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In a free market, rent will always be higher than cost of a property. If it were less, the property is an unprofitable investment and should be divested.

This article drops critical context. 10 years ago, one of the earliest and most potent warning signs of the coming collapse was the extreme disparity between rents and mortgages. Home prices skyrocketed while rents remained relatively flat. And just a couple years before that, there were weekly newspaper articles about the unprecedented reversal of the rent-to-mortgage ratio.
Smoking is dumb and deadening.

Vaporizing is for the gods.

Level up, friend.
Yeah, meanwhile the actual user friendly solution is simple. Make the no-tracking no-bullshit version the default one, and add an opt-in somewhere, maybe in a banner at the top.
Use a different password for each phpBB and other forums. Manage them all using LastPass or some other password manager.

If they get hacked and you lose that password, so what? They can only impersonate you on that forum.
I was thinking he's referencing Verne's "Voyage au centre de la Terre".
>If you go to the current issue, how many negative articles about the USA and UK can you count?

Many, that criticize those countries from the perspective of what the power elites of those same countries want them to do.
Facebook does a wonderful job logging what you do but is this actually using facebook data or just analyzing what you do while it's running on the browser?
I suspect that both Netflix and Prime are run like an engineering company, while Hulu is run like a media/marketing company.
The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (1999)
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Apparently I am not allowed to read this article without consenting to being tracked. Not worth it.
> But maybe there's no riddle after all... just Joyce being a dick. This is my preferred theory. The guy was a dick or just mocking the academics - nothing more, nothing less.

Aka the "everybody else is an idiot for not getting it except me" theory...

How about it's just that literature or specifically 20th century literature isn't your thing?
I guess I'll be leaving 500px then...
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Lord of the Rings is Amazon
Sorta, if the red-green is purely design and doesn't serve a functional purpose it would be fine.

Ideally if you design some UI, do it in Black and White first, if it remains usable and somewhat pretty, add colors.
If they can charge for it, they are going to charge for it. Since there's no competition, there's no pressure to not charge the highest price.

Now that Netflix or other streaming services threaten this business model, the old guard is scrambling to get back to the same business model.
Then how would subtype polymorphism work?
Ancient version of proof of work! Difficult to perform, quick to verify, completely useless.
Approaching? I could already save about 1/3 of my monthly payments by getting a mortgage instead. The only issue is the deposit to get the mortgage, it's hard to save up enough money as it is.
People do subscribe for the content, but the tech still has to work well for people to continue subscribing. If the stream stutter or otherwise fail constantly, the user experience is gonna drive customers away. Tech is a functional requirement, not a feature.
What isn't mentioned in this article is any commentary regarding the falling rates of home ownership in various countries compounded with rapid price increases (driven by low rates and zoning policies). This is particularly acute as it appears to be driven predominately by a generational gap as opposed to a socio-economic gap. Pitting the young against the old is never a good thing.

What is also missed completely is the rise of the professional share house. How many professional people on high incomes are now forced into multi-person rental accommodation due to affordability concerns.
That's essentially the same as not voting. Pragmatically, your three choices are Democrat, Republican, or "whatever the rest of the country decides".

(That's if you live in a swing state; in a solidly red or blue state, "whatever the rest of the country decides" is really your only option.)
As a red-green colourblind male. I'd temper that statement to don't mix red and green for encoding information. Ideally don't use colour as the sole means of encoding information anywhere.

The experience of colourblind people can vary wildly but for me other colours are harder to discern than red vs green. Blues, purples and pinks all are all very tricky.

If however you want to use red and green for some styling element, knock yourself out!
I you're taking "fear" slightly too literally for the purposes of this idea.

In a way, in the extreme, it is literal: in a healthy democracy, the citizens are so comfortable in their sovereignty that they would be willing as a last resort to forcibly, physically remove a despotic leader. But healthy democracies also have strong institutions that will check such a leader and eventually replace him peacefully - so this fear is mostly theoretical.

In the more symbolic sense, the "fear" is simply to be understood as the citizens having the absolute power to get rid of their leaders through the democratic process. If you want to be a leader, and if you want to stay in office, you basically have to keep the people happy (very broadly speaking, of course), there are no shortcuts in the long run for this. It's "fear" in the sense of "fearing the next election".
Interesting! Germany seems to be in the situation you described as "10 years ago".
Just to add probably the millionth example to this, I currently have a nothing job where I show up for work every day, read the news, play on my phone, network, and generally sit around doing very little. It was not always this way, I used to do work as a developer, then I moved several times, now I work in a special projects team that have no defined remit.
The team had a remit when set up and has existed officially for 2 years but the original head was fired 8 months in, and since then the team has had no purpose. We tried for a while to revive the team and have the original remit reinstated, but efforts of myself and others were in vain. For probably the last 9 months I have had no defined job to do, so I swan around some days trying to be useful, others trying to do nothing (depending wholly on my whim) but always trying to look busy (which I am not). The company is massive so I contribute to internal open source projects when I want to, and have recently started looking for another job in company time as I am mind-numbingly bored. Reading this story was like reading someone living the life I've had for the last 9 months, but with them actually seeking to prolong it (which I don't want to)...

