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That's the point of modern mandatory binding arbitration. It removes consumer protections and liability laws.* It removes all laws but the arbitration. To be suckered into one is to lose all protection under the law.*

* Per Hall Street Associates, L.L.C. v. Mattel, Inc. the courts have decided that manifest disregard for the law is not enough to vacate or modify arbitration. Thus the law no longer applies in the face of arbitration. Due to federal supremacy, all state laws are meaningless in the face of mandatory binding arbitration. All state constitutions are meaningless in the face of arbitration. You can and will be bound to infinite civil liability at the whims of an arbiter that does not have to decide based on law or even upon the dispute at hand.
You can also ask an ergonomic specialist, they do refer to piano posture at least.
Thanks. I struggle with wanting to go to bed at night and getting out of bed in the morning. Just placed a hold on the audiobook at my library.
Right, but like I said earlier (and I think the source of general confusion) is that the article doesn't seem to indicate that's what the attorney's asserted. Like, if they'd said

>"Yes your honor, this did not apply at the time of pledge, but we updated the TOS, and he specifically agreed to updated TOS as part of his playing the beta test and here is the timestamp when he did so through his account."

well, that'd still be plenty good reason to discuss how the modern practices of EULAs and TOS clearly circumvent the spirit of contract law, but it wouldn't be a new practice at all either. And it seems like it'd be a pretty straightforward, slam dunk thing to say too.

The article though doesn't make it sound like that was the argument or came up. Which might be because we're getting it 2nd or 3rd hand, so we shouldn't necessarily jump to conclusions. But if the judge arbitrarily decided it applied retroactively rather then "it applies because he agreed it would at a later date" that'd absolutely be pretty scary.
SPECTRE Variant 1 scanning tool
The lecture covers memory ordering (part of an ISA) and security (also likely part of ISA). Only the Q&A touches on "Post-ISA". It would be nice to see a discussion about Post-ISA in terms of motivation and landscape.
It may be more prudent for Walmart to enhance user experience on Vudu, their movie renting/purchasing service, and add streaming features on it down the line. Why launch a new service when you can use preexisting infrastructure?
I love Elite, just be prepared it's very much a make-your-own-adventure game.
I'm not advocating working with a video stream.
> Those are not trends, which are comparisons for the same country over multiple years

I think you may be choosing an arbitrarily narrow definition of the word "trend".

A typical definition[0] is "an inclination in a particular direction"

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trend
Not surprising at all, since reading China Miéville's "October".
It is incredible seeing Google being seriously attacked on here for have an open source path as well. I feel like this is some sort of alternative universe.

Exactly. The takeaway from this seems to be to not open up your system a little bit, because then you'll need to go all the way. Whereas e.g. Apple, which built a completely closed phone system from the start, doesn't get any trouble (even when it dominated the smartphone market). Really backwards ruling. And I say this as someone who happily switched to an iPhone to escape Google's data collection.
Laws and contracts cannot be retroactive. A new TOS can force you to cede rights from that point onward. All past purchase are covered by contracts in force at the time they were made.
Both punitive and compensatory/reparation measures habevtgeir place.
Einstein's initial reaction was the same before he changed his mind.

However, there are two points worth making. First, that something supports or can be used to support religious claims does not undermine that something (evidence, argument, whatever). It would be tendentious to do so. Second, creation as understood in Catholicism is not the same as creation in time. The notion that the universe was created in time was given serious consideration IIRC in the 12th century, but theologians like Aquinas held that it was not metaphysically provable whether the universe was in fact created in time or not. Creation as understood by theologians is creation from nothing, the continuous creation or sustaining of things in existence. I.e., we cannot explain the existence of things at any moment by appealing to anything about these things themselves or to their efficient causes, and so we need to appeal to a cause distinct from them and one which transcends the order of things. While creation in time may appeal to certain sensibilities, it is not itself demanded by Catholic theology.
Why would Google have to allow OEMs to install their OS? They do not control the hardware, what google does is not allowing OEMs accessing it's services like Google Play unless it installs a lot of other apps like Gmail, Maps, Google search...
>> If 1% of all paracetamols would drag the person through...

Right... But we still sell nuts to people allergic to nuts, and we still sell alcohol to people who end up beating their wives and then think it never happened.

