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I don't understand the need for this statement:
"I'm not disagreeing with you, just curious about your point of view."

What does it matter if you disagree with him or not?
Sure, but if you believe the scooter-sharing market will end up being dominated by a few companies (because consumers will prefer to use whichever company is most likely to have a scooter available wherever they are), then it's not unreasonable to bet on one particular scooter-sharing company ending up with a large percentage of that market.
And I still can't find any advantages (even in the article) except "you have to try it".

For me, if the "digging in" distance and spring-out resistance is satisfactory it's a good keyboard. I only can't stand the laptop flat ones
The “separate carbon from stone” step is not 100% efficient
Can border collies deliver packages too?

I can see a battle for jobs developing, between border collies and drones. Just as the fledgling drone industry was starting to take off.
Are you saying that 64 bit CPU + 64 bit CPU = 128 bit CPU (as long as they are time synced)?

1. It doesn't work this way
2. Why would you want a 4096 bit CPU?
> I wish I had gotten one of the full-size desktop Thinkpad-style USB keyboards, back when they still made them.

They stopped? That's a shame, I was hoping they'd work out their quality issues. I really liked mine except that it seldom registered the letter j. Which was a real problem for me as a vi user. Not to mention typing passwords. I have the endura pro now, mainly for the pointing stick, but I find that the implementation is nowhere near as good as trackpoint. Also the endura pro seems to draw a heck of a lot of current.
i have an anecdote that you might find interesting..

many moons ago when i was an undergrad, there was this one class that i hated. i got practically nothing out of it. and the reason was that the professor had prepared all the course material in powerpoint. every damn proof, every single block of code.. everything. he would come in and read the deck, line by line in the class. i can trace my hatred of powerpoint to that single class. i remember thinking "i can read damnit. if you're going to read the powerpoint back to me, why don't you email that to me and i can read it on my own. i am not a toddler that needs to be read to by an adult".

prepare ahead of time - by all means. plan the coursework, the lecture. but whatever you do, don't read your prepared material to the class.

incidentally, i was also taking a class on public speaking at the same time. and near the end of the semester we each had to give a speech as our final "project". and one gent stood out - Sean (don't remember his last name) - he put up one poster and gave a 20 minute speech that i remember to this day after some 20 years or so. he didn't "read down" to us with a wall of prepared material.

since then i have sat through countless presentations/meetings. i can recall any presentation as vividly as i remember Seans'.

P.S.: Sean, if you find this, you convinced me that day that BMWs are the ultimate driving machines.
I have (more than a little dusty) degree in economics, and I still don't understand what this article is trying to tell me.

Is it telling me that when unemployment is low, central bank policy is to raise interest rates? If so, why not say that? What I meant is that generally I don't see how the sentences in this article add up to .. an article. It's a bunch of metrics, chosen by convention, expressed in cliche. It kind of sounds like it's telling us a theory or opinion about something, but it isn't really.
> For example, why is rape wrong? Easily answered with God: because he said so.

This is exactly the non sequitur that I pointed out. Not even a God’s say-so could change “objective” morality, if it existed. He can change the sea to red, but he can’t change what “red” is in any meaningful way.

Also, the quote has the other suspicious feature of this trope: it assumes that that which is objective is knowable, even tautologically obvious and workable in every case. It’s the “simple matter of programming” of the amateur philosophical world.

My point here is not about the relatively boring questions of God’s existence or of the nature of morality. My point is that those conversations are psychological, not philosophical. They’re the sublimated terror at the unbearable lightness of being, to borrow a titular phrase, which is so raw and unprocessed that it manifests in a hysterical inability to see the absurdity of appealing to objectivity as a proxy for control over existential circumstance. This is how God died. Not by mere disbelief, but by the realization that not even He could animate either values or morals.
GDP was still increasing in the late 90s in the US. The recession didn't start until March 2001.
Roads are way more expensive to maintain than a track, which is why rail is cheaper than road shipping costs.

Cities that aren’t big at all like Bern really show off the advantage of mass transit infrastructure.
Correction without direction doesn't explain the problem. I figured out what you meant, however it doesn't help the author correct their mistake.
Raising a child and being liked are two different agendas and at times are at odds.

Best advice don't be your child's friend be parent plenty of peers who can be friends but none that can be parents.
The Economist just went through a month-long series on the faults of economists and the field. I'm sure they'd be able to go into more detail, but this seems to be one of their more simplified articles.
> I think capitalism can handle it just fine.

I think there's a lot of truth to that view. But the way SV VCs and the current capitalist environment operate are a bit strange. I think that's what the article tries to shine a light on.

