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It's about time a federal judge applies common sense to a forfeiture case. It really is amazing how little logic and common sense our judicial system has. How are we the people supposed to trust an illogical system that steals from people, murders innocent people, and that a third grader can see is unconstitutional? How can one even explain such madness to children who wonder if the cops killed the black guy just to take his car and house? Of course they did.
Rationally you must know that driving is more dangerous than flying. You're still afraid of flying though. My guess would be because you are not in control of the outcome. With driving, you at least have some control.

You need to accept your own mortality and that tragedy is an inevitable part of being human. Even your own family can experience it, and that tragedy could occur on a plane.

With that all said, the odds are very bad that you'll crash, but you only have two ways out of this: you convince yourself that it will never happen, or you accept that it could.
Do not know where you are staying but I have not seen a hotel without a bar in a very long time. That is if the hotel is chain hotel (not motel).

To the original point, if I am staying in the hotel and I go to the bar I would just sign to the room and not pay cash.
Why would anyone pay (..with software tokens) for your system when they can use the existing internet, Bittorrent, Freenet, TOR, and so on for free?

If you want an example of an ancap society visit Somalia and read the book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
This IEEE spec is about Exceptions like exception for division by zero. As far as I can tell dividing by zero in JavaScript does not cause an exception, does it?
I do that for spam newsletters which added me without my consent. Most of them you can edit your email, and I edit it to contact@[their domain] or postmaster@[their domain]
Wedding cakes are such an unnecessary expense - I’m not going to say a rip-off because the impressive looking ones clearly take a ton of time to make - but if you don’t care about them looking like “amazing one of a kind” cakes a regular bakery can make super tasty non-sheet cakes for a reasonable amount.

We used the sadly defunct sweet inspiration in SF (sf rent prices happened afaik) and it was I think 35-40/each for three cakes which was fine.

Venue was still the biggest expense - I think all up we were somewhere in the 5-10k range which was apparently “cheap” o_O
Where are you getting the idea that rational choice theory necessarily assumes perfect information?

That is the simplest model of rationality, but there are others. Wikipedia[1] lists three others in addition to perfect information:

> Perfect information: The simple rational choice model above assumes that the individual has full or perfect information about the alternatives, i.e., the ranking between two alternatives involves no uncertainty.

> Choice under uncertainty: In a richer model that involves uncertainty about the how choices (actions) lead to eventual outcomes, the individual effectively chooses between lotteries, where each lottery induces a different probability distribution over outcomes. The additional assumption of independence of irrelevant alternatives then leads to expected utility theory.

> Inter-temporal choice: when decisions affect choices (such as consumption) at different points in time, the standard method for evaluating alternatives across time involves discounting future payoffs.

> Limited cognitive ability: identifying and weighing each alternative against every other may take time, effort, and mental capacity. Recognising the cost that these impose or cognitive limitations of individuals gives rise to theories of bounded rationality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory
In high school I worked banquets for a major hotel chain - mainly setting up for weddings receptions and conferences. I only saw a handful of real tiered cakes in the hundred or so I worked.

What was more normal to see was a real and very well made top tier. This was for the cake cutting pictures and for the bride and groom. The remaining 5-6 tiers were identically decorated styrofoam.

After the cake ceremony, we wheeled the rest into the back, tossed it in a closet for the caterer to pick up, and served sheet cake.
Most people that care get a substantial portion of those fees back (either as cash or rewards). So in reality, those fees are a tax on the poor, the un-creditworthy, and the financially illiterate.
Why not just include a cheap resistance heating element mounted somewhere safe so worst case your solar system has some load to take the power?
You make a good point: the people who have ruined the Web are doing it because it makes them a profit. That's the whole point of ethics & morality, though: refraining from what benefits us immediately because it's wrong. And just as it's wrong to kill the old lady next door to steal her house, it's wrong to turn a product-listing site into a JavaScript-laden monstrosity so terrible my phone becomes painfully hot to the touch.
Making cheaper wedding cakes is definitely a good idea. I prefer flavour over kitsch. But I think guests would probably notice if the cake doesn't actually get cut, but a cupcake gets substituted instead.

Instead, I think that only baking a top layer and cutting that would satisfy the photographers. Then wheel the fake cake away to the kitchen, and bring out slices of sheet cake to satisfy everyone's stomachs.
> So it's a wrapper that implements a particular interface? Then why, oh why, do we have so many people who spout...

Its because its actually a mathematical concept. And that's the mathematical definition.

So Haskell decided to use the same name. Now some people feel, should I explain the math concept, or its concrete representation in Haskell.

Also, its a bit more involved as an interface. In that its not enough to implement the common methods for the interface. You also have to prove that your implementation for each exhibit certain properties, specifically there needs to be an identity value which act as a neutral element, and they must be associative.

