of them.
Down. Functional but over-engineered.

I don’t like wondering if the page will just hang or go blank when I touch one small thing.
Does this happen in software too? Would Git be languishing unknown on SourceForge if it hadn't been written by Torvalds?

Edit: I'm sure it's a big factor in app stores.
Does that really change much? Minecraft still grew a ton more and is still a big game. Microsoft also got to use overseas money to pay for it.
In a lot of places pumped hydro is at capacity. There's only so many rivers, but you can generally put batteries anywhere.
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The current automobile production is over 70 million/year. The battery capacity for a single car ranges from 30-100 kWh. The current middle class is offering 60kWh (Model3, Bolt, Leaf 2019). So if we assume only 30 kWh/car at the end of the useful battery life, we get about 2 TWh of used battery capacity every year - though that point of time is quite in the future, as batteries are expected to last at least 10 years, if not more. As a comparison, the daily energy usage of Germany is about 1.6 TWh.
Keep in mind, profit might be 5% of yearly rev (not crazy for young businesses), in which case that would be more than half of their yearly profit.
This is true, but there is even debate about what can be considered harm producing. Boudrillard, for example, considers terrorism as not contributing to this cause, as terrorism only seeks to strengthen the systems of control (think: Patriot Act after 9/11, TSA, DHS). He argues that theoretical terrorism, that is, ideas that dismantle our abstract cultural structures, to be our only option.
This happened to an ex of mine. While we were together she was asked to do the album artwork for a top international-name stadium-filling band.

I persuaded her to charge £10k, which was around what she earned a year. She was going to charge much less. Neither of us considered future revenue from licensing or merchandise, so it was signed as a one-off work-for-hire deal. The manager still grumbled about how pushy she was being.

The imagery has appeared on countless merch items since. It’s hard to estimate the economic value, but it was surely a lot more than £10k.

She bought herself a new mattress and took a couple of weeks off.

Unlike OP’s artist, she never expected more. Creatively, it was a bit of a side project. But the truth is the band could have paid £5k or £10k a year in licensing fees without even noticing, so there’s something rather sad about it all.
If you spend those $2bn in tangible (and in some cases intangible) stuff that is added to the balance sheet, you will still have $2bn of GAAP profit (and will be taxed on it).

There are many ways to compare AAPL and AMZN. Another angle: one is trading at 5 times book value and the other at 25 times book value.
When something happens in these plants, it's not like a power line is cut off and so the fridge goes out for a few weeks.

You end up with large aread becoming inhabitable for hundreds of years, surrounding land and underground water contaminated, loss of human and natural habitat life from hard to document illnesses, etc.

Are you suggesting cutting costs in nuk plants as an efficient population control technique?
Fortunately, people have crunched the numbers:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-a...

The Coalition doesn't want cheap - they've spun coal so hard it's no longer politically tenable to unspin it.
Potentially

It actually puts me off writing some OSS libraries as it’s hard to know if anyone will appreciate them. If you already have an audience you know you’ll get some feedback and initial users / contributers.
It's clearly explained in the article it's frequency stability it's talking about.

>When an issue happens or maintenance is required on the power grid in Australia, the Energy Market Operator calls for FCAS (frequency control and ancillary services) which consists of large and costly gas generators and steam turbines kicking in to compensate for the loss of power.
Sorry, that doesn't make any sense. We have no pressing need for additional baseload capacity at the moment. The problem is entirely in high-demand times, and that is entirely sourced from dispatchable generation. This is mostly gas and hydro in Australia, and the price of gas drives the price, given the way the AEMO bidding market works.

Renewable energy only takes pressure off this demand (i.e. solar is fairly well correlated with hot weather, so actually helps a lot in reducing the peak on hot days (presumably from air-conditioning etc.) by hundreds of megawatts).
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Since you're not responsible for the content kinda (you can remove bad posts). Most you can really do is work on making the site architecture and usability better, but content is up to users.
NASA* not Nasa. Sorry, but it bothers me.
The article didn't even mention the field where the effect seems to be biggest: visual arts. The value of a painting depends almost entirely on the fame of the artist, as I understand it.
That's not the same, takes years and talent to play a saxophone.

I'd definitely pay him better if he was featured in one of my tracks and I kept getting that sort of royalties a year.

It's all a matter of respect for the art and not simply handing pizza flyers, as some people may think.

He also said that the cheque bounce anyway, so he wasn't paid, plus "If I had received pots of money, I wouldn't have known what to do. It might have destroyed me."

To complete, he played a tribute to the guy who died.

Hopefully you'll hand some flyers out when your ex boss dies too right.
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I'm founder of https://www.fundo.co/ and some things sound terribly familiar. However, I think it starts with deciding who you make your product for in this case, as application of this kind of product is tremendous (imagine making a list of things you can do with Excel).

As mentioned here, I don't see this razor-sharp focus in Fieldbook, which could be the reason of missing traction?

Fundo is about to undergo a major transformation, exactly for the reason of simplicity..
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The HP-48G/GX was also my calculator of choice and I really disliked the later HP49. However, I then tried the HP50G, and was instantly hooked. Once you get over the differences in key layout, it's like a HP-48GX loaded with tons of useful software, in a slightly better form factor. I now have a HP50G and a HP-48G, but I never use the older model.

