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If you study humor you find that nothing is funny and every joke is actually mean. I’ll look for these laughter studies but iirc the conclusions are that people laugh as a form of group identification. Laughter serves as a social signal in the same way affirmative or roger does over a radio. As in, I have received the information you have transmitted and correctly understand the intended message. As social groups become more specialized or valuable, it becomes more important to the groups survival to weed out those who are not of the proper pre-requisites. Academia is a perfect example of this, and what I find most fascinating is the etymology of the word barbarian. The word coming from an onomatopoeia of what athians thought foreignors sounded like when attempting to speak greek. I can just imagine eletist Greeks making fun of people behind their back as a form of social solidarity.
Might be the first UNIX-focused bundle where I don't pay for the top tier. I'm not even sure I'll go for the $15 tier--everything I want is $8 or below.

Can anyone make a compelling case for any of the books in the $15 tier?
>Prime Day? More like Same-As-the-Rest-of-the-Time Day. It has always been a highly-hyped disappointment of a store-wide sale, and this is not news to anyone except people who have never before shopped on Amazon's web store.

The headline is misleading insofar as the real story is that the site is completely broken right now, and people (me) are unable to order anything. Kinda dumb for an infrastructure company.
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Keep in mind Paragon Real Estate Group is motivated by turning over inventory and encouraging people to buy.

> "longer term trends have always been positive"

This suggests that you should always buy if you're planning to stay in the Bay Area for the long term. The problem is that if you need to move within the Bay Area, then you could be setting yourself up for a very long commute, when one could have rented and invested the difference in the bull market over the past 10 years. And if you do ever leave the region (like many do, despite what the article suggests that lumps overseas in-migration with domestic out-migration), then you're looking at a 8-10% in fees to buy and then sell. Many parts of the region still haven't recovered from the bubble of 2007, and a more apt study would be to examine historical prices in urban areas like Boston or New York and the opportunity costs. A study of 100 years of commercial real estate in NYC show how property values were 30% lower in 1999 than they were in 1899, adjusting for inflation, and within, any decade values often rise and fall by 20–50% in real terms. https://economics.mit.edu/files/5887
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"We have never" does not mean "we will never" does it? The legal terms doesn't seem to preclude it from happening. Most companies don't have agreements with data orgs until they have the juicy data. It's easy to say "we probably won't sell it" until the board sees the value of the accrued data in a couple of years. instapaper could make it more explicit that it's not going to happen in the terms rather than social media posts by an employee.
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I think it's telling that tech people are very skeptical of the "$100k in facebook ads turned the election" narrative.
Read the actual report from the DNI. Election counts weren't altered, the ads are nothing-burger. The hacks on mail systems were primarily done with spear-phishing, the same things businesses are caught with every day.
My conclusion - phishing is the real story here of any consequence, if we want to "do something" it should be centered around better defense against this. That said, it's very interesting that Podesta's emails DID reveal collusion between the campaign and revolving-door political/media employees (CNN leaking debate questions to Hillary, etc). That's also a very significant story, and the more the narrative about Russia sucks all the oxygen out of the room, the less we're talking or even thinking about that kind of corrupt shit.
Does the source of the leaks matter? Does it matter that it was Wikileaks, AccessHollywood, Guccifer? Either something is true or it isn’t.
FWIW 100% of the Amazon retail website is run on EC2 (and iirc it's 100% on spot instances too). (There are of course lots of internal services that still use non-ec2 capacity but fewer and fewer every day.)
Rather than try and understand why Midwestern states such as Ohio flipped heavily Republican it seems like the plan is to call them idiots and bigots. It seems like some introspection and message focus is needed. The name calling path isn't working
Actually, it is 87k$, but yeah. https://leandesign.com/pdf/Tesla-3-Analysis-Sales-Informatio...
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I think the hard part is to walk the line between stagnation & over-expansion. This is a dilemma we all face in organizations large and small as well as individually.

Building systems and processes (a.k.a Habits) that allow us to assume and integrate some new set of "stuff" without having to think about them (so we can move on to the next new "stuff") are what sets these companies apart; Amazon has been brilliant at this; however, from my perspective, looking at all the high-rise office buildings going up, it seems like maybe Icarus has flown too high...

