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Apologies, it's a made up term. It seems fitting though. Rather than plan the todos like it's something anyone else could read, I write them for me. And because they're just for me, I can make them as tiny as I want. My general rule of thumb for writing them is:

1. As I'm writing, if it's in my head as a "oh, that needs to be done", I write it down. Tiny or large.

2. If it's really large, I tend to word the task as to break it up. Otherwise I'll spend a day working on that one item, which defeats the purpose of trying to give my brain dopamine/etc.

3. If at any point in code I think of those "oh, I gotta remember to fix/refactor/add that" I write it down.

It's quick because I don't need to give others context. It's short, because it's just for me and it shouldn't be too far away from my current context anyway. And finally it helps me actually take breaks, and come back getting right into it. I try to never leave without writing what I should do next.

To pair with that, I chose a todo app (Dynalist atm) that I enjoy using. It should be quick to get ideas onto paper so to say, and not bogged down with features. This is more of a notebook, than a todo.

Anyway, it's all an experiment for me. I'm on week two or so of it, and it's been great so far. Good luck if you try it :)

edit: fix stupid list formatting.
Avalara's pricing is here:
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Business loans generally require at least one personal signature, exactly for that reason - if the business tanks and can't make payments itself, then someone is on the line to repay the loan.
http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ … and the full-length new book it inspired… to the heart of what you're saying
Manhattan is in a very unique situation that does not apply to many other cities. even its transit system is beset by thirty four billion dollars of debt even with taxes on tunnels that cars use to support it and money from the state government. plus there are too many stories about service woes and when you pay out more in salaries alone than rider fees how can you expect to stay ahead of the game.

the state of many metropolitan transit systems is very similar, tens of billions in deferred maintenance, high payroll costs, and even worse is not keeping up pensions.

the folly many cities fell into was trying to make light rail work, the idea of build it and they will come did't pan out and some expansions that a few networks have tried were more expensive than the original build. to make up for money short falls and force ridership some agencies resorted t cutting bus service.

can we save transit, sure, but it has to be adapted to how people live and not be built out to change how people live. it needs to be taken out of the hands of politicians who love cutting ribbons on expensive projects that don't deliver. any good transit solution will need to involve better road planning, fully integrated traffic signaling, and pushing to provide better service that earns riders instead of passing laws to try to coerce them
and look at how much their egalitarian society achieved over the hundred thousand years that it has existed.

inequality is how evolution works. something becomes better and dominates. then the next iteration comes, and the next.

having a society that cares more about the distribution of wealth and power rather than its total sum is a dead end. as someone who likes achieving things i also find such a society just morally abhorrent.
The most reasonable and fair replacement would be land value taxes. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Also, SCOTUS did not strike down the nexus requirement, only the specific physical nexus requirement of Quill.

Yes, this is important to note. Still, much of logic involved in the decision makes it sound like in the future nexus may be defined quite loosely, based largely on the states' desire to collect the tax and the practical difficulties involved, rather than just being a redefinition of "substantial nexus". Consider this part:

Under this Court’s decisions in Bellas Hess and Quill, South Dakota may not require a business to collect its sales tax if the business lacks a physical presence in the State. Without that physical presence, South Dakota instead must rely on its residents to pay the use tax owed on their purchases from out-of-state sellers. "[T]he im­practicability of [this] collection from the multitude of individual purchasers is obvious." [[cite]] And consumer compliance rates are notoriously low.

This might be good change socially, but it feels more like the court is pushing a policy change rather than offering a reinterpretation of the constitutional requirements. In this part of the logic, there's no change of the interpretation of nexus (since it's based on only the customer's failure to obey other existing laws), and yet it's used as justification for why the state has a right to demand action from an otherwise out-of-jurisidiction company. Same nexus (or lack thereof), but different constitutionality.

While one would hope for a balance between burden and benefit, I think it points to a much more inclusive concept of nexus. In the absence of a clear national law, until there is a case showing the limits in the other direction, I'd guess that states will pass more and more inclusive laws on who is required to collect on their behalf. We'll likely end up in a situation where a multitude of state laws technically require most retailers to collect, but selective enforcement means that only the large (or unpopular) players are pursued. I didn't like this previous approach of on-the-books but unenforced use taxes, but I'm uneasy about this outcome too.
I'm curious why the board used this old infraction as the justification. As if being allowed to use the standard "leaving to spend more time with family" story would be getting off too easy... Or maybe something something vague would arouse more suspicion? I suppose there is value in an acute, yet unrelated to performance story.
When you're bored with the business and uninspired to do the work then I think it's time to move one. Also if you're deep in debt and not making any money I would say that's a pretty good indicator too.
I would hope that there's more rigor than that. I mean if you're willing to be that dishonest with your sample selection you could select only people who don't have autism and get 100% accuracy.
I think the parent is descriptive for many people, but that's a different issue than prescriptive. We can do much better:

> Is this insensitive? No, it's just sticking to patterns

IMHO, that's the cause of most discrimination. People aren't intentionally discriminatory, but not having experienced it themselves they suffer from the blinders of their own perspective (as humans do), are unaware of the consequences of their actions, and are doing the very human thing of downplaying the magnitude of others' problems. As Mel Brooks (IIRC) said, 'Tragedy is I stub my toe; comedy is you get eaten by a lion.'