I don’t believe your point is reasonable at all.
There's a bunch of very interesting, increasingly panicked telegram correspondence between those 3 specifically in the prelude to WWI as they all try to avoid going to war without having a whole lot of choice. I can't find the info about George V, but [0] has more about the telegrams between Nicholas II and Wilhelm II.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%E2%80%93Nicky_correspond...
What’s your definition of failing?

https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/IBM#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6IndlZWsi...
It’s actually just a lame, noncommittal way to say something. People should just use the period and stand by what they say, imo.
I think there's even an extra layer of nuance here as well. At the risk of sounding prescriptivist, "I don't know what this is" is a statement, not a question; appending a question mark to it changes its tone, and seems to me at least to give it an implicit, almost sarcastic question; "I don't know what this is. Do you expect me to?". It puts the responsibility for the statement, the responsibility for the confusion, on the presenter of the information, not the receiver. It's less innocent than pure confusion; has a little more sneer to it, or at the very least, a little more snark.
Lots of people like games like that. Tell your own story, use your imagination, stuff like that.
Thanks! You can close fman and delete the data directory [1]. Or, you can start the tutorial again via the Command Palette [2].

[1]: https://fman.io/docs/data-directory

[2]: https://fman.io/docs/tutorial
Which is followed by "The original terms of service, according to RSI’s own records, make no mention of arbitration before February 2015".

The author is making some confusing word choices.
My schedule's similar to yours - designer echoing a need for a minimum of 9 hours, preferably 10, especially for any serious creative work. (Personally I also wonder if there's a link there, about needing increased hours for flexible creative thinking?)

(Work wise, I currently balance 2 very demanding start-up-y jobs, and learned the hard way that even 8 hours doesn't cut the sheer amount of energy that's needed to handle fires that come from both of those places. Cutting out every inch of social or leisure life before sleep ironically gives me my best weeks ... and I know as an introvert that's probably easier for me than some, but good lord. Sleep's one of those things I don't compromise on anymore.)
You profit? That's what every other company that sells software does.
Spent way too long trying to figure out if that was a limerick.
At least the web version of Google Earth is like that.
It’s literally the definition of leveraging a monopoly to enter a market.
Sleep Cycle is amazing, and I also had a watch in the 00s that did the same thing. The concept of the alarm timing with your cycle is so revolutionary that I’m really surprised it has not caught on anywhere else. It should be a fundamental feature of all smart watches, but it’s nowhere to be seen. I don’t really care to just track sleep if such tracking does nothing but let you see some pretty charts.
Stable...until it went completely bonkers in WW1. The flipside of "stability" is often "unable to change course when something bad happens". The fundamental problem in WW1 is nobody on any side willing to admit this wasn't working for them. In France the and U.K., they could have electoral upheavals. In Russia, Austro-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, they monarchies were all eliminated either during WW1 or immediately after, in large part because they couldn't change course. Stability is only a virtue if you're not screwing up.
IBM had a patent for images displayed on pages, which they accused every internet company of violating around 1999. They called it the “Technology Licensing Program”
YC already invests $1M worth of human capital to put on Startup School. Whatever their original motivation is to do it, it's worth another $1M to do it better.
GPL or commercial only, sorry. I really do need the income.
They recommend I open up the device myself? Thereby voiding warranty? Isn't that getting more and more difficult?
I guess it feels a bit weird to say "the most successful operating system in a given region isn't allowed to bundle any first-party apps, but all of the other ones are". They seem like different scales of the same thing, and maybe Android's case is only being seen as "abuse" because it's at a larger scale due to more marketshare.
Does the idea of "training adults to not take responsibility" have merit? It sounds like naive pop psychology.

We could remove all guard-rails (literal and figurative) from society. I guess you could say I'd be more "responsible" for staying alive under this scenario. But why is that good? It's just more inefficient and unpleasant for everyone to have to carefully check their every move in case something's trying to scam or possess them. The more you're tested, the more likely you'll fail. When instead we can just generally agree, via democratic means, to fix those systemic problems across-the-board. Then we can get on to solving better problems.

My own pop psych: you don't "conquer" temptation, so much as it wears at you. And it wears at some members of your community more than others. You solve it by removing the temptation (or yourself from it), not by facing it over and over.

As adults we should take responsibility for our community by fixing what ails us. I will gladly accept limitations on my own entertainment if it helps my neighbour through a difficult struggle.
Sleep is one of those things that you don't really notice when it gets better.

You feel good, you feel more energetic, you feel all the benefits that are well known, but you don't notice.

You only notice it when you go back to shitty sleep and realize how much better off you are when you are sleeping the appropriate number of hours.

I've struggled with sleep for years. I won't go into my long journey but it suffices to say that after all the supplements, different cpap machines, "sleep hack", etc., the only thing that actually worked was discipline. Go to bed early, wake up early, same time, everyday.
I am not sure how 'huge' that would be. But, be careful when trying to get more accurate estimates as the tendency is to look for things that move Numbers into the directions you think they should go not just to increase the accuracy of each estimate.
Besides, a small watergun graphic is just an often futuristic looking gun with neon colors. Hardly something that suddenly is unambiguously not a killing device.
You may well know this, but there is a difference between (mere) expansion and acceleration of the rate of expansion. Lemaître discovered the former, confirmed by Hubble IIRC.
That precedent was already established with Credit companies.
Monopoly is not a state of being it's something you have over a specific market segment. What does Google have a monopoly on?
Too late to disprove the several Anastasia pretenders, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikola...
Also, Google paid to have their browser installed through the installers of other companies software, by default.

