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More like basic math and direct experience. My business sells power supplies to this industry. Say the average home or apartment has 200 Amp electrical service (24 Kilowatts). A typical miner takes about 12 Amps meaning you can run about 16 units maximum on home electric service. 16 units isn't really enough to reach the scale you would need to be long term profitable in the industry. That isn't to say there aren't a few fools who don't realize that and are running a small scale operation out of an apartment but this article is citing requests for _Megawatts_ of demand from single customers. That is unquestionably industrial scale.

Anecdotally i've shipped a ton of equipment to Wenatchee and every operation I've done business with has been in an industrial warehouse.
> Whether or not to legalize weed is the wrong question. The right one is: How will growing use of delta-9-THC affect individuals and communities?

I do not agree with this statement. We do need to study the short and long-term effects of cannabis at an individual and greater societal level. However current law hinders our ability to do so. Moreover it is my assertion that the criminalization causes much more damage to the individual and society than its use ever could.

The author admits to using cannabis throughout their 20s and 30s but doesn't seem contend with the consequences of how her life could have been drastically changed for the worse if she had gotten into legal trouble while smoking. Arrest, no financial aid, loss of opportunities, institutionalization...

Most would agree that cannabis is not completely harm free, but this article reeks of scare propaganda against legalization while trying to sound like "I'm being impartial to legalization."

The legal aspect is the most important part to deal with first. Stop destroying lives. Increase awareness. Reduce harm.
Just because a rule applies to more cases doesn’t mean it’s the best answer for a given case (or that we should prefer it over other rules). Consider this example that’s true for many cases, but overall not a sufficient proof https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pólya_conjecture

In fact, I’d be willing to bet both hypotheses contribute to the overall effect we observe.
I'd add in that Toronto has been trying to "revitalize" it's waterfront area since I lived there in the 80s. As far as I know, it has never really become a draw to live down there.
> what does "startup nation" even mean?

A nation where startups can succeed?
Put the blame where it belongs. Public policy is being held back by powerful interests who profit from the status quo.
Definitely does not read well from a mac.
One thing that people ignore is how corrupt machine politics and the ability to dole out jobs for supporters had the benefit of tying people to a party that was divorced from their politics - not that I'd advocate going back.

I'm not sure that I buy that geographic identities were less dangerous than current party identities. The only thing that worries me is when people's multiple identities (race, religion, party, ideology, geography) start overlap more than they have in the past. Or if the extent people were to ever STOP identifying as Americans before party or citizens of their state (looking at you, Texas!).
What's 80W?
I don't know much about the startup landscape in France (or anywhere in the EU), but I've always heard that it is difficult to incorporate a small company and hire employees due to large regulatory/bureaucracy hurdles. The "move fast, break things" pattern of setting up a Delaware LLC and getting an angel seed in a matter of days/weeks really just doesn't work.

Can anyone comment on this? Is this way off base?
Arbitrary code execution: https://www2.cs.uic.edu/~s/musings/pickle/
I’ve come to the conclusion that most perspectives in life are completely relative and purely in the eye of the beholder. Too much self-criticism is thus an overemphasis of one side of the coin. It is not healthy and in most cases not valid
Oddly enough, I find it quite pleasant. I'm on a 27" 2560x1440 monitor, and it's really easy to sit back in my chair and read this comfortably in my usual window setup (which is 1/3 web browser, 2/3 terminal, or so)

Edit: ok, at full width on this screen, it looks ridiculous. Definitely works better in a vertically-oriented window.
Media is another word that is not used consistently either. It is the plural of medium in latin but is not always understood as a plural.
B.L.A.S. (numerical library) ported to JavaScript
Yelp apparently has a billion dollars of search ad revenue, so maybe it's not small.
I understand why a small percentage of startups could benefit from being in San Francisco and similar and want to enjoy the ecosystem, hire people, etc.

However, I have no idea why any early-stage startup would go to France and last 3 months, while with the same money they could go to Poland and enjoy the same level of support from the government, availability of highly-skilled tech people, and twice-4 times the buying power compared to any other similarly attractive country in Europe.

While I've never even come close to creating an even barely successful anything, I would think that being able to survive for 6 months can make the difference compared to running out of money after 3 months. I mean, the 3-months guy would totally miss a big contract at month 5.
That's an interesting way to look at it and probably true.
Almost everything is a fraud these days.

It's extremely rare to come across a product that delivers on its promises.

The problem is that everyone is just too stupid to see through the marketing. Regardless of whether the marketing poses as science or religion.
> Is it fair to say that both sides see the primary issue as demographic change? (Right: illegal immigration. Left: transition to majority-minority society.)