That's why people talk about being 'woke' or becoming aware of their 'privilege'. They weren't intentionally insensitive before, but they didn't grasp what they hadn't experienced, and then one day the blinders come off.

> the modus operandi of our mind

The modus operendi of our minds can lead to all sorts of horrible things, from murder to war to theft. We can and do use reason in order to do better, including by learning the pattern of not making assumptions.

> it's a natural thing to do

It's natural to follow patterns, but the pattern isn't natural; it's just one arbitrary pattern we learn. We can learn other patterns, which is how we change and grow. Whole societies learn new patterns; democracy and universal human rights didn't exist until the 18th century (roughly speaking); for all of human history until maybe 50 years ago, women were 'naturally' though of as qualified only for raising babies and maybe some nurturing jobs. Now they fly fighter planes off aircraft carriers and are a majority of new lawyers (IT hasn't figured it out yet, apparently).

> It's very tiresome to watch yourself all day

If you think that's tiresome, imagine facing endless discrimination everywhere you go, from family, co-workers, employers, the person on the bus, the movie, the book, the Reddit thread, etc. Imagine facing the prospect of experiencing that for the rest of your life.

Anyway, we don't have to watch ourselves all day. Just learn something new, and pretty simple. I learned some new Vim techniques recently and now I don't have to watch myself all day, I just use them. I learned to say 'they' awhile ago, and it's now second nature - Vim was harder.
I commented the changes I made to another commenter.

But regarding "feeling" when your blood sugar is high, I didn't feel it. However, I had symtoms of always urinating and really thirsty, my friend (diabetic) recognized the signs and tested me. It was 420.

Starting that day, I changed my life, hard.

To this day, I never "feel" my blood sugar fluctuate. I could get it up to 140, and down to 70, and I wouldn't be able to guess. I mean, I could guess by taking into account what I have eaten recently, but never based on "feeling" alone.
Sometimes the CDN is acting naughty

That's true. The idea of how Ellie was brought to life is outstanding. Huge shoutout to Luke Wetsby for letting us use his codebase for Elchemy

Feel free to share your thoughts and concerns on GitHub or by email! We'd love to hear your opinion and concerns
I think the real reason Sony is so hesitant to implement crossplay is not that they are so far ahead of Microsoft in console sales, but because they are actually quite close in certain markets.

If you look at the global sales, then yes, the PS4 is stomping the Xbox One into oblivion at the moment. If you look at the US sales, the difference between them is much smaller [1]. If Sony enables crossplay, they will probably lose a lot of sales to Microsoft in the US because they lack the overwhelming popularity that they have in Japan and other markets.

This article [2] shows just how poorly the Xbox sells in Japan - the week the Xbox One X launched, only 1,639 were sold. Only 49 units of the less powerful Xbox One S were sold. For comparison, almost 30,000 PS4 and PS4 Pros were sold. Even the PS Vita beat out the Xbox, with around 3,000 sold.

[1] http://www.vgchartz.com/article/271063/ps4-vs-xbox-one-vs-sw...

[2] https://kotaku.com/here-are-the-xbox-one-xs-japanese-sellout...
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How B2B Marketers Can Leverage the Art of Storytelling to Engage Buyers
You said

> you can’t say that a particular person was misclassified, you are making a statement about the calibration of the algorithm

But no one is arguing that a particular person was misclassified; both the article and the study are about results in aggregate being skewed in some way.

> They never define what the desired precision is, but their use of the terms "misclassify" and "false positive" makes sense only if one expects "high risk" to predict recidivism with 100% precision.

They're not trying to find an absolute number for accuracy, they're comparing data for white and black defendants. Excerpt from the ProPublica article below:

> Our analysis found that black defendants who did not recidivate over a two-year period were nearly twice as likely to be misclassified as higher risk compared to their white counterparts (45 percent vs. 23 percent).

In this case, the equation for each race is (defendants who were labeled high risk but didn't recidivate / defendants who didn't recidivate). The accuracy in absolute terms isn't in question here; the claim they are making is that the algorithm mistakenly classifies black defendants as high risk at twice the rate it does white ones.