But again, I could be building a narrative to fit my preconceived ideas... I'm definitely no authority here. Maybe this is just another blip... I think more troubling to me is the overall degradation in quality of the things I have formerly taken for granted in Amazon -- the quality of the products and ratings.
It's pretty tough when you've got Russia and China out there competing with you and you're running from behind.

The Tempest looked interesting, until I saw the hoping to fly by 2035 part, which really means 2040 or later.

It's really a technology make-work project to keep their skills up and retain defense capability, which isn't a terrible idea so long as the cost is tightly contained.
Most companies can't afford to implement all the security and compliance measures that AWS, Google, or Azure does.

The asymmetry in trust is partly because those cloud providers are huge, and partly because those things are part of their core competency.
Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
Why not? Be happy it wasn't bid out to Meals on Wheels.
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I’ve seen plenty of concern over citizens United and the unfair influence of money in politics, so you might want to broaden your sources. Your posts remind me of basically what Trump is saying, that evil things that other countries do are fine because we are hypocrites, or other countries attacking us is okay because it’s our fault we’re vulnerable.
I feel the title could have been more informative.
Even though teachers are woefully underpaid here like most other state workers other than those who write laws or live in the governor's mansion there hasn't been a teachers strike in Florida for some time. See, for ex., http://news.wfsu.org/post/its-been-50-years-florida-teachers...
It would be far from the first time that has happened in history.
What incentivizes people to report every possible detail of their lives on Twitter and Facebook? You know how I confirm if Instagram is indeed down? You go on Twitter, and everyone breaks out the "I go on Twitter to check if Instagram is down" meme. DSL Reports, and various others have come before this idea. People love yapping about things. ESPECIALLY when it's something negative to say.

The real question is if anyone really cares enough to support a niche site like this. The biggest problem is that food poisoning isn't something that happens daily for anyone.
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How many has each country built in the last 10 years? China's industry has far far more experience building in the modern era.
If you already waited overnight, then 2 hours isn't going to cause you to go home and come back. You're going to continue to wait in the line until the store opens back up.
Ordos is actually still pretty ghosty. 153K people seems great until you realize it was built for several times that many. http://www.businessinsider.com/ordos-china-ghost-town-2017-5

In the US, everyone associated with the investment would have lost their shirts years ago. In Communist China, debt pays you!

The really interesting thing is that the units are mostly owned. Why? Because you can't move very much money out of China due to the capital controls, tremendous flows of money go into property -- lots of people buy real estate never intending to live in it, or sometimes even to rent it... there are actually property sales ads that suggest no one should live there as the property is not designed for human habitation. :)
In college I automatically filtered out companies that provided dinner for this reason. If you want a free meal you have to stay late. But then if you leave immediately after it looks like you were just staying for the free food so you may as well stay until 8 to look like a team player. It's a pattern I didn't want to start
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so Bezos could buy a house for roughly 1 in every 330 adults in the U.S.

Looks like you were.

J. Bezos does not have 150 billions baguette and cannot buy 150 billions baguette with what you think his wealth is
Once we receive and moderate your report. It will go to public health. There are many paths it can take from there. We don't require lab tests, that is just a potential scenario, most common where there is either an important (deadly) pathogen potentially involved, or if it appears to be potentially a larger outbreak, and it is a pathogen that can't be detected in the facility. It's not necessarily ever a requirement. What we offer to consumers is that if you speak up there is potential that your report can make a difference.
> Doesn't that just make you less offensive to others?

No. Where I work we talk a lot of smack to each other. This doesn't go on behind peoples' backs - we prefer that the victim be there to hear it. But about 20% of the time, the "victim" is also the speaker - it's self-directed smack.

When we were interviewing this guy to join our team, I mentioned this behavior, and asked if he was going to be able to put up with that environment. The thought for a moment, and then said "It sounds like you trust each other." He was exactly right. It's because we trust each other that we can tease each other - knowing that the sender wasn't speaking in malice, and knowing that the receiver won't take it the wrong way.
> The goal of the quiz is not to dump your less healthy friends, but to identify the people in your life who score the highest and to spend more time with them.

I really don't like the idea of trying to rank my friends like this. Not everything in the world needs to be quantified.
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>I just saw a Nissan article on here a few days ago. It was about how they cheated their emissions tests.