On iOS, I use the Emu50G app, which works, but could really use some improvements and optimizations. It's a fork of emu48.

Incidentally, I think the HP-50G is the last good engineering calculator. I'm puzzled as to how people get around without one these days: don't tell me about python, scipy and other similar shells: there is nothing else out there that can do so much, so efficiently.
I'm sure it does. But it goes both ways. Because if you're famous people will start using it based on trust and if it turns out to be crap people will feel betrayed and be angry and you'll lose the trust.
I've had it happen once, sort of, on a relatively small collection. Several seconds' delay due to the use of foreach, that were actually annoying production users.

The issue was that the collection being iterated over was a non-generic .NET 1.0 DataTable. Using a foreach loop would implicitly box and then re-cast each object, while the for loop directly accessed the correctly typed .Item() and did not need to do that.

Ironically, the body of the loop was a fairly tricky logistics algorithm I had just written, so I had every reason to assume the problem was on the inside. Imagine my surprise when I changed it to a for loop - strictly to access the index and print out some timings - and watched the procedure suddenly become instant...
This understanding of reparations is backwards. Reparations are not a democratic process, there is no need to persuade voters to vote for reparations. Reparations is a legal process. They are executed in courts. Especially in cases of "forced labor" laws both Federal and international have been quite clear that reparations are required. The only "problem" here is that US courts have consistently claimed that the centuries of slavery -- probably the greatest crime in the history of the republic -- are in fact a "political question." (It's worth noting that the question of standing is an aside. Former slaves themselves, nevermind their descendants, were denied restitution and sometimes killed for attempting to seek it.)

> Politics based on race only end up dividing people and used by those in power.

This is very, very easy for people who have never been victims of racism to say. The self-serving backwardness of this logic doesn't just violate basic moral precepts it also ignores the most basic legal precepts. If a group of people are subjected to centuries of abuse they should be awarded redress. It doesn't get more basic than that. To say that now is the time to "look beyond race" and ignore the the many crimes is just abhorrent.

(Ironically the whole situation does highlight that the worst crimes evade justice. If the slaves had been part of a foreign country that was conquered and enslaved then there would be no question about reparations. But because the slaves were themselves "Americans," where slavery was conviently not a crime, they will likely never be awarded justice.)
It's almost as if journalists aren't actual stock market analysts. Media in general suffers from believing their own lies. News rooms hype up stories with outrage based on "it is said that..." kind of stories, which then generate clicks, and somehow think this has anything to do with companies bottom lines.
Coal is not cheap though. Or to be more accurate: coal has a bad ROI, which is what drives investment decisions. At this point in time, solar (using Chinese panels) has an ROI that outstrips coal power by a lot, and has less risk (panels start producing a lot faster and can be expanded online - a coal plant sits there costing money for 5 years till it comes online).

The problem for both the US and Australia is that private investors have no appetite for coal, because the same money can just continuously install solar and get a better return - with no real problems with environmental lobbies, access to fuel, or anything. We're probably a few years away from grid expansions being built on the basis that they'll make money from people installing solar farms in the new areas.

"Ah! But China is subsidizing it's solar industry!" you say - well "who cares?" says I, the investor who China is effectively paying to build solar plants, and who gets to take a bunch of good PR from it.
If history has taught us anything, its that nobody needs a philosophical rationale to become a freeloader.
I think, as a rule, you're better off extracting OSS libraries from things you've built. That way you know that you are already appreciating them.
There's nothing stopping the implementation from doing that, if the authors of the stdlib thought it made sense:

def __add__(self, other):
if isinstance(other, str):
return str(self) + other
...

Again, my point is that the distinction is mostly library design.
Nuclear power plants are not clean. Far from it. Radioactive waste is still an unsolved problem.
How is nuclear power „clean“ with all the radioactive waste that needs to go somewhere when burnt down?
"After I departed in 2012, the public interest seemed to die down, and hockey stick growth along with it."

lol. Are you trying to imply you were the life of the party? And Klout's business model was clearly pilfer everyone's data from other sites that were "linked."
I had the opposite experience. We had a large client application that was too slow, with no obvious bottleneck on the flame graph. I replaced all the functional iterators by for loops among other similar optimisations, and improved the performance by a factor of 50. If you use programming constructs that are 50 times slower on average, your program will be 50 times slower on average.
> Black Southern accents aren't very different from White lower- to lower-middle-class Scots-Irish dialects

As a Scot who has been to southern US, I strongly disagree. There are a number of accents and dialects in Scotland, and not one of them is even remotely reminiscent of a southern US accent or dialect.
In a Tesla battery pack there is only about 8 kg of lithium used - less than lead in a normal car battery. As lithium is a rather common element, it shouldn't be too difficult to mine it in the neccesary amount. Current mining capacitly is set by the comparatively low demand before electric cars.
> ... its value doesn't doesn't immediately change until it is full.

ah ! that's vanilla impedance (i.e. Z) in play then, nothing parasitic about it afaik :)
Ah, very dependent on the jurisdiction, then. I thought it was more or less similar everywhere.