Those laws are where things get more mathematical. Because its rare in comp-sci to talk about laws and properties of functions.
To be clear that’s due to laws in Denmark that require its acceptance and granting it a particular monopoly status?

I’d be curious what the issue rate between the Dankort & the Kroger Plus Card. It’s conceivable that Kroger has the market heft to do with selling power what Denmark did with law.

As context Kroger employees about the same number of people as 1/10th of Denmark though I have no idea how that translates to ability to change card usage.
The IRS doesn't accept credit card payments. That's why it's farmed out to third-party companies like the one I linked to.
Thanks for share this. It is news to me as that used to be prohibited by the CC.

"2010 law: up to $10 minimum OK. The law says that merchants can set a credit card minimum purchase of up to $10, as long as they treat all cards the same. It also allows the Federal Reserve to review and increase the minimum payment amount."
I assume they meant merchant fees.
I have such an inverter(SolarEdge HD Wave)[1], but you have to specify a specific power level to throttle to -- and it requires some additional supporting hardware to measure what it is feeding the grid with, and still requires at least a sync signal from the grid.

I have not found an off-grid mode in its settings yet.

[1] https://www.solaredge.com/us/products/pv-inverter/single-pha...
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The same has been said about Pi (3.14). If you can compute, store and search enough the digits of Pi, you can reference anything by just providing the 'start' and 'finish' locations. Unfortunately, with enough digits of Pi, the 'start' and 'finish' numbers can get quite long themselves.
There's a whole academic sub-discipline in Mechanical Engineering devoted to optimizing geometries like this. Shape Optimization tries to find shapes with particular properties, e.g. minimizing material use while maximizing shear strength. You'll find hundreds of papers going back decades if you want to dig into it:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=sha...
I wish that were true, but is it really? I think of Idiocracy, and how prophetic it was. I fear that most users do want 'Ow, My Balls' and brightly-coloured, moving objects to distract them from the ennui of life.
I am very Sorry for the late reply Brian. Just now corrected it. If you don't mind, is there any way i can reach you ? Thanks
I can see a lot of people doing their work on their phones and tablets, without a real computer. Lots of email, presentations, videos, conferences, apps, maybe some report viewing, etc. This fits well for people in management, sales, service, and even some technical professionals that aren’t primarily computer focused (doctors, dentists, etc)

Marketing not so much (lots of spreadsheets), deep development or system admin also (though most of my sysadmin work can be done on an iPad with a terminal, I like the multi monitor displays on a real computer).
don't worry, the suck level will integer overflow eventually and it will wrap around to a super positive release
Either are a good fit for you, but since you have simpler queries than CRDB will be easier to run.

Performance is fine, why do you say it's scary? OLAP will just be slow, but it's also distributed and unoptimized. Highly concurrent OLTP can't really get slow unless you're trying to stretch the cluster over multiple geo regions.
The idea that bond investors only care about "short-term solvency" and therefore ignore unfunded pension obligations doesn't make any sense at all. I don't even... Also this idea that California, the 5th largest economy in the world, is ranked "11th nationally" in terms of debt ratings doesn't make any sense. Nobody actually compares an economy like California (GDP 2.5T) with Arizona (GDP 2.5B). There's so much wrong here -- from the pure ideological nonsense that California is "on the verge of bankruptcy" to the idea that bond investors only think 6-10 years into the future -- that it's really not worth continuing this conversation. (It's also quite clear that the legion of downvoters, hard pressed to actually defend their ideological nonsense, can always just suppress the facts. So much for free speech uber alles.)
Sorry, my response was just addressing credit card payments, I hadn't really thought about the crypto aspects of this before.

Totally agree that on a practical basis it would be crazy to try and justify the utility of crypto to the average person based on "lower fees" since they are exorbitant for all but very large transactions.

My point with CC fees was, merchants "pay" but the open question is: are prices in a given market perhaps a bit (even just 1 or 2%) higher than they would be if card transactions were free? If so, exactly how much? Does this differ across different markets / product categories and how much? This is the kind of thing one would need to figure out to know who is "really" eating the fees.

My intuition is that whether the charges can be passed through to the consumer via higher prices is going to depend on the market (say supermarkets vs luxury goods) but I'm not aware of any research on this.
Maybe they could send multiple letters and I could have some kind of client that shows me the headlines and allows me to open the articles I'm interested in.
Typically, when we test experimental products to gauge their safety and efficacy, we engage in informed consent with the participating parties.

If everyone involved knew the risks, accepted them and moved forward, I'd agree with your premise.

However, if I am walking down the street and I'm run over by a rogue autonomous vehicle, I didn't give consent.

I don't think anyone would be as blasé as they are with autonomous vehicle deaths in a different situation.