For instance, by default, the installer for AVG's free antivirus program would install Google Chrome and make it the default browser.
Yes, that's a very good point. The keys I'm using are Cherry MX Clears which have an actuation force of 55cN. From my own experience, it would require a lot more force to depress a piano key. So yeah, maybe wrist flexion is pretty much required when playing piano to avoid muscular fatigue in the fingers.
>> benchmarks often have long-running tasks

Yes, but depending on who you're talking to, "long-running" could mean a few minutes or several hours.

Throttling doesn't usually have a major impact on tasks that take a few minutes. But on heavy, long running loads, the effect of throttling starts to add up quickly, which is why the i9 MBP couldn't outperform the 2017 i7 MBP until it was stuffed in a freezer.

While the use of Premiere might raise eyebrows, I don't think it matters in Lee's testing, because he ran the same test on both the 2018 i9 MBP and a 2017 i7 MBP. Either way, it was a heavy, taxing, long running task.

I don't think anyone will dispute that the i9 has significant performance gains for people whose CPU utilization spikes are relatively short -- and that might be the majority of people who will opt to buy an i9 equipped MBP.

For content creators and other users who need to tax the processor for long periods of time, however, those users might be better off with the i7 version of the MBP.
As a multibillionaire my first concern is absolutely ensuring the loyalty of my security forces. I wonder how the Chinese address this.
Maybe a third party will arise which would bundle the services at some discount -kind of like we have with museum passes and other bundling services.
I specifically mentioned but did not do that adjustment because I don't have good data.
Except that I pay for an highway that should support 100 mb/s and they pay for an highway that should support 100 mb/s, yet it only support 10 mb/s.

The Netflix route is using too much bandwidth? Then upgrade it, that's what your customer pay you for. For sure there will be route that will be unequal, some too big, some too small, but that's part of ISP job to make sure its impact is minimal.
This is very exciting. I'd love to see some of this make its way into amature equipment.

Technology has helped us go past what would have been though of as possible with similar optics equipment 50 years ago. For the most part, optical mirrors and lenses are the same but what we can now do with them has changed quite a bit.

For example, here is a video of Mars through a small telescope: http://i.imgur.com/8juHPdn.gifv

If we take the best parts of each video frame in that video and combine them in a smart way, a process called lucky imaging, we can reduce the impact of the atmosphere: http://i.imgur.com/CzLZTlv.png
I like the amount of trouble EU takes just to protect consumers. This should actually be applauded. I don't think many countries do this outside Europe.
This is a really cool process, but the author stops just short of completing the analysis.

> It's impossible to determine any correlation at all based on this graph. I know my happiness is influenced by a lot of factors, but so far I cannot tell if sleep is one of them.

Yeah, this is true. You can't just look at a graph and say that the job is done. This is the entire point for the statistics field. You need to do an actual statistical test for correlation -- not just plot a graph. Obvious trends are definitely visible in graphs, but more subtle correlations are often obscured and not visible.

I'd be much more interested to see what statistical analysis on the data looks like, rather than just a graph at the end. With a huge focus on methods, I'm flabbergasted that some form of regression wasn't tried at all. It's probably worth chopping out obvious problem areas, like relationship stress, though. (You could also just add categorical traits to the model, though, and let relationship stress act as a factor on happiness directly.)

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A tangent: it's pretty well known that sleep deprivation can actually improve symptoms in people who are depressed -- especially at extremes. I don't know if this has anything to do with a large scale analysis like this, though.
> This is a dangerous ruling that pushes the world further into the potential for trade wars by proxy.

I think that this is already a counter-attack of "dieselgate".
Then I'm glad I have the '18 model, despite the USB-C tyranny. I don't know if they fixed stuff, but it's a pleasant experience so far. CPU is i5-8250I with Windows 10 if feels snappy.

https://imgur.com/a/afvqtbQ

The fan is running at around 10%, barely noticeable.
For comparison, two of the most delayed games for consoles are The Last Guardian and Kingdom Hearts 3, and both either released or on track to release in 6 years. FFXV took ten years, and was more or less completely redesigned from its initial concept. Meanwhile Star Citizen is 7 years in development and still is in alpha.
I like yaml to edit preexisting files, but they should come with a generator.
Yeah, experts tend to explore related fields (I guess that's why they are experts), but I do wonder when actual, relevant one-off searching will actually work.
I do not have a disallow set for this page but based off of this page it seems perhaps I might have to set one:

https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/best-practice/noindex-disallo...

