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The headline accurately reflects the text of the article, but the text doesn't accurately reflect the poll it is based on.

> A poll released Sunday by a local advocacy group showed that 46 percent of Bay Area residents surveyed said they want to move out of the area within the next few years.

1. A poll will only be released by an advocacy group if it can be spun to confirm the propaganda interest for which it was commissioned, and such groups will continue to commission new surveys until they get one that confirms their narrative to release. But it's a bad sign when they have to release something they still takes massive spin to confirm the narrative...

2. The poll didn't survey residents, it surveyed registered voters which are demographically and otherwise a nonrepresentative group compared to the wider pool of residents, so even if it were a valid survey of registered voters (which is a dumb universe to poll on this question), its not valid to generalize from that to residents.

3. The poll doesn't ask them if they want to leave, it asks them if they expect to leave. That’s a radically different question.

4. It's a quite transparent push poll, where the “do you expect to move out” question is the last question, and both the first question and the immediate preceding question (the two most influential in leading the response) are negatively framed, while all other questions are neutrally framed, with no positively framed questions.

5. While the numbers change year to year, it's a repeated poll which always produces a big number that gets breathless media coverage, but there's no evidence that the responses actually predict the magnitude of Bay Area exits (even in the RV population.)
What's dangerous about Objectivism is that you can seemingly be both sincere in desiring better welfare for all while excusing an utterly selfish and debased ethical system, not to mention destructive social policies.

It appeals to people by (1) showing how good but naive intentions can lead to immense suffering (i.e. communism) and then showing how (2) free market policies seemingly predicated on selfishness counter-intuitively can lead to greater welfare for all. It's wrong because both the original narrative and inverse narrative are obviously hyperbolic rhetorical retellings (both in the book and in the more popular narratives) that in many respects fail to reflect the most substantive aspects of the political and cultural history. But counter-intuitive narratives are so very, very appealing to certain generations, partly because they seemingly expose others has hopelessly naive fools while creating a special class of people who can see the truth.
States with no income tax make a lot of money off of property tax. The more businesses and employees they bring physically into the state, the more they make.

Florida loves poaching people from high cost of living states. Typically they are moving later on in life, so they don't overload the public education system.
public beta are free for anyone:

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/
When they release new features, people ask for stability. When they focus on stability, people "yawn" at the lack of new features. People who don't like Apple will just find a reason to complain.
September is typical for hardware releases.

And we just saw a 6-core CoffeeLake MacBook Pro on Geekbench:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/03/benchmarks-hints-...
> I don't see any Tesla technology that can't easily be replicated by any other car manufacturer

I'd agree with you if it weren't for the word "easily". I think even the original commenter would agree that such replication would then constitute the new Nash equilibrium.

> Plus the other car manufacturer's don't need to learn to run an assembly line.

I would argue that assembly lines are a very old technology that Tesla is merely replicating. It's just not easily replicated, at scale, especially with any novelty thrown in.
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I’m not so sure they’re worried about apps breaking. They’ve certainly stuck to the “no more 32bit iOS apps” thing.
> What are the major details that have been debunked?

I posted this link in an earlier comment, but to my knowledge, Hersh's major claims have neither been debunked nor proven:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/what-do-we-reall...
> accepted as being accurate and authoritative.

> synonyms: recognized, authoritative, authorized, accepted, sanctioned

That's what I meant for it to mean anyway...
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Somehow comparing emoji to the worst parts of Facebook's brand of gamified socialization doesn't make it sound any more appealing.
Notch decreases function and is aesthetically displeasing.

3.5 mm = 1) there is no way a wireless medium will ever have better throughput than a wired medium over a superb DAC - ever, 2) dongle, 3) extra battery worry now for BT.

OpenGL, I will grant you that one, since both Metal and/or Vulkan are a vast improvement on OpenGL.
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If Microsoft cared about developer relationships, they'd file articles of dissolution.
This makes sense - for whatever inane reason (I'm not going to outright say it's malfeasance), Nissan chose to not include active thermal management for their Leaf line of cars. Even the one they sell today only has less effective cooling.

This means that older Leafs have a greatly reduced range. Even my budget Ford Focus EV 2017 ($16k negotiated cap cost) has active thermal management for the battery pack so I might keep it off-lease.
The big signal for me that Macs are becoming second class citizens is if they ever start supporting Xcode on something that isn’t MacOS. That is the only thing keeping app developers on their platform, and if/when that changes, you know the final nail is in.
Though the idea of it makes my skin crawl, I am cautiously optimistic.
It means that the board of directors and majority shareholders in the company are putting pressure on the key day-to-day executives of the company to produce certain results quickly. Typically this happens when the business isn't making enough money-- the majority investors feel that they can change the biz/product from the top down.

