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Humans Feared Smart Robots Over a Century Before Elon Musk Raised the Alarm
Don't downvote. The best time to invest is during a recession. Everyone should be saving money today for the next one, then buy.
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> There are journal articles out there claiming that Alibaba, a company as big as Oracle, is making up whole cloth 95% of it’s accounting statements.

Do you have a source for this? I'm not doubting you, but I've never heard this and would like to learn more if possible.
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The discussions here (at least what I've read so far) have been about customer service bots. That's not where chatbots are going to be fun and interesting. Fun and interesting is the "expert in your ear" that we'll soon have.
Agree. A380 economy is much better than any recent densified 777 (Eva air exception still 9 across), or 787 where airlines threw the Boeing design guidelines of 2/4/2 out the window and went for 3/3/3 (JAL exception).
Yes, traffic does expand to fill roadways if all you do is build roadways and population and car-ownership increases. One solution to traffic congestion is, yes to provision more transit infrastructure, but that usually means subways and cycling paths in a city, a better train system in the countryside. Another solution is to redesign the city so that people don't need to move as much. Build vertically, encourage varied local businesses where people live, rather than in a mall outside town and relocate things that you don't need in a city centre (i.e. industry).
Medically-assisted suicide is a thing with professional support and evaluations and guidance, in regions where it’s defined and legal. Unassisted suicide is usually assumed to be mental illness based on the circumstances — randomly in a hotel room during a filming does not read as “rationally premeditated after careful consideration and psychological evaluation” to most of us.
I just mash the zero key frantically until it connects me to a human. Works ~95% of the time.
I guess given straight choice though, would you have preferred to keep your hair?

Maybe that's what this is about. I know I would, given a choice. I like my hair.
Worth remembering: slavery was outlawed in the United States after it was outlawed in Great Britain.

In the long-view, the whole American Experiment may not have been a net positive for slaves and their descendants relative to a hypothetical alternate history where the Revolutionary War failed and the US was just more British Empire. Nearly impossible to say with certainty, of course, because a Britain that included the US may have had different incentives to push it away from ending slavery.
“Startup idea: creating some kind of stylish, fluffy headgear that somehow replaces hair while still not trying to pose as fake hair / a toupee. This could be huge fashion market.”

Hats. You’re describing hats.
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> This is true, but how could a CDN possibly cache a response without access to it?

It can't, which is why it's ridiculous to say "there's no excuse not to use a CDN".
Today is the 40th birthday of 8086; happy birthday pal
Same. He was a hero to me as well. I'm devastated
In the US you have to provide a Social Security number to activate your cash-purchased Visa gift card.
Yes precisely. I’m sure this varies from person to person but the applications that have the most staying power in my tool belt by far are those that are well executed first class citizens of my platform of choice. Cross platform apps written by developers who are more concerned with an easy one size fits all solution nearly always fall to the wayside.

I chose the platform I use for a reason. Why should I be ok with apps that undermine that by taking the lowest common denominator approach to porting?
The so called business cycle is created by the FED itself. Left uncontrolled, the market will disconnect from reality and create bubbles that can destroy the economy, as it did in 1929. The unrecognized work of the FED is to increase the interest rates periodically to force these bubbles to pop and create a minor recession before they can collapse the economy. The real risk of this cycle is that the FED has already lost the opportunity to contain a major bubble which is already forming in the stock market.
Unfortunately Mac is still miles ahead of Linux on usability. I recently got an XPS 13 and put Ubuntu on it, and immediately ran into many small issues such as:

- Touchpad had a very low resolution. This had to be fixed by using a different display server.

- Touchpad had nonexistent palm rejection. I fixed this by turning off tap to click which doesn’t actually fix the problem but stops it from causing an issue when typing.

- Touchpad generally had a very old fashioned layout with large zones for the right click button and scroll bar.

- All of these touchpad fixes had to be done with some strangely formatted text files.

- Key remapping also required diving into a whole set of text files and searching around for incomplete documentation wikis on it.

- Gestures do not work without switching back to the display server with the very low resolution touchpad.

- The windowing and multi desktop system is generally not as well thought out as Mac.

- Bluetooth just doesn’t work well. I need to “forget” and then reconnect to a device to join it again. Feels very buggy.

There are also a lot of other things I’m forgetting right now. Currently Linux does not offer a top tier desktop experience, and it’s been 90% of the way there for like 15 years, so I doubt it’s ever going to get better until the dynamics of the ecosystem change. My guess is that Linux developers don’t want to do boring stuff like fixing obscure bugs for certain peripherals, and they don’t want to listen to designers to create a polished unified experience.

I briefly used windows while installing Ubuntu and it was generally much smoother. If windows can get the Linux subsystem stuff working 100% my guess is that it will start to gain momentum as a developer OS.
Reenvisioning how we hold phones
Your comment is kinda rude.
The last paragraph under that heading says the directive was declared invalid 2014.