What is a "majority-minority society", and what makes it the primary issue for the left?
Reading the abstract reminded me that so many people don't understand effective communication. The academic essay style is a travesty of global proportions. Effective communication would start with the conclusion section, then the body, and leave the intro out. Make your statement quickly, and then expand upon it for whoever wants to keep reading. Saying, "in this essay I will tell you what I learned" is not going to keep me reading. Give me the high level points, then expand upon them!
darmok and jalad at tanagra... darmok and jalad! at tanagra!
if you get the pdf, it is a bit better... mainly because the pdf renders the page narrower so it ends up smaller.

But kind of ironic that a book on web design fundamentally fails on web design.
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Spelling comes from the root of each individual word. It makes sense to keep them written this way. Not everything makes phonetic sense especially in English where imported words are countless.
How far has he gotten with labor law changes? I some HR folks complain at a company I worked for a while back. They complained that if someone in France was going to be fired there were three different government departments that may choose to get involved and sometimes each had a different idea on how the situation should be handled.
As a guy in Japanese traditional Soft company, what your idea has acheived by Big Company such as Accenture, they has Company called Avanade for this opportunity. Besides best talented Japanese just don’t learn Computer Science, they go to consultant and financial company or NTT, NEC, Hitachi, Fujitsu which main business is not software product( Actually they are manufacturer)
It is worth noting that the else clause can also be used with while loops.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/reference/compound_stmts.html#wh...
They're all 18650 cells at heart. Your Milwaukee Fuel drill and impact have brushless motors, probably with higher capacity batteries (measured in Amp-hours) than the Ryobi set, which have brushed motors and probably 1.5-2 Amp-hour batteries. There are plenty of power tool review blogs that do tests to see how many fasteners/board feet/etc different brands do with the same capacity battery packs.

FWIW, Milwaukee and Ryobi are owned by the same parent company, Techtronic Industries
I would believe it and I also believe the decline was due to racism. Southern racists didn’t like seeing prosperous black people. Just look at what happened to Rosewood:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre
I can attest this too, I was recently working with some massive and sparse binary matrix, with only 0.1% elements have values, it was magnitudes faster to index and sum the elements than to do a dot product. Not even a Tesla GPU was close to the performance of a custom matrix operation we wrote.
Look at that... right at the top. LaTeX fonts! https://github.com/miguelgfierro/sciblog/blob/master/blog/st...
If we're going to talk data/studies:

* there was that OKTrends blog article from 5-10 years back that noted women tended to rate 80% of men below average, while men tended to rate women in a normal distribution.

* there's apparently some indication that twice as many women as men manage to reproduce successfully.

* To the extent that books like _A Billion Wicked Thoughts_ reflect credible research, there's notable indications that women often employ a broader set of criteria along with a higher floor and aim for picking mates.

There may be methodological issues that I'm not in a position to evaluate, so I'm sure all of this is subject to review. Also, none of this means you have to make any categorical call about who has a more privileged or difficult life by gender; beyond the good reasons for anyone to be selective when looking for prospective mates, there are some that apply to women in particular. But it does look like there are studied reasons for suspecting that women are more selective and critical about prospective mates than men are.
I think this was probably it (just reached that point in the video where Thiel says the money quote). Thanks.
I think Dems speak well of GWB both because (1) he was objectively preferable to liberals who care about good government, and (2) it's useful as a partisan to use GWB against Republicans. Obviously 1 is a valid reason and 2 isn't, but I think both are at play.
The article fails to explain why English moved from en to s for plural forms around 1400, though.
Take Helen Keller for example.

We remember Helen Keller because by all rights she should have been basically an institutionalized animal and not had a career of any kind whatsoever. What exactly she did is of less significance than that she did anything at all with her life.

This scene from "The Miracle Worker," a movie about her relationship to the teacher who taught her sign language and basic manners against very long odds, never fails to bring me to tears:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUV65sV8nu0
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Speaking just from personal experience — a lot of young progressives look fairly negatively upon the label of American and American identity in general, but identify strongly with the Democratic Party. So, maybe you should be a little worried.
It's more, managing a nation like a startup
>It’s not hard to see that unless the two carts are situated side by side in the middle of the beach, there’s economic incentive for one or the other to move.

This assumes some features of the distribution of visitors that aren't specified in the problem description.
There are some valid uses for it, but the interface is unsafe by default. How about instead, requiring a MAC key in the serialization protocol?
Hiring and firing people in France is particularly hard. Most companies do not scale beyond 10 employees as after this threshold the regulatory burden increases dramatically.