SV VC capitalism is extremely motivated to find new, nifty companies that will dominate and own new, nifty "tech" niches -- even if they're never profitable.

People care about this because the tech industry provides so much of the economy's growth. The underlying question is: why is so much cash lavished on businesses that, in general, are not profitable? What opportunities are being missed in the larger economy?

What is it about our overall system that means that companies that attack America's really vital problems (health care cost control/transparency, health care mistakes, health care inefficiency, public health problems, elementary education inefficiency, relatively high murder rates, high death rates from car accidents, infrastructure repair backlogs in big cities, the shortage of seats at the elitist colleges, opioid addiction and death) do not get this high level of funding?
Increasing memory capacity is not a sound argument that most people no longer need to write C. Most people don't write C because it's easier to abstract away the knobs C provides for faster productivity, not because we have so much hardware we don't need to care. But it sounds like you're saying most people don't need to write in C because they don't need to be efficient, which is silly.

I despise running non-native desktop applications on a workstation with 128GB RAM because the developers often think it doesn't matter how much memory they use if there's a lot of it. That's frustrating and lazy, and it means I'm paying for their time savings with my hardware resources. "Unused memory is wasted memory!" they say, except I would happily use as much memory as possible, but the nth Electron app prevents me from running something else.

C and its derivatives have disappeared from web applications (particularly the frontend), but it's painful to forgo them for desktop and systems applications.
AMA? Would be interesting to hear more.
Well, I think first you need autonomy without direction before you can figure out what you want to do. Without space to be bored, it's hard to find the time to be creative, IMO.
One underlying reason for VCs making bad investments could be recent fiscal policies pushing interest rates way down. This causes large investors (e.g. pension funds) to look for returns in historically riskier investments, leading to much more money than usual being invested in VC funds. This leaves VCs with a huge pile of cash and looking for companies to fund which means they will make riskier investments than usual (including investing larger dollar amounts than normal). All of this, in turn, leads to a potential bubble with all the negative impacts we've experienced in past bubbles.

This may not be a huge deal if it's confined to the tech startup space. But these large investors are not putting all their eggs in one basket, they're spreading money out into many other industries like housing, financials, emerging markets, etc. If this large amount of money chasing returns has the same effect in these other industries, then we have the beginnings of systemic risk. This is now a very big deal for everyone.
Wage growth is not everything. Low financial risk is another important consideration. The average Joe is some countries is ridiculously exposed, despite the supposed wealth of the nation.
>Remember when you could quickly FTP a file, toss up a web page, email someone a zipped file. Can’t do any of that now without jumping through hoops.

Oh I remember all right. I've spent weeks of my life yelling into a phone "no PASV. You have to find where it says PASV and check it"

Toss up a web page? On what, Geocities? (back to the ftp thing are we?)

Email a file? Great. I hope its less than 2mb or it might just vanish somewhere along the way...

Dropbox. Wordpress. Slack. This stuff is 100x better for the average user than a decade ago. 1000x better than 2 decades ago.

The real trouble is all of this means just about nothing when you're afraid to go to the doctor because your deductible is more than a decent used car.
Facebook Gave Special Data Access to 52 Companies Including Chinese Firms
Yes, kids and young adults now commit less violent crime and less likely go into bloody fights. I mean, for all the "kids behaved better for thousands years", I actually went out of way to check how people in the past acted and it was not so rosy.

On average, the kids raised like this tend to do what autority tell them when autority is present. It is different when autority is not present and they are in presence of weaker kids.
> Is it telling me that when unemployment is low, central bank policy is to raise interest rates? If so, why not say that?

Raising rates aren’t the only way to solve the problem of (a) people who could be in the labour market but aren’t and (b) insufficient labour in the places it needs to be.

Whatever it’s trying to do, it got me thinking about barriers to hiring in New York City. Are there steps we could eliminate or consolidate? Last week’s primary just saw my former bartender and taco server effectively become a Congresswoman for Queens. An article about the central bank and unemployment would not have prompted me to consider discussing this with her.
I mean, this is also reflected in their ethos:

> we offered an opinionated way of managing teams and it turned out not enough people shared our opinion. In hindsight this is pretty obvious since workflows are kinda like opinions in that everyone has one. I think this is why tools like JIRA and Trello are so successful. They let you decide how to manage your workflow.

It's not a bad thing, it's just a thing.
They understand something simpler earlier: a name/word for something [a noun] is in the set ("manmade object", "animal", "neither of these").

Classifiers built on classifiers referring to classifiers that make them laugh or cry; new knowledge is not built on random initiation weights. It is based on physiological imperatives that start before any of us were born.