> On 8 April 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Directive 2006/24/EC invalid for violating fundamental rights. The Council's Legal Services have been reported to have stated in closed session that paragraph 59 of the European Court of Justice's ruling "suggests that general and blanket data retention is no longer possible".[18] A legal opinion funded by the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament finds that the blanket retention data of unsuspicious persons generally violates the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, both in regard to national telecommunications data retention laws and to similar EU data retention schemes (PNR, TFTP, TFTS, LEA access to EES, Eurodac, VIS).[19]
Mataya, thanks for mentioning M1. I haven't heard of it before. What's your referral code?
Office Assistant aka Clippit aka Clippy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
You are claiming a false dichotomy. Specialization doesn't mean future-deprecation. Every single cross-platform app is written to an abstraction. There is no implicit assumption that all abstractions are good. Whenever I hear cross-platform code I think slow bloated web-apps or slow bloated java apps with a funky UI.

Websites written for IE6 can still be used today with minor changes. The problem is activex and other crappy plugin technologies. If people had just targeted Win32, those apps would still be working today - but probably still end up requiring a rewrite because of modern security requirements.
Hm, I guess your AirBNB is pretty nice, and our building is pretty shitty - we've had to have our building's super come in at least once a month to fix this or that - pipe making awful racket, door doesn't close or latch, lock needs to be replaced, neighbors making too much noise (although sadly, that problem wasn't fixed by the super with a wrench.)
Exactly. I did tech support in college, and there's often a huge gulf between what people ask for and what they want. Especially with the rise of the web and apps, we've shifted plenty of power into the hands of users and customers already.

Voice-based systems currently combine all of the limitations of human conversation (e.g., low bandwidth, strongly linear, possibilities hidden) with all the limitations of computers (e.g., not very bright, highly literal, inflexible).

I think the main reason they're so popular for support is that people are bad at accounting. If I install an IVR system, I see that calls to human agents go down, saving me easily measured cash money. But I probably haven't measured the time and cognitive load burden shifted to customers, or the value lost by suboptimal use of whatever they're supporting.
>> And a bit of tangent to your point, if someone is worried about attractiveness, hitting the gym will do way more for that than grasping on to hair.

Or a successful IPO :-)
I don’t think so. He’s basically saying there is always somebody saying the economy will collapse and there are always people saying the economy is going to be stronger than ever.
What do you do at night in a plane at the moment? Do you panic then?
>No need to get personal.

Eh, if you don't want backlash, maybe you shouldn't throw out things like this: "your sixteen year old self to write shitty JS code"

>you said there was "zero economic incentive"

I said, "there was zero economic incentive, at least for me." If you're going to be pedantic, at least read what I wrote.
This sounds really cool, what carrier and aircraft type were you on?
No, I’m saying that without the Fed and the federal government acting to rationally steer markets the markets will go off a cliff and not come back. Just like Bernanke said here. Regulators matter. When the government stimulates the already hot market with lax taxes and high spending it’s like pouring liquid oxygen onto a flame.
Skeleton crew on OSX but they have time to reinvent sockets. Apple, 2018.
I looked it up (I read the code a lot when working in that field, but that was well over a decade ago now). Physical damage is in 352.10 (F) and 352.20 (C). Support distance is in 352.30.

To be more complete, Schedule 80 is permitted in areas subject to physical damage, but not schedule 40 (much more common). Likewise the AHJ (authority having jurisdiction) has ultimate say. In the area I worked (and in most jurisdictions from what I was told), you had better have a very good reason for exposed PVC outside of service entrances or similar.

EDIT: for sake of thoroughness, At a service entrance, you have overhead and underground. Overhead will be using RMC (rigid metallic conduit) to the meter. You can usually get permission to use PVC from the meter to the outside shutoff (required for non back-to-back panel installations) and can usually run a couple feet of PVC from there to turn under the house. I saw someone run an outside exposed PVC from the panel to the HVAC and it got called immediately (bury, put in the wall, or switch to EMT). With trailer installs, I've seen them permit a jump from the pole to the trailer above ground if a box was built around the PVC at the crossing.

It's worth remembering that the NEC is both a minimum requirement and a suggestion at the same time. The AHJ is given a lot of leeway because the minimum requirement doesn't fit every situation. Likewise, loads of districts use outdated versions of the code (that may not sound big, but things like AFCI (arc fault breakers) in bedrooms still isn't required in a lot of districts because they are on the 199x or early 200x code).
It's called dollar-cost averaging. A lot of people invest in indexes because they put on the research and learned how to invest. When it comes to your own money, don't listen to the crowd... always put on the work and do the research.
Just make sure you also tally up how many times they said 'pointless' and were proven right.