Taxes on small to medium businesses are downright confiscatory.

Most French people still see business owners as exploiters of their workers.
Sounds like some of Milton Keyenes ideas from the 60's but higher tech :-) Brazil and some South America countries where also into fusing cybernetics and city design

Though when MK w built it was planned with different housing types some where for workers some for supervisors and some for executives.
The primary difference between pickle and all the other problematic serialization mechanisms that have been causing security issues is that pickle has been labeled for decades now as being unsuitable for any use with public data. No sarcasm, I'm quite serious. It hasn't been 100% successful at preventing issues, there have been a couple, but it does seem to have been enough to keep it from being the star of it's own massive disaster, even though the potential is theoretically there.

As with many of the dynamic language deserializers, such as the Ruby YAML one, for pickle it's not even an exploit or something... it's a feature of the code that it can call methods, and getting to arbitrary methods isn't that hard.
Israel is an example of a “startup nation”.

Edit: Downvotes!? Israel has the most startups per capita of any nation. Look it up, not doing homework for you.
If you are trying to start a startup with a friend, think about this, do you really know this person? are you confident that under high levels of pressure this person is going to help you or is he going to break apart?

I started a startup with my best friend whom I knew for several years. The startup succeeded (kind of, we got acqui-hired by BigTech) but the friendship turned into a deep alienation in the process.

Startup pressure can bring out the true character of a person. The problem though is that you may not know the true character of someone until startup pressure is applied -- even if that someone is your best friend.

I'd actually argue for not starting your startup with a good friend. Friendship bias works against you when your cofounder turns against you under pressure. Instead choose a co-founder that you know professionally and that you have a good gut feeling about.

The problem of the story presented is not that he didn't start the company with someone he knew better, it's that apparently no agreements existed that prevented $ANTISOCIAL_COFOUNDER_BEHAVIOR from happening. I'm certainly guilty of that as well. The resources spent on setting up those agreements are always worth it. Also not a shame at all to bring in lawyers at this stage.

It is super common to divide shares generously the first day of the startup, it's like marrying a girl the first day you know her. Isn't it creepy?

It's common to divide 50/50, but with a vesting schedule. If co-founder shows $ANTISOCIAL_COFOUNDER_BEHAVIOR despite agreements made you may kick him/her out and will only lose shares that vested.
Yip yip. It’s called “top-down” communication and every good newspaper does it exactly like you describe
Recently helped a friend launch a French subsidiary. It is a pain.

First, you must pay a lawyer or formation agent to write and register your by-laws. Next, you must seek an introduction to a bank manager. With that secured, you get to draft a book report of a business plan. This is tedious and pointless. Once completed, the bank manager reviews it. (They will also ask for lots of personal documents, each requiring expensive notarization.) If they approve, you get a business bank account. Into this account you must deposit no less than €4,000. Unfortunately, these funds are frozen until you get your extrait Kbis. That won't happen for at least two weeks.

Now you have to buy an ad in a French newspaper. These are expensive. After a week or two, papers will arrive in the mail. You take these to the Commercial Court, where a bunch of agencies on different floors will stamp them. With those stamped papers in hand, your €4,000 will be unfrozen. (Usually. On the next business day.) Finally, you have to appoint a French accountant. They continually monitor your business and continually charge you fees. Now you can business!

Meanwhile, in Delaware, 24 hours and a few hundred dollars buys you an LLC. A bank account, set up online or in person, can get you going the next day.
I wrote a JavaScript implementation with the naive method, but it also checks that matrix are compatibile and generalize the underlying ring operation (mul and add) so you could use it to multiply complex matrices, or bigint matrices, or every other ring you define.

http://g14n.info/matrix-multiplication/
> This whole idea contradicts the very nature of being human which is to make up meaning according to the culture and trends of the time.

We all do it: we have assumptions in form of learned concepts or experiences, place importance on some of them and then use it to prove a point.

You state that it didn't "struck a chord with you at all" and then proceed with your assumptions / value system ("... physics formula can have eternal significance within the grand scheme of things"). For all positions, assumptions and opinions there exists a position where all of it doesn't matter.

Trying to be scientific is also a belief system. Recognizing that all human beings share the trait of having assumptions (some of them called facts) and deriving behavior and opinions from it is the key.

This understanding can support empathy which was generally a good strategy to have in the past (e.g. even monkeys implement fairness concepts based on individuals trying to manage resources in groups which IMHO is one important aspect of the origin of empathy).