Exactly. Some stupid story that wasn't true. I rest my case.
This seems like a bit of an overreaction. Amazon has had big outages before (particularly at AWS), and they invariably solve the problem and move on. As someone else observed, events like this are mainly notable because of how infrequently they happen.
This works at the more macro level too. Someone was talking about moving to SF from the Midwest and being amazed by all the fit, beautiful young professionals walking around. Yes, it’s true that driven, disciplined people are more likely to be somewhere like SF or NYC, but the subconscious adherence to your new home’s social norms is a huge factor.

We want to fit in. In a library, that means heads down. In a fit city, that means being fit. In Texas (my home), that often means lots of beer drinking and dining out, which leads to not fit.

The power of positive people is the same. If you roll in a cynical circle, your cynicism will be applauded, and your optimism ridiculed, and you’ll find yourself altogether more cynical.

Around 22 years old, I realized that location / social circle are two of my greatest levers for influencing my behavior, and I’ve been extremely careful about where I’m willing to position myself ever since.
They are pretty good about it, and the "Correction of Error" for this one will be pretty epic.

Generally, the rule at Amazon is that any particular f*-up is forgivable... once. (Especially if you can show that you had preventative measures, documented procedures and redundancy in place.)

That said, there will be finger pointing and blame because you're dealing with human beings.
This is definitely useful to keep in mind, but I think one point that might not be represented adequately is the utility of a standard. I understand that there are difficulties for people speaking in a nonnative accent, but there is also actual value in being close to standard and having less accents considered standard. When many people are specializing in many things, having a standard way of speaking allows us to more quickly understand one another and skip the basics. The judgement that I personally make when I hear a non-standard accent is not that they are lower in status; it's simply that it will take more work on my end to understand them, and thus I'm less inclined to deal with them in particular because of the language barrier and my being lazy.
Probably every day at Alibaba is a prime day in terms of transactions...
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Agreed. Where are the Bezos donated schools, parks, hospitals, fire departments in Seattle? He has done nothing for Seattle except replace its citizens, driving them out into surrounding towns/cities/counties, and drove so many into homelessness that Seattle now has one of the largest homeless populations in the USA. It makes me absolutely furious when he says there's nothing he can do except build rockets.

Mary's Place is really his only contribution to Seattle. It houses a whole 65 families.
Ok, so no organizational benefits?
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Its fancy concept art to sell upgrades to Typhoon:

> The important thing about the new concept is that it will illustrate a direction of travel and many of those technologies that will be embodied in that will first see their service through the Typhoon
>You can get a low-mileage used Leaf under $10k today.

Doesn't meet my requirements, unfortunately.

I need 2nd gen.
It's interesting that you can have hired the best talents in the world, but still have major outages. I wonder if there a way to ensure more people = more stability. Sounds a bit stupid, but maybe if each datacenter has its own software team working on the same issue, it will be very redundant work, but maybe it will be more organic in its failure?
Awesome. I think you even answered the question I asked above. Thank you. Convinced and going to go with TS.
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smile.amazon.com was working fine during the outage, if that helps narrow it down...
I am saying the opposite. I suspect we are on the same side even if we have an opposite opinion.

I care more about California right now than I care about federal politics - which is currently toxic. California is currently strong enough to be considered a country. Our economy is double the size of Russia.

Look at what a strong California has done at the national level even with only 2 senators. We caused the car companies to have clean emission laws when the 2 Bush administrations opposed this. We are currently protecting immigrants when the US is not. We are currently supporting ecological programs when the US is not. We currently support women's rights when the US is on the road to dismantle women's rights.

I am not willing to give that up.
My family back in Madrid would have a hard time understanding the Spanish of my English-speaking students in my first-semester classroom.