More data, more generations, more generalization.
You’re not the one investing at that valuation, so why do you care?
A building going up or a pipeline getting laid necessitates an enormous amount of government activities. The idea of having a simple standardized output would be just too onerous is absolute nonsense.

Further, saying that the detail necessary for NYC is overkill for a rural county is just bunk. Yes, of course NYC would have more detail. Do you think a rural county is going to be overloaded plotting their dozen streets?

The whole "better things with tax dollars" bit is really the cherry on the top.
Oil is an example of you can have a volatile commodity despite being very big, traded and needed. This goes out of the understanding of simple reporters and economists who simplify the world to the simple equations they were taught in econ 101.
Using IoT Edge as a gateway is a popular and supported scenario: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/iot-edge-as-...
Because it could potentially hurt the rest of the investment ecosystem.
I think there are different concepts of "cost" and "expensive" at play in this discussion which can lead to this kind of misunderstanding.

Having the population located in dense urban areas is more efficient and therefore cheaper in terms of the real resources that are required: infrastructure is cheaper to build, distances are smaller so that less time is wasted commuting and transport is cheaper (not to mention that highly efficient public transport becomes viable).

So in real resource terms, urban sprawl is more expensive.

But since land is still a limitation and zero-sum, competition can drive up housing costs in attractive dense urban areas to the point where it more than cancels out the efficiency gains of the urban density, and the cost of living in the urban area to the individual becomes higher than the sprawl.

This is why some sort of collective planning is required to make sure that as much as possible of the efficiency gains of urbanization are actually realized. This means having proper infrastructure mostly in terms of public transport.

(Of course, the other part of it is that you need to be careful not to look at just housing costs in the first place. For example, I don't even have to pay for a car, and I benefit from city infrastructure in many other ways.)
Here are a couple of interesting and crucially related graphs:

- Nonfarm Business Sector: Real Compensation Per Hour [1]

- Nonfarm Business Sector: Real Output Per Hour of All Persons [2]

- Real Median Personal Income [3]

Nonfarm business sector is defined as "a subset of the domestic economy and excludes the economic activities of the following: general government, private households, nonprofit organizations serving individuals, and farms. The nonfarm business sector accounted for about 77 percent of the value of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2000."

I think many of these articles were influenced by an earlier Pew study which showed a sharp disconnect between income and productivity. But their study excluded supervisor positions and only counted wages - not overall compensation. The data I'm presenting here seem to show relatively strong wage growth over time. Interestingly enough median personal income, by contrast, has not grown nearly as rapidly. I present these data as a question more than an answer.

But we do live at a time when developers, engineers, and many other 'normal' white collar jobs are going into 6 figures early in their career. And on the other end I know there are also plenty of people making healthy 6 figure salaries doing things like working on offshore rigs (not to mention getting schedules like 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off). And for general low skill work you have fast food/coffee managers making $40-$50k. It could be that all of these sharp increases in wages are somehow being offset by other jobs having seen substantial decline in wages, or it could be that somehow the market dynamics have changed in ways that certain measurements might not accurately reflect. I'm not really sure, though I'm increasingly leaning towards the latter.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB

[2] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB

[3] - https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=MEPAINUSA672N
For financial transactions, it would certainly allow for fast high-precision floating point math. Imagine IEEE 754 4096-bit floats. Not sure anyone would actually use this, and you'd still have to standardize the rounding precision, but it might be an interesting vein of research.

Still, I agree with you -- what the OP described is not a 4096-bit processor.

Now highly-synchronized VMs -- that's an entirely different matter. Probably a boatload of use cases for those.
Highlighting works however don’t highlight as you read. Instead, once you have read a page, think about what on the page needs highlighting and highlight.
If I'm understanding the Huygens paper linked in one of the other comments correctly, this is strictly in-datacenter only; it relies on properties of datacenter networking that don't apply to the broader internet, in particular that routes are mostly symmetric and mostly low-latency.
It's a thing for a company to do that internally. It's a bad thing, as evidenced by sprintly's failure, for a company offering a SaaS product in this space.
One biotech person's perspective is that these are changes in the right direction. Things were certainly not perfect in the pre-AIA era, but post-AIA and recent court decisions have had many negative impacts on our industry, particularly diagnostics and particularly new ventures. The uncertainty associated with an “issued” patent has decimated their value, to the loss of innovation in our industry.
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Of course it would remove the wiki aspect where a better, canonical source is available. For the same reason that my local library doesn't use a wiki library catalogue. That doesn't prevent the wiki aspect for non-canonical data. I hardly see tagging standardization as a big road block.
Out of curiosity, what are the features of HomeKit that give you confidence in its security? I ask so I can have another data point in my mind.

