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> Many things are so well crafted here, because of a cultural emphasis on producing things with quality.

I think this, at least partially, is the culprit behind being slow. Quality requires time, years of practice, sweat, dedication and experience. And it works really well for craftsmanship. Japan is well known for it's craft, art, cuisine and aesthetics - even in trivial cases like design of manholes or disposable shopping packages. Unfortunately, the same doesn't seem to work for technology, especially for IT. Learn a language/framework today, forget tomorrow, rapidly switch to more efficient solution, keep up with industry standards and everyday learn something new. There's no place for "learn once - master whole life" concept in current enterprise environment. Maybe with exclusion of basic principles. Everything else change on a daily basis. Yet, Japanese web pages tend to look like messy amateur pages on GeoCities 20 years ago and financial institutions wouldn't change for ages (actually, their online pages looks even worse.)

I do disagree about restaurant lines, though. I've yet to see so well organized crowd. And people do know what to order when they reach the counter because in most places they have a menu in their hands long before they get there. And any other lines, on that matter, especially when you compare Western train/metro stations.
Yes. I got my configuration reset and needed to set up some features again.

This is an example of what you get on startup, and cannot be skipped: https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/996391978957987845
Even in the regulation-stricken UK, it's fully legal to work from your private home (so called "clerical" work).

And fyi, something being against the contract is not automatically illegal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYf_TBLnPQE just try it once
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYf_TBLnPQE just try it once friends
feathers are more likely to get stuck in resin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYf_TBLnPQE
Thousands of openHAB smart homes are exposed on the internet with no auth
To be honest, we don't know either, so the agnostic viewpoint (compared to atheistic) would be that it is equally valid. Either you believe in random chance or you believe in God.

I'm always perfectly happy when someone calls the big bang the moment of creation. It could have been.
So important.

I know too many people who get into trouble because they don't confront others and hope problems will solve themself
> That sort of thing has absolutely no place in any organization.

That's kind of funny. Many (most?) organizations are exactly like that: willing to break the law in order to get ahead. There would be no Uber and no AirBnb otherwise; there wouldn't even be a Microsoft, either. And those are the most visible and prominent firms.

I worked at a big consulting firm in the 90s, the corporate culture there and then was total indifference to laws, regulations, morals or even common sense. The only thing that mattered was billable hours.

Granted, those companies don't deal with people's health, and it's normal to feel outraged and compassionate towards patients who were put in harm's way by the deceiving tactics and outright lies of Theranos' officials.

But let's not forget this happens everywhere -- laws are meaningless if they're not aggressively enforced: if people simply followed the law there would be no need for law enforcement.
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For example Ebay UK's HQ is in Richmond (very posh v expensive suburb of London).

Its not on any of the main line's into London and not that well placed for anyone living in London let alone commuting in from more affordable places.
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Going forward we'll have to figure out how to tax electricity used for charging electric cars(probably special chargers that have a car-taxed tariff).
> In most places in the USA / the rest of the world -- it's a 'swipe and go' sort of deal.

In most of EU you never swipe. I have swiped maybe 2x in my life and only because the chip did not work. (The swipe then did not work either...) You either use chip/pin or contactless and pin over 20eur
what sort of delta V would a probe need to shadow it?

Perhaps a Jupiter, solar transfer orbit could help...
Or to buy a shredder.
Would that delete the data that has already been transferred to Microsoft?

And as others mentioned: the portal is useless for people without MS account. What about those?
I challenge you to find just one example of land that has been repurposed from parking spaces into something else, because of Bird or some other scooter company.

...and will this land, if it even exists, be larger than the amount of sidewalk space that Bird has repurposed into scooter parking spaces?
Microsoft is reinventing itself.

You can disable those ads. You can remove apps like Skype. Manually or with an app such as O&O Shut Up. I also use Classic Shell instead of the new start menu.
It amusses me to no end how people cry about the japanese attorney is crashing bitcoin prices by selling some of the 200.000 bitcoins, yet completely forget that hackers also stole 600.000 bitcoins and how they might use those bitcoins to manipulate the market in unpredictable ways.
for a (mildly irreverent) takedown of this piece - http://www.iflscience.com/space/new-study-suggests-evidence-...