Note that testing for true positives is different from testing for false positives, and both can be true simultaneously. If of 15 defendants, the algorithm predicts ten will recidivate, of whom six actually do, that gives 60% accuracy with ~45% of those who didn't misclassified as high risk.

(I'm also not sure if you're making the semantic argument that "it just said recidivism was likely, not guaranteed, so even if they don't it's not technically wrong." That's a weird assertion to make; if every high-risk classification never recidivated but every low-risk one did, by that definition the algorithm still wouldn't be "wrong", but it would obviously be broken. Classifying a defendant as high risk is a prediction that they will recidivate, and we can judge the algorithm by whether it turned out to be true.)

I'll also note that other replies to my original comment have been good rebuttals to the ProPublica study specifically, but what they're attempting to do — draw conclusions about false positives based on the "high risk" classifier — makes perfect sense.
The FDA already had a mechanism for this purpose, as did 38 states. After the passing of this bill, Senator Ron Johnson, one of the bill's sponsors, took upon himself the privilege of explaining how it should be implemented to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb (a Trump appointee), apparently because Gottlieb expressed excessive concern for patients' well-being. This raises the possibility that the bill's authors were coy about their intentions, perhaps to avoid them being scrutinized prior to its passage, and I hope the FDA will interpret it as written, and consistently with its broader responsibilities.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/new-drug-access-law-...
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Do you know where the 8-hour work day came from? Because it definitely wasn't an increase in productivity.

Just because our productivity has risen doesn't mean industries wouldn't demand even more production from an increase in hours. Publicly traded companies in fact must continuously grow and increase productivity endlessly so as to increase shareholder value. It's almost a tropism. It's not somebody's conscious conspiracy or mustache-twirling evil plan, it's just the nature of these societal mechanisms we're living with.

And people lived brutal lives for many more reasons besides low labor productivity. I feel like that's a correlation fallacy on your part or something.

I'm a TA in advertising who specializes in motion graphics, rigging, and 3d rendering. My work has shifted from permanent employees to contractors over the last few years, along with the loss of protections that implies. Predictably, working hours have expanded vastly. It's very stressful work and I have virtually no security. This is happening to steadily more people in more industries, including ones that were thought to be too highly educated to be vulnerable. It's a trend that will continue if nobody does anything about it.

You say there's no evidence those conditions can return, but that's a weird negative proof situation. What kind of evidence am I supposed to provide for that, a crystal ball? Trends are already moving in that direction. The decay of the middle class is already happening. Even with all our increases in productivity, people on average just can't afford the benefits that previous generations had, and are less likely to be upwardly socially mobile. And it's only getting worse.

That, combined with the fact that society often defaults to immense wealth divides in multiple cultures all throughout history--transforming the vast majority of people into paupers and serfs--should be proof enough. The secure, prosperous lives we enjoy in the developed world are not the default state. The privileges we take for granted are the result of blood and toil from labor and civil rights movements over the centuries.
The Last of Us is a game created by Naughty Dog, which is a studio that Sony owns. Exclusives like that drive sales of consoles. If you really want to play it without buying a console, you can use the PS Games-Streaming-as-a-service PS Now and play it from your PC. https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstation-now/ps...
Agree - and I don't think the lead New York Times consumer technology reporter would have publicly documented all the reasons why he's switching back to Firefox unless he genuinely felt that way.
- I don't live in SV

- I don't hate taxes

- I wasn't babysitting this thread

- The idea that, of all things, regressive sales tax is the only conceivable and fair thing to get state tax revenues from is ridiculous.

Tax land value, most of the appreciation in land value is windfall gain.
Signing an option contract with a vesting clause. Nothing about options or vesting is inherently tied to employment.
Some states consider SaaS [1] and digital products [2] taxable. Refer to the blog posts below:

[1] https://blog.taxjar.com/saas-sales-tax/
[2] https://blog.taxjar.com/sales-tax-digital-products/
The "entirely different" part is about specific claims about language.

There are many different ways animals are able to communicate with each other, and with humans. Sounds, gestures, songs, body language, scents, and so on.

They can get quite creative, they can be used to communicate emotion, they can indicate that the animals have some sense for the mental state of who they are communicating with, and so on. Almost all of this is fairly obvious to anyone who's ever owned a pet (though there are plenty of cases in which there can be some subjective bias there, so it can be good to devise better tests if you're really skeptical).

But none of them have been demonstrated to have the arbitrarily complex, abstract, compositional nature that human language does; in which a finite (but large) set of words or signs can be strung together in arbitrarily complex ways, allowing a countably infinite number of different ideas to be potentially conveyed.

This is qualitatively different than any other communication method that has been demonstrated in other animals.