Specifically the part:

>Noindex (robots.txt) + Disallow: This prevents pages appearing in the index, and also prevents the pages being crawled. However, remember that no PageRank can pass through this page.
* The content is just really good. Beyond that, I think the interactions with the other startups in our group were really valuable and some of them I still talk to today. The office hours were good, and hopefully some of the practical challenges around scheduling last year will be solved.

* We got accepted into YC after being in Startup School.

* Yes, I believe that the lessons in the course have been important for us.
Always better to research the prevalent salaries beforehand. Use Glassdoor, or some salary guides and arrive on a window - not an absolute figure to allow employer to asses his budget too.
taskwarrior. command line todo list, has a sync server for sharing tasks across devices. I like it because i can just type `task` in the shell and see what i need and keep working, then if i finish something it's `task x done` it does burndown charts and stuff too, all from the shell. nice api for plugging into and of course because it's in the shell it's already very extensible.
Thanks for the heads up as I was about to click the link.
FireOS doesn't use Play Services and seems not to have an alternative
> He was a horrible, disgusting meat-eater!

Possibly, if that's the consensus of current mores, but I didn't say that; I said that a racist and an anti-Semite is a horrible leader.

> He deserved to die!

No, I definitely didn't say that. In fact, lostlogin explicitly disclaimed this position (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556982):

> This doesn’t justify what happened to him, but certainly helps explain it.

(emphasis mine). There are plenty of horrible people out there, but, most (and possibly all) of the time, wishing death on them is equally horrible.
There just aren't enough (better) alternatives in the market.
Through SNI you get to see the domain name [0] (until encrypted SNI is working[1]), but not the rest of the url.

[0] - https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86723/why-do-ht...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17538390
60 Minutes Presents: Going to Extremes [video](2012)
Perl -> Python user here: one of Ruby's strengths is metaprogramming features, which is why it's a natural fit for DSL-building problem domains like config management. I would say Chef and Puppet probably made the right choice.

I went the Python route instead. For me, my choice at the time was a purely pragmatic one based on ecosystem. Python simply had the stronger one at the time for most of the problem domains I was working in, and this continues to be true today.

Ruby is syntactically more elegant though -- it has a Japanese Zen-like quality. I really wanted to like it, but I knew it would mean living in a world where I had to reimplement, possibly badly, the stuff I needed to do the rest of my job.
I'm a native French speaker, fluently thinking in English.

There's a vast pool of vocabulary that is common to both languages, from which I draw words indiscriminately (Latin roots and the same formula to derive verbs/nouns/adjectives, with minor variations for each langage (e.g. add "-ate" for verbs in Englsih and "-er" in French)). Some of these are so-called "false friends", with different meanings in both languages.

I have a spidey sense that works most of the time in the English => French direction (e.g. "consistent"), less so in the other.
Due to SNI, the domain name is sent in cleartext but nothing else. So yes they could key off of "fast.com" but other sites where "/speedtest" is included would be encrypted.
“Differentiation is mechanics; integration is art.”
It's nice that the offer the material to people who don't have an idea for a product in the near future.
I don't see any problem with doing a few partnerships like these. Even with some major companies. Firefox could easily do the same.

It's only a problem when you squeeze out competition by doing exclusive contracts with all major distributors in a particular distribution channel.
Host private lessons, meet interesting people and make money
>People aren't going to pay for 3-5 disparate video services, especially where 80% of the same content is available on all of them.

Sure about that? HBO, Showtime, Starz, sports packages, etc. Plenty of evidence that they _will_ do exactly that. I hope it doesn't go that way, but there's a reason we ended up with cable in its current form.
Finally its official that Google does evil - good to see this even it came many years too late, same as it was with Microsoft and IE. But better late, then never. Now if only the US would do something similae.
Jenkins has a declarative pipeline generator, it should be relatively straightforward for it to output YAML rather than the standard groovy based declarative pipeline DSL.
The law should be the same for all companies and should not depend on which companies are monopolies.
> Because the choice for many is not mostly loyal physician vs. HMO or corporate employee doc. It’s HMO doc vs. no doctor visit.

Huh? Where are you bringing HMOs into this? Nobody's talking about HMOs.
>There is no OEM here being bullied.

Right, only the end users are harmed, as it should be.
I absolutely do not understand why they didn't pick a new name and separate the brands entirely.

It's like if the maker of Lucky Charms started selling Lucky Charms Kale, which was actually just plain kale. Why reuse the name from an entirely different product?
It's a linguistic device that adds richness to the language?
"Essential" and "useful" are not the same thing. A web browser isn't an essential part of a desktop OS the same way a network card isn't an essential part of a computer. Even though network cards come with most computers due to frequently being useful, they're not essential to the computer being a computer... computers can very much come without them, which people occasionally also find useful. Also, times have changed, and the web has become a far bigger part of people's life than it used to be.