It seems to be a load of speculation written by people with some sort of agenda and not a lot of actual knowledge.
Does anyone know of actual videos of the experiment? All the videos I find online only show the wave interference pattern, but not the particle-like pattern shown when measuring/observing the particles.
The weight limit of the model being used is around 220 lbs, and it struggles to handle that. Most Americans that you'd call obese wouldn't be able to use these. The model (Xiaomi M365) was originally designed for Chinese consumers (who tend to be shorter/weigh less).
Sort of off topic, but sort of related too. How do you differentiate between the types of planes Boeing makes? I know the 737, 747, 757, 777, and 787 are all different but never really understood the meaning behind the numbers. I know certain pilots can fly certain ones, but I've never gotten the similarities between the designs and why that is.
Not saying that I support this, but it gives an interesting touch to the creation of Adam in the Bible.
In Genesis 2,7 it says:"Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." [1]

In the abstract of the paper it says "living organisms such as space-resistant and space-hardy bacteria, viruses, more complex eukaryotic cells, fertilised ova and seeds have been continuously delivered ever since to Earth".

Besides from skipping lots of evolutionary steps, if those organisms have been delivered to earth by some cosmic object (a hand of God?), then man ultimately formed from that dust.

I am by no means religious, but it's an interesting thought experiment.

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2&versi...
Perhaps a coincidence (but a good one) that this article spends a lot of time on lower-case kerning in the light of Frederick Goudy's famous quote:

"Any­one who would let­ter­space low­er­case would steal sheep"

(https://practicaltypography.com/letterspacing.html)
That is not longer the truth for quite some time now.

Yes, Go uses static linking by default, but it also supports dynamic linking and also has a plugin concept built on top of it.
As far as I know they can be fined multiple times until they comply with the law.
But wouldn't that reveal who its owner is?
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>Either you believe in random chance or you believe in God

Not really true.

"We don't know exactly how the Cambrian explosion came about, but have a lot of good evidence on how evolution works, which allows us to probe deeper into theories about what happened" is not equivalent to "it's all random chance!"
Have you looked at Shopware? Having worked with many PHP-based ecommerce systems I like it the most.
Reminds me of bike sharing in China. Now THAT is out of control. In China, the companies pay committed employees or contractors to gather bikes, as opposed to crowd-sourcing it. There's pros//cons to that (as per the article itself).

At least in China, people don't respect the bikes. They trash them. They leave them everywhere. It sounds like a similar attitude exists with these Bird scooters. As societies/cities grow larger, people take less responsibility for things they use and spaces they exist in. I suspect it's partly a cultural thing (see Japan) but I'm pretty sure Japan has litter too. Bird has to incentivize the right behavior and disincentivize (i.e. even enforcement of charging policy) poor behavior.
> There's only one.

In 2017 Apple only had 27% of the tablet market, and that's a slight increase. Samsung and Amazon are strong competitors.
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Can I now (in 4 days time), ask Microsoft for all the data it's hoovered up from my Windows 10 installation?

I'd also suggest asking for proof. For that you will require non encrypted traffic streams and/or source code ...
> For evolution to happen, a genetic mutation has to endow an advantage that makes its carrier more likely to survive and reproduce.

Or sometimes a mutation can survive just by being benign enough not to make much difference to reproductive chances.
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It's a thought, that's all. It's not an experiment by any stretch of the meaning of the word experiment.
My apologies. Yes, the sheep was in the Geneva font. I didn't realise that when I put up the title.
Why? Does electricity used by cars have more externalities than electricity used by a washing machine?
My family lives in one of these "clean freak" cultures of Europe, where there is a high priority placed, mostly by the heads of households, on maintaining the absolute pristine cleanliness of everything and staying out of the dirt. I've always resisted this, because my intuition is that kids who don't or can't get their hands dirty because of neuroses inherited from their parents are sick in other ways - but its interesting to have some scientific reasoning behind this.

So its like the whole "clean freaks" culture that is so prevalent in the west (coz: pharmaceuticals gotta sell soap too, yo.) is at the root cause of this - very interesting.

Will be interesting to see a followup to the research in a year or so and see just what is recommended - but again, that old wives tale that so many of us 'un-clean masses' propose - that we get our kids out in the mud with other kids for exercise and fun - seems to have been proven true.
There is a very sharp distinction between providing first-class partitioning, and providing automated maintenance and performance tuning.

Providing first-class partitioning is something that extensions can't possibly provide, due to how many places this has to integrate with.

On the other hand, manipulating partitions (which is effectively automatic table creation) seems like the sort of magic I expect to only exist in extensions.