There's good reason for this. In English, if you pronounce a vowel wrong or leave it out, you have an accent. If you pronounce a consonant wrong or leave it out, you're unintelligible. Spanish is closer to the reverse, where the vowels are essential and the consonants are supplemental. If you're native to one language you'll need a lot of pronunciation drills to get good at the other.
Given how small SF is, and given how many multi-millionaires are minted with every big and even not-so-big tech company exit -- not to mention a steady population of bankers, traders, lawyers, doctors, etc. -- it seems like there is absolutely no end in sight to what is happening in the housing market there. There are probably more people flush with 7+ figures of cash to buy there than there will ever be available inventory in the foreseeable future. I would be extremely curious to see the demographics of all home buyers over the last few years, and/or what percentage of sales in the city are all-cash offers or at least could be done as such if the buyers desired.
This post introduced me to the field of connectomics. I must admit I am extremely fascinated by this field and the technology that characterizes it. Can anyone suggest me a few introductory resources, such as books and introductory papers, that they consider reliable?
Because with billions you can have such a greater impact... I really don't follow this argument
I'm an SE for an ecommerce platform aimed at the mid-market (Workarea), and there are a lot of ERP/PDM options out there for SMB, and they all take work to implement and maintain. In the interest of full disclosure, my only affiliation on that side of things is with a company called OrderBot; if you hit me up at my handle @gmail.com I might have some suggestions for you depending on what you're looking for - mostly based on what I've seen out there in terms of what we've been connecting Workarea to.
To that point, perhaps Bezos has decided to live by Andrew Carnegie's dictum?

"-To spend the first third of one's life getting all the education one can.

-To spend the next third making all the money one can.

-To spend the last third giving it all away for worthwhile causes."
Wow, that was so much more dramatic than I realized. These public fights (esp where normal people's jobs are at stake) are almost certainly a bad thing, but they're just fascinating to watch in real time.
Absolute opposite - minimal parking lots and severe under-capacity for street parking. Off-street parking for 1 maybe 2 cars can reach prices of over £600,000 (approx $1 million) [1] in central areas.

1 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4048546/Garages-gold...
Personally I found the witches arc the slowest to get in to. It's too long ago to remember why I found that, but they sat unfinished. I've read them all several times now, and enjoy them, but only after I'd thoroughly got into the rest of Discworld.

The City Watch sub-series is my favourite with the Death arc a close second. laurentl already made recommendation on City Watch, if you want to try the Death arc Mort is the first.
>Second but Tesla seems to have the best battery by far.

So you base this on, what, Elon's tweets?

Big tradeoff in batteries...expense, reliability, durability. Where are they?
I believe it is already being done at full scale. :-)

Most people are already eating the junk full time. Now we just need to get a big swath of them off of it and measure the changes.
It's a good holiday if you can no longer remember what day it is.
No, "could" doesn't mean "should". Saying someone "could" do something is speaking in the hypothetical which is most certainly not suggesting they do that something.
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Journalism/editing tip: Never start a headline with a question. And definitely never start a headline with a question that can be answered: "No" by a reasonable guestimation.
Later the day I was wondering about that.

Always learning something new then.
I'd love to hear a joke that doesn't (even implicitly) victimize anyone. I suspect that even if you found one, someone else could find an interpretation that victimizes someone.
I'm 40 years old and still have a very strong Afrikaans accent. I've made peace with it and actually embrace my accent. Although my English grammar is good and my vocabulary above average I definitely perceive different reactions when I have a discussion with an English South African vs written communication. It frustrates me, and since I realised it I also picked up on how many white people mock black South Africans' English accents. The prejudice will hopefully stop one day.
What copywriting is necessary? I haven't done anything on my stuff.
"Discovery weekly" and "new releases" are not sorted as far as I know, but related artists may be. A key factor at play here may be that there is no "best", the variety of the recommendations feels like a positive for music whereas it could be a negative for a larger commitment like novel or for a consumer product. Even Spotify's objectively terrible recommendations (such as once recommending an album called "Music of Lorestan 1" for the synthwave artist "Saffari") turned out to be nice discoveries
I've noticed over time that "doing nothing" is scary to most people on a subconcious level. It breaks the illusion that we have total control over our world.
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Yes. There are (or used to be) to-go containers. Lots of people stayed late enough to just grab food, when I was there. You already stayed that late, it's fine. You can go home without judgement.
Why is that scary? Good for him, he has really changed the world, specifically the way retail has evolved in recent years.
You don't have to go that far. Consider this insight from Chris Rock, who said: Joke about what people do, not what they are.

That came up in this discussion where he, Jerry Seinfeld, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK talk about comedy and their techniques, etc. It's really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k
I bet Buffett would underwrite it w/ AMZN stock as collateral.
Check again, mine was missing but it's back now. It's doubtful they'll actually lose data, issues are probably just due to services that are offline.