It's definitely our goal to have a large ecosystem, of both hardware and software.
Browser extensions that say they help with comparison shopping are a very common type of "Potentially Unwanted Application" (PUA - aka malware with a legal team). The infamous Superfish is an example of this type of thing, and there are many others.

I don't know anything about your business or the extension, I'm just pointing out that you're in a space that makes you suspicious by association.
> the threat of being screamed at and intimidated made my brother and I two of the most well behaved kids I knew

I can't speak about your experiences, of course. In general, my understanding from experts is that being yelled at trains children to simply avoid being yelled at; they don't learn good behavior.

> And the view of children as mini adults who could be useful, if properly trained, has been the default parenting style for thousands of years.

I don't see that as a positive. The world was a horrible place for thousands of years; it was only in the last century that we started figuring things out, got children out of coal mines, learned germ theory, democracy and human rights became the norm, etc. etc. I like our modern ideas much better.
I think large companies and industries outside of Silicon Valley waste money internally on projects that never see the light of day. I think one of the big differences with SV is it's all on show for the world to see exactly how the money is being bet.
Per my earlier comment, one déformation professionnelle with being a libertarian "researcher" is that your funders expect you to tie the grand principles that make your soul sing to their parochial interests. "Keep your Pigovian taxes and Coasean bargaining away from my bottom line if you value your salary."
They don't need super-high interest rates to lock in their returns.

They need investment predictability, and can make up the difference with scale and global arbitrage.

From the other perspective, if your wages don’t rise, and your debts are there and your debts — particularly the student debts — are guaranteed by God himself that you can never default on them — you’re a debt peon.
"On average, the kids raised like this tend to do what autority tell them when autority is present. It is different when autority is not present and they are in presence of weaker kids."

It is still the same today, I can watch with some alpha parents who act like that.
The result is bow to the top, kick below.
Disgusting.
So Google only interviews candidates already living in the cities where the offices are? Google never relocates a candidate from somewhere else?

This is super false. Google doesn’t open an office in Denver because there is already a sufficient talent market in Denver to staff the whole place. There isn’t.

They open an office in Denver so that when a person passes the interviews and will need relocation they can be relocated more cheaply and paid a relatively lower salary in Denver.

They can only get away with this for certain cities that are granted high-status, like Austin, Seattle, Denver. Companies are trying to create similar status facades for e.g. Pittsburgh and Atlanta too.

It absolutely is wage arbitrage for the company— has nothing to do with the preexisting talent base in the given city, except insofar as that talent base confers some type of mitigating high-status effect.

For Denver it’s access to glamorized nature and skiing. For Pittsburgh it’s centralized around the presence of CMU. And even with these effects, these cities are not looked at as all that desirable for many, many candidates.
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It's easy the see the financial institutions as the bad guys or the users as the idiots. But really, after having used a few of those sites for adult, I feel safe saying that most of them had/have it coming.

Personal experience only a few weeks old, with a medium sized porn site:

* During the subscription, you get another service -costing extra of course- proposed. The checkbox for it is checked by default, in small font, on the side of the screen.

* The subscription; it renews every month by default. You better read carefully before you enter you payment data.

* You want to cancel? No way to do it from your account settings. You try the web site of the processor; nothing. Well, actually, maybe there is, but the only way to log in is by using you card credit number. No thanks. You finally find a link (deep in the FAQ of the first web site) that will brings you to a page on the processor's web site.

* Finally, you seem to be able to cancel; the page shows a "Membership cancellation" title, a pile of text, and a "I confirm" button. Well you better read the pile of text, because the "I confirm" button of the "Cancellation" page does not cancel your account.

And that's only for one site.

Beside that, there is also a whole bunch of stuff that would make any IT professional cringe really hard.

It's kinda hard to believe that all of this is perfectly legal, specially given that they operate internationally. No surprise that their payment partners get reluctant to work with them.

PS: not speaking about Patreon, never used that site.
How it can be an over-simplitic thing? Is there any room for a valid argument/justification of killing a child (except for "cultural thing" bullshit)?
The interesting corollary would be that in the run-up to a recession, all other assets and opportunities are so over-valued that capital has nowhere else to go.

And that increasing wages for labor is in fact capital's least-preferred option.

Which would be sad, but more or less jive with how the modern global, publicly traded economy works.
People will move on from what they want now and want to impress people. What better way than give meat to the village. That may lead to a marriage with the elder's daughter.
What if the OP personally believes that drugs are most beneficial to under-developed brains?

Are you a researcher, or are your opinions based on some research you could cite?

Now, there are several good reasons to exercise increased caution in the absence of evidence when dealing with under-developed brains of people with a lot more years ahead of them, but that's much different from a blanket strong opinion.