For example, if a potential cure for heart disease was tested by dumping it in the public water supply causing people to die, would we have posters here saying that testing such drugs will result in deaths and shrug them off?
+1 to SolarEdge. I have an HD Wave and it seems to be a really nice inverter.

They have some nice ones that can connect to a battery as well.
Is there something like this for node.js/typescript?
> In-dock notifications and system notifications are my reasons, as well as a dedicated window I can alt-tab to instead of tabbing through browser windows, then navigating to the Slack tab.

Emacs-slack can get you all of that:-)
It would be trivial to write a script to scrape text.npr.org and send it to you.

Or you can just visit it, I suppose.
we have this perverse incentive, but it’s located at a different place in the chain: the grant agencies.
If they control content, they are publishers, not platforms, and that changes how they are taxed and how they are regulated.

If they want to be treated like platforms with the power of publishers, that's not going to fly.
Hi Alex, I am really sorry for the late reply. Yes, right now we are forwarding all https requests to http. We will correct this soon.
You would have to constantly adjust the resistance of the element to sink the proper amount of power.

Some inverters allow you to over-size the DC(solar) size of the system and indeed dissipate power in excess of its capability as heat.

There are inverter systems that can do nearly anything you want, but they are not typically installed.
> yours are essentially arguments for a national(ized) bank for depositors

Only if you think printing money whenever the central bank feels like it is a good idea and we just need to make sure they don't play favorites.

But not if you think, as I do, that it would be better for the central bank not to monkey with the money supply at all.
I am really sorry for the late reply. Yes, its a mistake from our side. We are going to correct it soon.
It’s not user friendly (export limit setup), as it should be set by your solar installer at system provisioning. There’s only a few markets in the world it applies to (Arizona, Hawaii, parts of Australia).

In short, newer inverters can’t be overloaded if there isn’t enough load and too much sun.
> ...and more processor architectures than most other kernels could dream of touching.

I don't think it comes close to BSD, Linux, or even QNX in that regard.
That meant $1,000 to $2,400 worth of cake for a party of 160 or so, even though the menu at the wedding location we had chosen came with dessert.

Well, good for her on saving some dough, but 160 guests makes this sound like not only a First World Problem but a rather upper class first world problem at that.
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That's literally what a bond rating measures: whether a particular bond is likely to be repaid. A short-term bond is generally anything that comes to maturity before one year, and long-term is anything else.
Thanks for the feedback Arthur. Is there any way i can reach you to talk about the product and get some more feedback? Thanks
But we're not all computer scientists are we?
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Have you tried mapping caps lock to escape?
> They need to...start actually vetting their suppliers, but that’s hard and expensive so they will never do it.

I agree they need to start actually vetting their suppliers. But I disagree with you about the ranking. "Sort by average ranking" is broken obviously brain dead ways. They need a transparent ranking system that correctly balances number of reviews with average rating. I don't want to user their actually opaque "relevance" ranking.
You gotta be careful with that. You may end up causing major damage infrastructure and potentially lead to fatalities. Creating smoke in an area where the probability of causing a forest fire is negligible is one thing, but purposely starting a forest fire is extremely dangerous and illegal.
This goes through cycles every few years. We seem to be in the cash discount part of the cycle now. Then stations discover they don't like losing customers who want to pay by credit but are getting "ripped off." Admittedly apps may make things different this go-round.
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Inequality in land ownership has been continuously increasing in the United States since the 1930s. Higher property tax rates on land ownership are needed to reverse it, as well as the elimination of property tax exemptions which the owners of non-profits, private forests, golf courses, etc are currently receiving.
In my experience, the version authors are allowed to share is after peer review but before copy editing. Idk if that is technically preprint, but it's the version I put on arXiv.
Typing this on a FILCO Majestouch Convertible2 FKBC91MRL/JB2 with Cherry Red switches. I have the same keyboard at home and work. Proper keyboards make so much difference in speed and accuracy of typing for me.
I kicked the solar installer out after he did the physical work, I did the rest of the provisioning and configuration after the inspections cleared and the meter was swapped.

He was insisting on installing a cellular modem on my inverter and maintaining remote access and control over it. I did not want this, so I did not allow them to.
> The "reason" for QE was not for the banks to lend out all of their new funds.

No, just the 97% of them that banks (at least those in the "upper reserve tranche" at the Fed, which is basically any bank you've ever heard of) are allowed to lend out. But in fact banks lent out virtually none of it.

> They did lend a fraction.

A tiny fraction (a few percent).

> That it was not a bigger fraction should tell you something about the perceived risks and risk appetite at the time

Which was exactly the point the Fed did not get at the time. (In the Fed's obfuscatory language, the "money multiplier" decreased drastically, which they had not expected.)
I have to quibble a little bit, pointing specifically at psychology because it's first in your list. I don't know if there's an "official" demarcation for what comprises a quantum theory. But there's no psychological experiment or theory that hinges on the value of Planck's constant, or that demonstrates a shortcoming of classical mechanics.
>I wonder if, faced with this choice, most people would not simply become vegetarians.