While it's nice to know others are in this boat, it's depressing that any company lets this happen, particularly when I see people working hard at much less well paid things: the cleaners are working much harder than I!
Oh cheers. That does make a lot more sense.

I was slightly disconcerted that the Economist would just throw in that line, as a matter of trivial fact. It's like a major discussion concluded without my knowledge.
People learn differently. For me, it was probably they best book I have ever read to learn programming. Before that I only knew PHP from web tutorials and even functions weren’t obvious to me (I knew what they did, I just almost never used them because by the time I knew what the function was, I already inadvertently reused a lot of code – I still have one of my early websites with over 2000 lines of code in a single file and only two functions with 10 lines code each! It is an absolute nightmare to read but it worked). Head first java brought all those concepts to me in a way I understood and could apply and benefit from.

What you are describing is a problem I see with a lot of people who learn programming. They want to apply what they have learned in a way that is different from a few modified example. When they learn python, after chapter one or two, the most common question is: but how do I build a GUI because the command line is very foreign to them. People often don’t have enough patience, or motivation to learn a whole book and not be able to do something remotely useful. I’m glad you got into it by learning something that really interested you with computers (unfortunately this is really hard these days because everybody I know either wants to program GUIs or Games).

I know some who got into programming by writing Minecraft plugins. That allowed them to apply what they learn to something really useful and fun. But I also like Apple’s approach with Swift. Children get immediate graphical feedback of what they have written. It’s certainly not something that teenagers have a lot of fun with (because “it is silly”) but children might really enjoy learning that way. Websites are probably another good example. Writing working JavaScript and html is really easy these days and a website is useful for a lot of people.
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Enlisting the help of friends and family can only get you so far, so how do you gather quality feedback pre/post-launch, without shelling out for a professional agency to do the testing?
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15GB EU roaming? I thought the EU got rid of that nonsense?
Google Translate (to English) works really well on this article.
You are in many ways correct. Except that styling often crosses over into encoding information without the styler realizing it.
Anything with probability and randomness tends to break my brain but I find it fascinating.

If I interpret the 200-years-late solution correctly, it relied to a large part on trial and error (like one "trick" is to focus on adjacent rows, which seems to be more of a "hunch" than a deep, mathematical strategy). Things like this make me wonder why so many modern encryption standards rely on "simple" mathematical concepts that are easily testable (even if testing might take a million years). Even if that's your base, why not throw some random algorithms on top, like swapping every 7th symbol, reversing the whole thing and then adding a random one in the middle. Wouldn't that immediately make it more tedious to decipher at not much of an additional cost? Is this done anywhere?
The closest might be game/software subscription. You pay Steam a monthly fee, and have access to their entire backlog of games.
Can we put a ban on the analysis of consumer behavior?

And can we stop measuring the growth/success of the economy by how many redundant items are bought?
I believe I did that.

Regarding that guideline, are commenters supposed to follow a similar guideline in how to interpret the source material, or are they free to make a weaker interpretation that is easier to criticize?

Because one of my objections was how the article said that sedation was used on someone both handcuffed and strapped down, while the OP gave examples where someone handcuffed was sedated, and someone strapped down was sedated, but not both. That seems criticizing a weaker topic than what the article described.

Similarly the article presented a case where someone was both physically restrained and chemically sedated, while the OP described chemical sedation as an alternative to physical restraint. That too feels like criticizing a weaker topic than what the article described.

JshWright, to whom I replied, in another branch of this thread kindly commented "I think your comment is thoughtful and contributes meaningfully to the conversation."
A nice video explainer from scishow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz6v6OfoQvs
Would take legal steps to get two booking.com apartments removed from our little apartments house, but there is nothing we can do.
Guests smoke and bang doors (wooden house amplifies these sounds) and we just have to suck it up.
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Im assuming they are referring specifically to exploitative games like the mobile idle genre where you always have to do something and you really cant leave the game alone if you want to "maximize" everything.