I would suggest playing along for as long as you can and searching for a better job as a fallback.

Out of curiosity, how many employees work for the company? Maybe 75, I'm guessing?
Right - probably repeating some stuff already out there. The main issue I’ve been seeing on puppeteers slack channel is folks who are totally new, and don’t read the docs, so trying to help all devs effectively
"At this point even Pixelmator and less well known alternatives use OpenCL, too."

Pixelmator, at least, is based on Core Image, which Apple has probably already moved from OpenCL to Metal.
nice catch bro.
When I was younger it was two months salary. Which was BS.

I swear I've seen "four months salary" somewhere.

Who says poop can't smell worse?
The $35K Model 3 is only one year late. Enough to deeply cut into its leads over the cars that have been increasing performance in the existing $35K price-classes (Chevy, Nissan) to meet in the middle, and with an $8K/ wibble-wobble over the "will you get a tax credit or not", but overall it's not a "never going to happen". Also depends on whether you were mentally taking a $7500 discount for the tax credit that might expire before you can use it.
It's not a 'Godwin' when it's literally the reason for IRBs and modern scientific human research ethics.
Thanks Scott. I totally agree. Most frustrating challenge is that I have had many people (250+) say "this is amazing" etc. But it has been very difficult to convert that interest to a significant user base. Part of the challenge is at one end of the scale, parents don't care and at the other end of the scale parents have the issue under control. Even if parents love the concept, getting them to become users is way more difficult than I imagined.
I though that tech was actually quite older, like that it was born just after masers got well powered and mobile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maser#Uses
but it’s still a prompt to action something that you decided “why not” for a year ago
You’d actually be surprised by the applications, I definitely was. Some I’ve seen:

- Screenshots

- PDF generation

- Functional tests

- Regression tests

- Scraping SPAs

- Crazy stuff like printing user-generated content for personalization products..
I think what you're describing is the infamous Measurement Problem:

1. Hamiltonian evolution is linear

2. Measurements produce nonlinear projections onto eigenvectors in accordance with the Born rule

Note that this projection is a function of the initial state - but a probabilistic function, so therefore not reversible.

There isn't really a satisfying answer to this question yet. Decoherence explains how the system evolves to a mixture of eigenstates but not the collapse into a single one, nor the Born rule.
Yes, I think those books should be free as well.

Material costs I'm ideologically fine with people making some profit off of, however inevitable market forces will cut margins lower and lower, until a point where no, people won't make a profit off of them.

The most successful of companies will ironically be the ones that give away the most, because they'll be the only ones that can survive in an extremely skeptical public market.

I predict this will either not happen, because citizens vote their governments into being socialist benefactors that provide these services for free, instead of the market (I also predict this will lead to increase government abuse). Or I predict the capitalist market will cater to socialist citizens by providing 0 margin services that maintain their monopoly in order to out compete governments or competitors that reap higher profits.
To a certain extent, one could consider Chinese characters to be more like emoji than words constructed via a phonetic alphabet, in which case there never really was a transition period, just some backwater outliers.
I am referring to the use of Bitcoin as a mass market currency. Physical currency is still useful in many situations where there is (a) no/intermittent networking, (b) when the cost of the purchase is less than the financial overheads and (c) for truly anonymous purchases.

I could keep going. There is a reason that even in countries like Australia where we have widspread tap to pay that cash is still pervasive.
For comparison, I was considering a Model 3 last summer. I had an old small truck that had broken down and was renting an Altima. I couldn't wait for the Model 3 reservation, so I got a certified pre-owned Camry Hybrid. It included a 7 year warranty and 8 year battery warranty, and I added an additional maintenance warranty. I had chosen an XLE, with all of the features I wanted and many more.

I drove the car home that day, and paid $3000 less than the theoretical base Model 3 would cost. The car gets 30-45 MPG consistently, so uses about twice the energy of a Model 3, and is limited to more expensive but more ubiquitous gasoline for fuel. But this is also okay as I'm in an apartment and have no charger at work.

I think some forget that the competition for the Model 3 is wider than just EVs. Lower fuel and maintenance costs are only worth so much.
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Am seriously pissed at this. MS has been slowly acquiring all the tools used for my business, its like surround and siege warfare. Skype, Linkedin, now GitHub..