Probably not if they had to forage all their foods at current densities.
You can get to the most remote area of the Trinity Alps pretty easily from the Bay Area. You head north and then eventually get on highway 3 and take that to Trinity Alps road. You drive maybe 10 miles and the there is Stuart Fork trailhead. The hike is probably 10-13 miles to get to the area shown in the map (though the scramble up to the actual most remote area would be tough). I went to Emerald and Sapphire lakes last year (near the most remote area) and it was pretty painless. Perhaps you were just approaching the alps from another area?
I explicitly bought the 12.9" iPad Pro over the 9.7" to read the replica edition of the NY Times without having tiny text :/
Its a negative, click-baity headline. A more accurate headline that matches the article would be "Its harder to write a bestseller than most people think."

Ultimately the article agrees with your perspective. The last paragraph: "If you want to write a book, do it. It’s wonderful and horrible and fulfilling and soul-crushing all at the same time. But do it because you want to, not because someone suggested it one time."
> Sometimes I wonder if it would have been better keeping the web as a document platform without any scripting, and creating a separate one for apps.

The app platform would consume the document platform because it is easier to enforce DRM requirements in an app platform than in a document platform.

I'm just thankful that I can still Print to PDF nearly anything. I don't think it will last much longer though because "web" "designers" are driven to destroy anything and everything that was actually good about the web in their quest to monetize every pixel on my screen.
How does Faust work with Django? There’s a mention on needing gevent or eventlet to bridge, but nothing about how you’d integrate the two.

I’m assuming the entrypoint would need a django.setup, and then you’d import the modules that had the Faust tasks? A how-to in the docs would be very useful.

I see in one of the other comments about acking due to an exception. This is one of the major issues with celery IMO (at least before version 4 before the new setting was added). I’d hope that exception acking would at least be configurable.
I dislike discord for serious work on a pragmatic level. Every team member is automatically a member of every channel, which is unnecessary and doesn't reflect the needs of even a small company like mine, where there are channels for things like marketing and operations that I, a programmer, don't care about or need to be involved in. Furthermore, and this issue grows as your team does, Discord doesn't have threading. Conversations between 2 or 3 people dominate channels, and if two groups try to have a conversation in the same channel at the same time, it descends into chaos. Sure, you could just tell people to limit conversations to one at a time or make greater use of DMs, but why, in 2018, restrict ourselves to treating text chat like we used to treat radios? The whole advantage of slack is that it's somewhat asynchronous, I can jump into a thread I ignored a few hours ago and concerned parties will see my new message without flooding more recent conversation in the same channel.

To your point, I don't see how fine grained permissions would help with the issue OP points out. Sure, it lets you represent a hierarchy of sorts, but only in terms of what features of the app users are and aren't allowed to use, it doesn't change the nature of the communication.
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I'm a Canadian living in Canada. Nobody likes interac, debit only system and sending money to others has crazy fees for small transactions.
Potentially most relevant: https://www.xkcd.com/1958/
The default rational type isn't unlimited precision.

See my comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/93dabg/perl_6_small_s... for an explanation and demonstration of P6's approach.
Hah I wonder how much of this we do presently without realizing. Shaking hands maybe
Or, perhaps the Republican/Trump dirt, like the missing link (in evolutionary theory), doesn't exist?
I misread that as ZTT and was looking forward to seeing something quite different...
Nothing on the front page suggests that anything has been updated. Title is still “Ex-SolarCity employees: We were fired after reporting millions in fake sales.”
This is something I've been thinking about recently due to a potential new policy from PG&E (Northern California electric utility) in which they would preemptively shut down electricity to high fire risk areas when red flag conditions are present. I live in the Oakland hills which would be affected by that plan. PG&E says they expect such an outage would occur 2-3 times per year in October/November, and that because they have to do a lot of safety checks before restoring power, that we should expect those outages to last 3-5 days.

So 3-5 day outages 2-3 times a year sounds like a right pain the ass, and certainly has me looking at adding a powerwall to our PV system. I had wanted one anyway for backup in the event of an earthquake or other event that might disrupt power for an extended time, but now we're almost guaranteed those outage events, rather than it being a hypothetical.
That's a lengthy name for the simple operation of getting the first element of a list if there is one. I would have preferred 'car' :-)
You've written precisely what I thought about that...
Every time stuff like this comes up I think of these guys http://discreteanalysisjournal.com/post/40

This is the best model I've seen for modern publishing
Yeah but most people need to earn a $, and most places offering a $ or two are open plan.