Im playing Bloodborne right now and its 2-4 hours a day just because of how the game is made. I will die horribly and just put the game away for the day.

Other games, like Minecraft, is just a co-op sandbox. A social hangout. All it needs is a treadmill, and its good enough for me.
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Pretty much any news organization that doesn’t have to register as a foreign agent would be ok.
Cool! With CocoaPods building everything from source, a fast compiler would be a godsend for most iOS shops, even for just debug builds.

It should be pretty easy to add Objective-C and C++ support, right? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Generally it is better to have a context with a well defined lifetime rather than the other two options.

Additionally thread safety puts very stringent requirements on global state, further making singletons and language goals worthless with few exceptions.
Hi yes some times I click my tong, but it's not a magic thing or a super power! The way it works is it helps you to sense how big a room is or how close you are too a wall. The sound bounces back off hard surfaces. If you stand in your bath room and click your tong and then walk out and go in to your kitchen, then do it again you will here the sound is verry different. I am all so pretty good at playing Killer Instinct. I started playing on the snes and now I play on xbox. I haven't played for a few months now. I am not as good as this dude:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-03-29-meet-the-blind...
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huh? In a very real sense I read Dubliners last month.
I suspect there are reasons why people with convictions for deception and fraud are particularly likely to be attracted to ICOs other than the reluctance of accounting software firms to hire them...
Criticizing religion has often risked death or imprisonment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition is perhaps the most well known due to the use of torture. In theory they limited themselves to the baptized, but as baptism occurred so young that's a meaningless distinction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anusim is interesting as it's a category of forced conversion, but makes no mention of what they where forced to Catholic/Islam/whatever. When communism outlawed other religions it was doing the same thing as occurred in many other times and places.
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The proposals laid out by politicians in the article, bear no sense of the hidden costs of zoning :-(

Anecdotal:
Visited a friend in London a while ago, she bought her terrace "house" (2 stories, a width of 5 meters) for 500k GBP in Wimbledon. The condition of that thing screamed "landmarked" and "dump" at the same time, while all I heard was "artificial scarcity"...
Seems like this is for playing local files only. From what I can tell, both parties need the same file on their computer to play.
Not entirely, no. From what I understand, a provider is allowed to limit you in roaming to the volume you'd get at a set rate (I believe right now at around 7 €/GB, with set steps reducing it the next years) for the price of your plan.

So if you pay 50 € per month, your provider is allowed to cap you at 50€/(7€/GB) = ~7 GB while roaming.
"...ending...": in fact, it has just begun..
There's a long way until this 'agreement' becomes a 'reality' (referendum and constitutional changes in FYROM and then vote in both parliaments). But most importantly the will of the people has been ignored so only the near future will show what will actually happen.

For a historical reference about this issue and the Greek identity of Macedonia:
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/6265/was-alexand...
Now that Greece recognizes Macedonias heritage as it's own, it's time to pay back reperations to Turkey, Iran and India for plundering and killing by Alexander the Great.
Although I don't think living in 1 room when you're alone (or maybe a couple) in necessarily bad, I can't understand how living with a whole family in a single room can be ok.

I mean, how are you supposed to have sex when your parents / children are in the same room? How can you get a good quality of sleep when other people are awake in the same room or when you are forced to go to bed because other people want to sleep? How can you focus when doing your homework is the room someone is watching TV or playing video games?

I know sometimes you don't have the choice, but I can't see it as something good or even neutral.
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Looking forward to see these PDP-6 or PDP-10 applications:

* TECO

* DDT

* Spacewar

* Dazzle Dart

* Game of Life

* MacHack VI

* Stanford University Drawing System

* SHRDLU

* Logo turtle graphics
Small countries have two big advantages:

1. If government does something really bad (e.g., become am evil dictatorship), the majority of the population just moves 50 km and is suddenly in another country. Businesses move much earlier, so there is lots of tax competition.

2. Corrupt politicians still need to shop and go to the bakery. In small countries you can get easily "hated by the people", making your life miserable. That or the occasional stone in your house's window. Everybody knows where you live.

The above two are concrete countermeasures available to the general population against today's standard default "democracy against the will of the people."

Compare that to the administrative cities of Washington, Brussels (as EU capital), Brasilia, where no ordinary people live (at least they're physically separated) and where you'd need to move hundreds of kilometers in order to become resident of another country.
And if you were an elderly Greek, and saw your (not very generous to begin with by Eurozone norms) pension cut by 75% in order to save some German banks ? Would you consider that "failed" assessment to be fair ?