There's no dogma about it; it's just something that is unique to humans, as far as we know, just like the amazing ability to manipulate skin color and texture is something that's unique to cuttlefish. There are some things that certain kinds of animals can do that other kinds of animals can't, like flight, breathing via water or air, producing venoms, and so on.

It would be a pretty big scientific breakthrough to discover that there was some mammal that could change its skin like cuttlefish, or to discover that a mammal could be trained to breath water.

Likewise, discovering that non-human animal can learn a human-like language, with its arbitrary complexity through compositionality and ability to express abstract thought, is a pretty big claim too. The problem is, some people make this claim, without sufficient evidence to back it up.
What if you do not have confidence in America's economy, long-term? What do you invest in, then?
I don't think that management is behind the times. I think that the fundamental problem is that management has no real way to value individual contribution, and thus no way to pay people according to their value, rather than tradition, random guessing, or whatever their peers make. It's easy with salespeople, which is why so many work independently. It's much, much harder with an engineer or product designer.

Remote work requires better ability to follow the money through the process and that kind of close accounting is very threatening to a lot of people.

I also think that if we invested similar sums of money to what we spend on office space instead on collaboration technology, you'd see the effectiveness differential between remote and onsite work go down substantially.
You could build more bike lanes and add transit only lanes. Build out from the city core, and expand it to outlying areas. Prove its value by showing people that alternatives to cars can actually be better.

For example if there was an express buss between Bellevue and the U District that didn't have to sit behind cars crossing Lake Washington, I think it would be pretty popular.

The chicken and egg problem is hard to crack. Not enough transit riders -> high car usage -> not enough transit riders -> ...

If we all throw up our hands and say "too hard" it's only going to get worse. Growing up in Seattle and Tacoma, it was pretty frustrating to hear about the supposed light rail connection between the two that's been promised and delayed countless times over the last 20+ years.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_process
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Where do you get to see the list of providers?
We kind of do on Windows, thanks PowerShell and PowerShell IDE.
Has anybody heard from YC's New Cities project, by the way? Should we assume it's disbanded? https://cities.ycr.org/
Sounds like a use case for zstd with custom dictionary.
That's not even close to showing it as a non-issue.

I'll share one example, what happens if a landlord of an older / aging building filled with rent-controlled tenants wants to tear it down and replace with newer and denser construction? Can they just evict the tenants? If not, then that parcel of land is effectively unbuildable. Multiply that by how much rent controlled housing NY has (quite a bit) and it's not difficult to see how it impacts creating of new housing.
Sure, but at least MA/CT sales tax is just above 6%, while CA is pushing 9%.

The bigger picture is that if one wants to live close to family and friends in New England, they're still able to move and pay 0% sales and state earned income taxes. Whereas if one wants to live close to family and friends in CA, they're completely over the barrel.
It seems like this author doesn't quite understand what they're trying to communicate here. I'm surprised this was published by the Atlantic which I generally regard as a competent media property. There's some fundamental misunderstandings of how finance works and what the DOW is vs. other indexes.

For example, he doesn't seem to understand that a company's valuation (his Amazon reference) is a function of its discounted future cash flows, not present value.
Depends on the city. You can't really do it in Atlanta unless you can afford to live near a stop.
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I read thousands of books, but never learned to write eloquently until I was 18 and was taught to write by someone very experienced at teaching writing. He went through dozens of essays with a red pen, tightening constructions and arguments. I'm convinced that doing is the only way to learn writing, and if you can get 1-on-1 guidance and detailed feedback, it can hugely accelerate the process.

That said, also read

* William Zinsser "How to write well". It's a very practical classic that improved my writing by a factor of two or more after one reading, and I found it enjoyable enough to read it more than once.

* Mark Forsyth "The Elements of Eloquence". Also highly enjoyable while remaining very practical (it also took several readings to remember a lot of the points he made, but it's reasonably short and each of the many sections are independent, so it's easy to open it up and learn something in 2-3 minutes).

If anyone is interested in the intersection of technology and writing eloquently, pull requests to https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/... are very welcome
Just a quick point of correction - be careful not to confuse an Index with an Index fund. You are talking about ETFs, which come in Index fund varieties, but the Index exists as a market indicator, not for the purpose of creating a fund. ETF providers use indices to create a very simple to maintain trading strategy and investment vehicle for low management cost, but they do not create the indexes.
For some reason it's very hard to build 26-dimensional machines in a 4-dimensional universe.
>In the Big Data world, we didn’t see much talk about columnar data until Google’s Dremel paper in 2010

Try 2005:

http://db.csail.mit.edu/projects/cstore/#papers

We had a very large Vertica installation up in 2009.

But as Abadi has noted it's an in-memory format, and it removes a lot of bottlenecks at the CPU-Memory interface. In that sense it's quite new; we've been wrestling with tricky in-memory formats for some time.
Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US.