I can understand your position of relativism, but it's very close to nihilism. This is not inherently bad (nothing is good or bad, anyways - I'm also a big fan of relativism), but it can be detrimental to mental health and overall well-being.

The tactic may be too simple to "get you", but your point of view is equally flawed in another way (as well as mine).

The question is: What are you standing for if you don't find his arguments convincing? Nitpicking and being anti is not a good long-term strategy, maybe we can help him with better arguments for empathy that resonate with scientific-minded thinkers like you.
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It has historically been difficult to fire employees in France, compared with the US. Apparently they considered relaxing this policy on 2016 [1], but IDK whether their efforts were successful.

Considering the Silicon Valley mantra of “hire slow, fire fast”, it will be interesting to see how things evolve in France. Will they relax their labor laws/customs, or will they find a different way for startups to grow?

1: https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-05-13/france-employers-reso...
I would hate to see serialization go completely. It has its uses. Maybe Java should copy the attributes that the C# data contract serializer uses to mark the subset of classes that may appear in serialized form. It coukd be retrofitted and would be a less drastic change at the same time.
I think there's something to that first half.

On the second half, young people I've heard from seem more open-minded to third parties than older generations. But that's also just personal experience.
The visa thing sounds like a back-formation unique to your mother tongue. The word "visa" is the past participle of videre (Latin for "to see"). So it is not a plural in its formation/derivation.
You would receive a README explaining how to get set up, what pattern was used and how the classes reflect to that. Like "*Fetcher is a static object used to fetch Model objects over the network".

Should not be more than 200 lines. Because everything over 200 lines gets flagged as a warning </pedantic>
I hate it when code uses weird niche features that are not obvious, are impossible to look up and add 0 value aside from saving a couple of lines of code.
Are you confusing syntax with grammar? Rust has a large grammar—many reserved words, many compile-time macros, etc.—but not too much in the way of syntax (e.g. novel punctuational operators; novel kinds of literals; etc.)

C++ and Perl, meanwhile, both have tons and tons of syntax, such that they're 1. harder to grasp for people who haven't seen them before, and 2. harder to learn (especially by attempting to Google language features "by name.")

If there was a spectrum with Lisp [or Forth] on one end and APL on the other, Rust might be somewhere right-of-center... but it'd still be pretty far left of C++ and Perl.

Also, given the languages that occupy the ends of said spectrum, I think it should be clear that your position on said spectrum has no correspondence with "expressive power" :)
Neither of those examples are leaving out articles or possessives.
C++ and Felix obviously have the lowest overhead .. namely zero in both cases :-)
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [0]

It helped me understand certain things I experienced in life without consciously knowing about them.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-deep-work-flow/
Geography was better because it ended up being more democratic. Even Tammany Hall paid attention to their voters.

Now you get bullshit memes that activate supporters longitudinally across the country. Obama was “Hope” and “Change”, Trump is MAGA. Institutional candidates like Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney can’t fight populist bullshit.

It’s dangerous because it disenfranchises. If you were a Republican in New York, things were tough, but they are plain grim now, as you need to be a right winger or you lose these “activated” crazy people.
Ask HN: Need help choosing a database for a local-remote multi master sync
Hi all,

I’m on a mission to find a the right database for a big project I’ve been working on for a while. As of right now, I’m on a CouchDB (Cloudant) NoSQL database in the cloud while using PouchDB on Asyncstorage using a library in React Native. It's a bit buggy for me right now.

I was wondering if anyone has done something like my below use case and could give me some guidance on what I should choose. My biggest issue is wrapping my head around how to do these multi-master type syncing requirements I have. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

My use case is as follows:

Master Database — This is in the cloud. And is the complete repository where all documents are stored.

Local intranet(s) — We install a local database on a linux machine on worksites. They periodically have access to the internet, which is how they will grab and send data from the mater database; but for the most part, they will be offline but will be connected to a local wifi network that devices can access. It should be noted that I only grab specific documents from the cloud. Time based and maybe like 50 other documents that are based on type. And then obviously any documents that are added to the database, we push to the master manually when we have internet.

Device(s) — During an online set up with the master database or via the local intranet, there are about 50 documents that are necessary to run this application that we need to grab. This is where all the documents are created. Depending on worksite, we want to make live queries to the master database or live queries with the local intranet. Whenever a document is created, we want to push this to either one of those so all devices can share the same information. Whether it be device->local intranet->cloud or device->cloud, the documents that are created need to get off the device and to the master. Once they are on the local intranet, we are goodie, or once they are on the cloud.

I should note that we never update a document atm to avoid conflicts and to keep an audit trial.