Investors, by contrast, might say that despite all the damage done to Eurozone economies (most, but of course, not all, Eurozone economies, ie. the PIIGS), European banks are ... well "teetering on the edge of bankruptcy" is perhaps not a fair assessment, but they're ~90% closer to it than they were at the beginning of the Euro project.

Savers, bond investors, ... have similar complaints : they haven't been able to invest productively.

And for what ? Even if they were altruistic : GDP hasn't exactly taken off in the Eurozone, in fact quite the opposite. Even Germany's GDP evolution can at best be referred to as "not a disaster". Greece's would be far beyond "catastrophe", and everyone else is in between.

But yes, 25 year olds who have a stable job find travel easier (of course, that's because the economic misery of others makes travel cheaper, otherwise the Euro would just have made it more obvious that they couldn't travel)
There's a reason why you can't afford to live in America
I think this effect happens of the many distractions in life.

Whenever I open a new tab it shows a list of the most popular search trends. I forget what I was supposed to search because fomo.

To combat this I have a to do list app where I conveniently list all distractions and forget about them. It's easy too because I know I have that saved for later.
> If you could come up with a model that works better than just bluntly delineating by race, that would be great.

Uhm, don't delineate by race. Trying to fix this by forcing equality of outcome is akin to trying to manage your resources in a 'planned' economy, you will always do more damage then good.

If you have the money to spend, then spend it by fighting poverty, pull more people into the middle class.
> And can we stop measuring the growth/success of the economy by how many redundant items are bought?

We need people to mindlessly buy stuff they don't want want/need in order to grow our <strike>house of cards</strike> economy.
Nitpick: His book is titled correctly "Finnegans Wake", not "Finnegan's Wake".
Neat. Though the name is a misnomer. It uses Unicode, and not the ASCII subset, to handle characters like ┼ (Box Drawings Light Vertical and Horizontal) and ╰ (Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right). The latter wasn't even part of cp437.
I've worked for both types of companies, and I prefer product companies.
But that's possibly a matter of preference.

Consulting is more dynamic and you're exposed to many different projects and probably to many different technologies. I had a good time doing it, but it was for a very good company which is remembered by all former employees: DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.) DEC was acquired by Compaq, which in turn was acquired by HP.

You need to travel and your work place and team is constantly changing, as you work at the client's office usually and teams are determined by availability and budget.
If you work for a big consulting firm, chances are that once you leave a project you won't come back to it, and that can lead to solutions that work in the short term to meet the project deadlines, but are otherwise bad solutions for the long term.

Practices can vary greatly among different consulting firms, some will treat you well, others will simply sell warm bodies as you point out.

Working for a product company means having less or no travel at all, and a stable team to work with. It means also having much better care for quality and long term planning, because you or your colleagues will also be taking care of bug fixing and new features.

You're in touch with the business and the day to day customer issues and needs, which brings a greater understanding of the system you're working on.

However, the technology stack will be less diverse for obvious reasons.

Culture fit is also much more important as your team is not likely to change for a few years.
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> Forums are the biggest thing I'll miss

I miss Usenet :-) Back in the day, any FAQ posted to Usenet was gold. I always wondered, "How do these brilliant people know to make a FAQ and why do stupid people never make FAQs". And recipes. Every recipe posted to the internet was amazing.

Being older, I blamed forums for the demise of the internet :-)
I just can't understand how this happens. I know it does, since I have a friend to which this did happen, but it was a govt job and they are known to be wasteful with budget.

For a private enterprise, the budget can't possibly be this free!?
Which will of which people was ignored?
A good type system can affect the compiled code through valuable static analysis, though. Recognising when optimisations are possible via type restrictions or techniques like monomorphising is an important part of modern typed compilers.
What has happened that makes vanilla a bad game in 2018?
Wait, what? 50 milliseconds per line of code? How is that even possible?
> In a free market, rent will always be higher than cost of a property. If it were less, the property is an unprofitable investment and should be divested.

That's assuming you finance your property with debt and let someone else pay for your debt. If you either happen to own a property you don't use, or own the property you live in, it makes perfect sense.

You're describing everything that's wrong about the property market: owner expecting properties to magically create money out of someone else's labour.
Thanks! Regarding the Kelly Criterion—that's a great idea, I'll look into it!

I think we were off to a good start after Morocco vs Iran (for which we had significantly different predictions and got it right), but lost quite a bit with Danemark vs Peru (we had Peru as favorite).
It comes from the time where TV and electronic devices could be either completely switched off, or in sleep mode (ie can react to remote control): the red LED made it clear the device was not completely switched off. Nowadays, this is obviously useless as most electronic devices cannot be switched off anymore, yet the tradition remains.
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