As mentioned in a different comment, it does sound like people are looking for round-robin load distribution rather than partitioning.
Very few as a ratio. There aren't that many T6's and I'm not sold on the idea that "most" T5's are making $400,000 when the average is around $350,000 according to levels.fyi.
Many of these companies make a lot more sense to me if I think of the founders(+select early employees) as the company, the company as the product, the VCs as the customer, and product+customers as the sales pitch.
I studied some Prolog and Haskell in the undergraduate days. Well now my work is mostly done in Java, e.g Android.

What are strong cases to use Prolog/Haskell these days? :D
> including a chap called Chandra Wickramasinghe

Ohhhh. Glad I didn't read the paper then. I'm sure he has a lot of knowledge, but he's a bit obsessed by the idea of panspermia.
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I sure hope they have safe chargers. Cheap chinese scooter and balance board chargers and batteries are a major cause of house fires, at least here in Europe (import regulations may affect this).
That's an interesting link — a priori it seems quite implausible because the brain is so warm and most quantum computers run near absolute zero.

> it strikes me to be an uncannily "classical" question.

Even if the brain is quantum, it's still a valid question. Some quantum degrees of freedom are discrete, like spin, while others like position are continuous.
Why? We're still in the phase of giving out huge subsidies for them. More likely would be a general weight-miles tax to cover repairing the roads.
If Microsoft is anything like my company, they’ve stopped collection on any PII that they can’t deliver back to the user in response to a privacy request. So they probably have stricken those columns from their DB and are only aggregating data.
"The FAA also wanted assurances that there was no way the tips would rotate during flight".

Does "no way" include the pilot deciding they should? If so this goes against tho grain of the philosophy that the pilot should be in full control of the plane. Interesting that they made an exception for this.
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> "it's just Bayesian inference to update the posterior" makes it more confusing for me.

I do not know the jargon, but perhaps that is because this sentence does not give you any context for what "the posterior" is referring to?
http://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/askaphysicist/physi...

(I refer you to the photos there, which I think are what you want. I haven't read the text.)
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The 600k have probably been sold already.
Except that the very idea is astonishing when compared to the legal minimum insurance which sits at around 1 million dollars in the UK iirc.

I suspect that the main difference is that we are happier conceptually to say "you cannot afford insurance = you cannot drive". Driving without insurance is, of course, a crime. People still do it, and insurers will cover accidents involving the uninsured - but because it's less common the feature is basically just included by defualt in most fully comp policies
I confess that I don't understand the issues. Then again, I only last month migrated my tools from 'distutils' to 'setuptools', so I know I'm way behind the times.

I have just now read https://docs.pipenv.org/advanced/#pipfile-vs-setuppy on the topic and am still confused by the terminology. Eg, "Applications are different in that they usually are not depended on by other projects."

I am used to writing command-line applications which are used as dependencies for other projects.

But that is neither here nor there - no need to answer. Thanks for pointing out the nuance I did not recognize.
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Consequences be damned, if I could make Jurassic Park, I would.
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It is as interesting as any other vague creation myth that can be made to fit with whatever you want.
Microsoft is reinventing itself.

Really? I though that was just standard corporate marketing.
The title of the article used to be "Who Charges Those Electric Bird Scooters?"
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There isn't only one.

Onyx boox max 2 is better in everything than remarkable or sony.
This is what happens when someone reads that deep voices help you make more money: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/10052978/Deep-voice...

And for a while, wasn't it a successful tactic?

It has a lot of intuitive validity. "Command voice" is definitely a skill that can be taught, and is used by people from military officers to animal trainers and teachers. Given the extent to which the HN audience is amenable to "self-hacking", how many people here would do this if they were convinced it would earn them an extra 5%?
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No, that's not true. When combined with parallelism, ability to place partitions to other hosts and partition-aware algorithms (partition-wise joins/aggregation etc.) it can be a powerful scalability feature.
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You're missing the point.

Do you buy a car and have to peel all the advertising stickers off the windscreen, disable the tracking devices and scrub candy crush off the dashboard.

Nope.
- high-altitude adaptations of Andean populations (independent Ethiopian and Tibetan adaptations are older than your 10KY limit)

- possibly HgbS? Couldn't find much numbers related to its evolutionary history. And it's just one of the independent evolutions for malaria resistance: Thalassemias, Duffy blood groups and a few others seem to provide some level of malaria resistance to malaria

- CCR5-Δ32, while it provides resistance to HIV it's too old to have been selected for it but it's too young to have not been selected for as well (95% confidence that it's 900 to 5000 years old, likely circa 2250, a non-selected random survival would be ~100kY given how widespread it is)
>I challenge you to find just one example of land that has been repurposed from parking spaces into something else, because of Bird or some other scooter company.