Spending time and resources on things that won't work (economically) does no one any good.
Works both ways. There are permebears and permabulls. One will overpredict and the other will under.
Buy property, bitcoin, gold.
TLS should be everywhere, whether private data or not. Any intermediary can be adulterating the payload otherwise, and we know that some carriers, routers, adware, etc, do.
Why not fall back on a microframework like Slim, or something that has best practices built-in like Laravel or Symfony.

7 years ago we had Codeigniter, which was also quite good.
I found the best summation in one of the most unlikely places, the show Nip/Tuck: "I think that if a person is in a great deal of pain, physical or spiritual, and they've exhausted all their options, I wouldn't judge them for it. I'd say a silent prayer and hope death brought them the peace of mind life never could give them."
I don't think the Fed Fund Rate is controlled by bonds, but by money supply. They remove dollars from circulation until the borrowing rate rises to a pre-defined rate (such as 2%).

Banks don't typically borrow from the Fed as it's viewed as a sign of being unable to borrow from another bank. It's part of the reason the Big Banks were forced by the Fed to ask for a loan during the 2008 crisis, so smaller banks could ask for loans without looking weak.
No, sorry. AirBnB is creating immense problems in tourist destinations, to the point where people in major cities in Greece (and other countries) are having trouble finding affordable permanent housing.

Barcelona and Rome are overrun with tourists, and it's killing the cities. AirBnB should just go away, the market worked very well before it, even if things were a bit more expensive.
You're telling someone who finds their life to be so unendurable that they need to be more considerate? Hell yeah it's selfish. And for a lot of people that do it, it's one of the few times they've done something for themselves. Everybody should have a right to die, and in a world where lives are constantly getting longer and society more oppressive with its demands, the right to die should be fundamental.
What's the bridge, how much, and is what everyone else is using and/or the next big thing?
I'm pretty sure if a woman has the choice to reproduce with Jeff Bezos or some hairful homeless person, she will choose Jeff.
What is the military?
I actually found this while researching octopus merge (mostly looking for background info - I'm working on a tool that traverses and replicates modified git repositories), and I realized that it was actually pretty interesting.
In the UK you can get a tattoo that looks like stubbles.
I decided to get ahead of my hair thinning by shaving my head last year. It's shut down online dating almost completely. But because I stand out a little more now it's actually been great for my work life. People don't forget the bald bearded guy.
I've flown both Singapore's A380's and more 787's than I can count. You're right, the A380 is very comfortable, but that's not 100% about the plane. It's about how the airline outfits the cabin.

I will grant you that the A380 is super duper crazy quiet compared with most other large jets. But legroom and lie-flat seats are available on all kinds of jumbo jets.

Except the Concorde. I had the privilege of flying that once. It was significantly smaller and less comfortable than I'd imagined it would be. But it made up for it in flight time.

Short flight with less comfort > Long flight with more comfort.
The 787 automatic tinting works for that, too, though.
If only "Shibboleet" worked:
http://xkcd.com/806/

Unpacking it...

Haiku: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29

Penguin doll: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux

Bearded dude with swords:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/life-imitates-xkcd-part-ii-r...

which is a recursive reference to XKCD: http://xkcd.com/225/

Shibboleet: Shibboleth from Judges 12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

combined with "leet"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet from hacker culture
Modest inflation is good hyperinflation is bad.
it isn't vaguely related. it may be poorly written, but it was meant to be an example of the surrealness of bad customer service in stores like home depot.

anecdotes are certainly part of this site. just look this thread. they are plastered over every thread in general.

and why are you welcoming me? i have been here.

the hubris one encounters here is suffocating.
> I don't think it affects how others think of you much at all.

Unfortunately people care a good deal about that.
Let's go back to taxis while we're at it.
That's an article summarizing a reddit comment but splits it up.

This article is slightly better as it links to the original advice thread:

https://boingboing.net/2016/06/08/coder-fired-after-6-years-...
Depends on who you are.
It worked terribly for people with young families or families that were over 4 people.
There's also a highly effective surgical alternative to everything mentioned in this thread: FUE hair follicle transplants.

You can move roughly half the hair from the side of your head to the top without causing an overly thin look on the sides.

It has been speculated that Elon Musk fixed his early balding with FUE. If you look at the side of his head today, you can see the thinning.
If did this very thing after my hairline and bald spot became prominent and don’t regret it one bit. It’s easier, cheaper, and, given the fact that I can count on one hand the number of haircuts in my life I actually liked, looks better on me I think.
MIT has a course I think.
we are likely heading towards a global debt write-off.

Household debt has gone down quite a bit since 2008. It's government that is spending more.

Household debt:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N

"Public" (Government) debt:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
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2020: policies put in place under this administration will come home to roost during the next administration, which will get the blame.