The time horizons on these kinds of acquisitions are 5 years out. In that time you`ll log into Windows 20, single sign in to Skype, Linkedin, Github all re-branded, all re-written code, with messed up ELUA and a shitty product.

Dont believe todays fluff and BS, the end game is many years out.
Hello,

at the time, yes, it was just a landing page. I have uploaded the platform since then. I wanted a simple way to collect consent and for customers to update or remove consent.

Can you talk more about access requests? Are there existing solutions?
he did say exactly that
The guy went 40M into debt to finance the company as it almost died a decade ago. Refunds increasing is hardly a hurdle.
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Yes, I'm aware :)

You can use this in the middle of a regular FaceTime video call. Plus, the other person can be on an iOS device.
Fair enough. Thanks nonetheless.
I'm just saying that just because your side is "right" doesn't mean the other side doesn't have a better lobbyist.
FAANG is used very generally to refer to these five companies. It's not just in this specific context. I'm wondering why Microsoft is excluded.
I couldn't get the perspective transform to work correctly. I'll try again.
I never said he was claiming to be anything. But the media is covering him because he's the ex-founder of Apple not because his opinion has some unique merit.
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In a buyout, always be sensitive to situations where promises of status quo come from someone who is not in control of the situation.

Quite common for new owners to let old employees make promises they can’t keep and then make them disappear and change plans.
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>> "Ah, I get it, it's value is making the people use it feel special because only "the right kind of people" will get their jokes. Just a new generation of children using slang."

You sure do have some text there.

>> "Why was that so difficult to use words to describe?"

The medium is the message.
Well said, excellent point.
What's your measurement for determining whether you are on track to an IPO in 2020?
Yeah, I use little "o" for the dominate strain of Christianity that can be traced back to the 4th or 5th centuries and which Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and (to a diminished degree) most Protestant sects can readily and directly trace their doctrines and beliefs. Trinitarianism isn't as good of a fit in this context even though there's substantial overlap. But Trinitarianism would outright exclude, e.g., Mormonism even though I think it's fair to say that much of the social ethos in Mormonism derives from orthodox Christianity, and particularly from aspects of Protestant theology, even if Mormonism doesn't share the once singularly defining characteristic of orthodox Christianity. That shared characteristic--that engaging in the world and doing good works matters, however it's framed doctrinally--is what I wanted to emphasize.

At the very least I think it helps exclude all the niche sects, old and new, that pedantic people could bring up as exceptions to generalizations about the origin and evolution of Western value systems.
would be a good idea to run a good fuel preserver in the gas

https://www.goldeagle.com/product/sta-bil-fuel-stabilizer/
(no affiliation, I just have old cars in storage)
https://www.fleetcarma.com/nissan-leaf-chevrolet-volt-cold-w...

Seems like if it gets cold enough it might be a problem.
"Something as simple as setting the background color for an NSView is far more of a ritual than it is for a UIView."

Or you just use an NSBox as the rearmost subview of the NSView, and set its fill color.
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The title of this article is a bit misleading. Tesla is facing an accelerating rate of Model 3 deposit refunds. This is still not great, but as worded the title suggests people are unhappy with the Model 3's being delivered. The real (still big!) issue is that people are cancelling their reservation before the Model 3 is delivered.
Except minecraft...
Also had a harm time finding a scientist at NASA willling to support the foam strike hypothesis. Semmelweis showed hard evidence of the efficacy of hygiene in saving lives, but was an absolute pariah, literally driven into a mental hospital by his critics. There was a Nobel given to a physician for the lobotomy procedure.

Point is if you just trust the methodology of using groupthink to determine righteousness you will get some things wrong. And it gets really bad once we venture away from scientific fields. You can see in history people's psyches sometimes coalescing around acceptableness of some pretty horrendous ideas like inquisitions, holocausts, abu ghraibs, etc.
The quoted behavior appears to essentially be the behavior of browsing your friend’s profile. Does the website itself also violate trust by allowing this behavior? Should Obama or Cambridge Analytica simply have violated the ToS to get users passwords to scrape facebook.com?

I don’t really care; if you install the facebook app you deserve whatever it does.
I just finished teaching a Jr/Sr undergrad Quantum Mechanics course last semester, so I'll take a stab at answering this.

There are two approaches to answering this question. One of them invokes the concept of "the collapse of the wavefunction" at the moment of measurement: when an observer actually measures the outcome of such an experiment, the universe probabilistically selects one of the possible outcomes as "true" and proceeds from there. This "collapse" process is explicitly non-unitary. You may ask, "What entities qualify as 'observers' to trigger collapse?", and the answer is basically "It's not well-defined." As you might gather from that, it's not clear to me that you can include an "observer" in this sense as part of the overall wavefunction of the universe at all, though perhaps people who have studied the foundations of quantum mechanics in more detail could give a better answer.