These companies have existed for how long? The point is that if more and more people switch from using cars to using alternative transportation options we may move away from being a car centric society.
It's a terraform project for sure, but not for food. We are actually just circuits in a massive supercomputer built by pan-dimensional mice.
Your calculation is completely off. 150 min * 0.15 $/min = $22.50. In the US you can get a kWh for about 12 cents. That means you can get 187.5 kWh. The largest Tesla Model S has a 100 kWh. I don't know what kind of battery these scooters have, but I am sure it's not nearly as big as a Tesla battery.
Prolog loses a lot of its magic when you realize it's just DFS the language.
I've recently had great success at work in switching from virtualenv to pyenv + pyenv-virtualenv. It makes it much easier to reason about your Python installations and it helps in keeping the system Python (MacOS) from interfering.
Go here: https://aka.ms/privacyresponse

I have no clue what information they'd need from you to answer that question, but at least you can get a response without having to send a physical letter.
Why do you need to pass around class references? That's exactly what I was saying about doing something wrong. In over 15 years of programming in Java heavily, I don't think I had to do that more than a couple of times.
The GDPR applies to any processing of personal data, regardless of whether it's a website, software or even paper records.
It is a hidden variable model, but by construction it reproduces all the results of orthodox QM given certain reasonable starting conditions.

What's ruled out are local hidden variable models if you assume counterfactual definitiveness.

The website is crazy, but the best page explaining why is here: http://quantumtantra.com/bell2.html
I play the same “game” (not using brakes). The extra clutch wear happens because you down shift to increase engine braking. You rev match (blip the throttle) so the car doesn’t jerk when you do this.

I’ve got 212K miles on my original clutch (a 2007 BMW 3 series) so the wear isn’t too bad.
Possibly, but considering how much easier is the second case to implement (compared to global indexes), I'd expect that to get in first.

I'm not sure why the bloom filter would require good spatial locality?
Thanks for this very interesting point of view, a company as a product. If you look this way, then a lot of stuff makes sense in the VC/Start-Up world.
Does anyone else consider this to be dishonest?

Sounds like Apple should take even more control.
Leaseholds often excludes business activities as does home insurance.
In most places the magstrip is disabled (both on the cards and in the readers) because it's insecure and there was a lot of low-effort cloning going around.
It has everything to do with superposition. A photon can only exhibit wave-like effects (i.e. interference) as long as its position ('x') state exists in a superposition. Measuring which slit the particle travels through collapses the particle's position into a pure state, thereby removing the interference effect.
Capitalist parents will charge a fee for using home electricity.
Yes that is the official weight limit, but speaking as someone who has one and weighs 20% more, it works totally fine.

Not sure why you think it struggles - even with the official firmware it easily and quickly gets up to 16mph. Sure you get a bit less range than a lighter person, but the difference isn't huge.
> To me, there is less or no small talk- definitely in places like Lawson and 7/11, but even department stores, with local or foreigner customers.

Even though I'm pretty basic, there are a couple of cashiers I'm friendly with / make small talk. I think it's there if you initiate it. Albeit, I'm pretty friendly / jovial.

> I noticed things go slower in Kyoto and other small towns, but no slower than small towns anywhere else in the world.

I think it depends on where in Tokyo you are. Ginza feels slower than Shibuya and Shinjuku to me. I'd say Tokyo is most like LA in how many different "feeling" neighborhoods / micro-cities you have within one area.
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> - At restaurants / coffee shops you'll stand in line for an exceptional amount of time. In NYC, if a line gets "out of hand" baristas / servers shorten the amount of attention they give to each customer. It's expected when you get to the counter, you know what you want. Not in Japan (or at least all the places I've visited). Many times people will get to the counter, after standing in line, and debate with their friends what to purchase. It's always great that you know the person behind the counter is giving you their full attention, but it's frustrating when you're behind 2 - 3 people who are taking their time with their purchase. It's especially ironic in a culture that is fixated on not inconveniencing others.

I never got this. The thing is, it seemed to me that the people who are waiting are totally "cool" with it. They are not bothered and will, in turn, take their time to pick. I think it is just a cultural thing. But yes, it is interesting given that Japanese are not annoying people, and they value time.

The points you make are valid. I think people perceive Japan as a high tech country because they have a highly developed and efficient transit system. I mean when you go there as a tourist, that's practically what you are interacting with. Oh, and high speed Internet. That certainly will strike the average person as a high tech country.