This lag between economic policy and outcomes is a big reason the US has such a disingenuous public debate. Getting what you can in the short term, while being deceptive about long term effects, has become a good strategy. [1]

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/opinion/republicans-ta...
“The essence of this strategy is to take tax policy out of the hands of experts and entrust it to activists. These campaigns do not usually have much credibility with card-carrying economists. ”
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If it was free with no sides, I'd have it back. I'd probably still crop my hair though, but grade 5 not grade 0.5
David Cancel will probably still sell yet another company for 7+ figures eg https://www.drift.com/
Why didn't you hire his wife when you learned that she wrote these emails?
Well, yeah, that's what the other commentators here misunderstand. Sure the kernel is C, but a non-optional part is assembly in various forms that obviously is not standardized between compilers. So it takes effort to support kernel building. Google paid up and made that happen.
The dark side of me would axe everyone and it would be a bit of cosmic justice. The current healthcare philosophy in America is sprinkled with social darwinism in that you are 'free' to choose what's best for you and if you can't afford it, fuck you, it's your fault, you haven't worked hard enough.

So I would gladly layoff most healthcare administrators and have them figure out what to do, by themselves. It's their fault and their fault only if they can't. “That’s what freedom is all about: taking your own risks.”[1]

Fuck them, this is America, you 'own' your career. I mean, this is the universe I'm currently working in, why shouldn't they be subjected to the same thing? Especially when they chose to work in a parasitic system? If my skills lag behind, I'm unhirable in my industry. Coupled with my increasing age, IT'S ALL MY FAULT AND MY FAULT ONLY if I get fired/laid off and end up with no healthcare.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/krugman-free-to-d...
James Wolfe, 57, Director of Security of the Senate Intelligence Committee for 29 years... leaks intel on Carter Page to his “girlfriend” (she was 21 years old at the time) at BuzzFeed, who publishes a huge scoop and lands a job at the NYT.... [1]

Sounds like a script from House of Cards.

[1] - https://www.nytco.com/ali-watkins-joining-washington-bureau/
Anthony Bourdain's Moveable Feast (2017)
Ancidotal but whenever I shop hungry I buy a lot of junk food, and those costs really add up. I shop at Walmart though which is notorious for subconscious advertising so that might be a pretty big factor
Even for cat5/6 installs ?
SimulaVR (a project to bring Linux Desktop to standalone VR headsets) is using Godot for its next version.

You can see our almost-finished Haskell bindings to Godot here: https://github.com/SimulaVR/godot-haskell
Taxis are a problem, but Uber is not the solution.
No. Everything can be a calling.

Many of us didn't learn coding because it was lucrative, we learned at a young age because the intimate relationship between mind and machine drew us further in. You played a game and wondered how it was programmed, how could a bit of light in the screen could know when other bit of light touched it? It was a challenging and rewarding hobby that luckily turned lucrative. Even if it cost me money, I would still code things as a hobby.

If coding didn't exist, I'm sure I would be doing electronics. Curiously, once I dreamed electronics also didn't exist, so I had to become a watchmaker.
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$ apropos -a change password
chage (1) - change user password expiry information
kpasswd (1) - change a user's Kerberos password
passwd (1) - change user password
PKCS12_newpass (3ssl) - change the password of a PKCS12 structure

$ apropos -a space disk
df (1) - report file system disk space usage
df (1p) - report free disk space
Why? Can those families find housing more easily?
Downvote all you want, but this is a classic case of a nocebo.

"the group informed about the sexual adverse effects of finasteride reported increased incidence of ED, when compared to the group without information"

Ironically, all the fear mongering has made the issue worse.

"To date, there is no evidence-based data substantiating the link between finasteride and persistent sexual side effects in the numerous double blinded, placebo controlled studies using finasteride 1 mg for hairloss."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/
I think this is an A380 feature, needed to accurately steer the thing on the ground. Other airframes of similar age may also have it, though I've been on several 787s and haven't seen anything quite as neat as what the A380s have.
This separation needs to end. The sooner, the better. Alcohol is very much a drug.

"An estimated 88,0008 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women8) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. The first is tobacco, and the second is poor diet and physical inactivity."[0]

[0]https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co...
> for what its worth, i've been taking uber and lyft in quebec for years

Lyft doesn't operate in Canada outside of Ontario. They added Ottawa as their second city in Canada earlier this year (https://blog.lyft.com/posts/coming-to-ottawa).
Except when that "backlash on the internet forums" is a reflection of what is happening in reality which seems to be the case here.
Network.framework isn’t just easier to use, it performs better and is generally safer too.

What this means is that while BSD sockets will continue to work for the foreseeable future, native cocoa apps and cross platform apps with specialized ports will have a leg up in performance, stability, and safety over dumb ports using BSD sockets.

In other words, you’re free to keep using BSD sockets at your own detriment.
Emirates Economy on an a380 was the best economy class I have used.