The other option is pretty much exactly what you've described in your final paragraph: you don't invoke "collapse of the wavefunction" at all, and the final quantum state of the universe after measurement is indeed a superposition of "|0> and observer who saw '0'" and "|1> and observer who saw '1'". Because anything we'd call an "observer" will be a large, complex system, there will very rapidly be a vast number of tiny, "pseudo-random" differences between the two branches of the wavefunction, ensuring that there won't be opportunities for the two branches to experience significant constructive or destructive interference in the future: they'll evolve pretty much completely independently from then on. (This concept is called "decoherence", which you've made reference to, and I'm definitely not an expert on it, but I'm told it's become quite important in research on quantum computing.) There's still a probabilistic question of which branch of the wavefunction a given observer might experience (and understanding why that happens is an enormously subtle question; I've seen some work by Sean Carroll among others trying to make progress on it), but once a given observer has measured a particular outcome to the experiment, the math of quantum mechanics guarantees that they'll continue to measure consistent results after that. This is more or less the Everett "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics.

As you might gather, I'm partial to the latter interpretation, in part because it's where the math seems to most naturally lead (the first time I felt like I really understood quantum mechanics was after a very math-heavy graduate course taught by Robert Geroch), and in part because I've never been able to make sense of what wavefunction collapse might mean (and never been happy about its violation of unitarity).
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Jesus Christ. Is everyone here a teenager? Microsoft in the 80s might bot be a valid comparison today, but something that happened 6 years ago is barely yesterday. Institutions do not change that much that quickly.

Microsoft 15 minutes ago isn't the Microsoft of today is just as true a statement and one just as vacuous.
Great article! I've got several apps that maintain long running Selenium jobs (requires a real JS engine for the pages it hits) and ruthlessly killing containers after a each job and with a timer is the only solution I found. Zombie processes are a b!

My team is in the planning phase of rewriting one, and we're going to use Puppeteer this time. Definitely sharing this with them!
Sounds great. I suggest an onsite chatroom for non Telegram users.
The really nasty changes always seem to come at the beginning of the second fiscal year after acquisition. So meet me back here in 18 months and we’ll talk.
the (v|b)olt has horrible charging infrastructure.
> Zero Dark Thirty

That was entertainment - historical fiction - not documentary.
> across 4 os's

windows, gnu/linux, android; and what other os?
I think it’s the gh-pages branch on a private repository.

If you look at Nat’s account right now [0], he doesn’t even have the telltale “GitHub Staff” badge, probably because his hiring is contingent upon the deal closing.

So he’s definitely not an admin at the system level, which just makes him a normal account.

https://github.com/natfriedman

Edit: I’m on a roll today. No, I’m mistaken — it’s not gh-pages. This is the repo: https://github.com/natfriedman/hello

By all measures I don’t see how this is a pages repo at all.
Fair enough. I obviously don't know your friend or his project, so I can't with certainty say anything about his situation. I viewed your post through a critical lens because the details given didn't match my experience or the experience of any of my old colleagues, and you are a second-hand witness.
Apple already has screen sharing via iMessage. This looks really cool, but probably unnecessary.
GitHub's success as an ongoing concern was based on their investors willing to keep giving them more money or alternatively the public market giving them more money until they could become profitable.
Most folks on this board likely don't qualify for the $2500 CA tax credit.

However, PG&E also allows you to get a $500 credit if you've bought an EV.
Saying that build times is time you've saved developers is a very odd conclusion - I doubt most developers sit watching the compiler build an app...
'We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten...'
CDN proxies and hosting companies are rapidly adding these features. It won't affect the long-tail, but those sites don't get much traffic anyway.
This is not controversial opinion Miguel is close to Satan in the free software wing of the community.
That's some impressive timing for that announcement.
But they do appear to be related. You see the same things in the same companies, and the commonalities are consistent with treating consequences of the quest for growth at all costs as acceptable. When you have people racing a (real or perceived) time window, they don't stop pushing when humans are involved rather than software.

> your construction example is terrible

Takes all kinds. Including people who intentionally read things obtusely.
If you have time, it would be great if you could add some citations for what you are writing. The lack of them doesn't make the comments wrong or useless, but this is a discussion about the veracity of someone's claims.