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In modern competitive markets, regaining economic dominance (without the sword) will take time, yes.

Can't actively attack people for 150 years+ (Chinese, see Imperial Cruise, Secret Japan Treaty of 1905) and expect them to, through peaceful means, dig themselves out in less than the time the attack was sustained.

I'm sure many in the west are ready to move on but usually the criminal doesnt decide when it's time to move on, the victim does.

Hence the usefulness in avoiding criminality.
That's fascinating. Curious how the gas is stored. I remember for a while there was talk of fuel cells based on hydrogen, but safely storing the gas was problematic.
Depends a lot on the hybrid. Prius is the most reliable car you can buy. When I sold mine at 130k miles, it still had the original brake pads. You are right about the jack of all trades, and IMHO that's a good thing.
You won't like this idea but in Japan you're required to show you have a place to park your car before you're allowed to buy one. If there was a market for parking spaces with power it seems like they'd start showing up pretty quickly.
The article appears to be more nuanced than your comment seems to imply. The conclusion of the article is that it's a good thing that the law impacts smaller advertisers rather than Facebook and Google.

>The activists may not have gotten the legal weapon they wanted, but they did get the legal weapon that users deserve.
>The prices have to come down too. the Electric cars are 5-6 times more expensive than the normal cars.

No they're not. More like 25%-50% more expensive, and the difference keeps narrowing.
I think the highest level of widevine will not work, which is probably used for 4k and such, but regular widevine that works on linux distros will still work since it doesn't need anything special.
Modern currently is dominated by fast aggro and combo, with a resurgence of control to pray on combo. Midrange is basically dead.
I don't think search works inside images but works well for PDFs. Just this morning I was trying to find a particular paper on LSTMs and NLP and I found what I needed very quickly.
Wayland worked really well on Ubuntu 18.04 for the period of time I tried it.
One plausible physical explanation for IF is it promotes autophagy. 18-22 range probably doesn't gain much if any AIUI since you system is already running near optimum if you just eat regular times and don't snack around the clock. But older? Maybe the human body takes longer, in general, to switch on autophagy as it ages, and the additional time in the food-gap helps.
Yes, there's lots of ugly in US history. It's been very effectively suppressed. Most Americans will think that you're some sort of conspiracy theorist :(

And by the way, US tobacco manufacturers also managed to addict most of Southeast Asia. I highly recommend Drugs and Rights by Douglas N. Husak (Rutgers, 1992).[0]

0) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/drugs-and-rights/0C9669...
Well the obvious answer is parking spots will need to get electrified. Most new condos where I live already come with enough electrical provision pre-planned to electrify parking spots if needed and old ones are considering adding provisions.

Household wiring will anyway not have enough current capacity to support charging, so smart plug based billing will likely be the way these things will go. Since electric cars ARE becoming cheaper economically for city use, this likely WILL happen. Accelerating the trend will be the fact that property prices will go up/down depending on availability of electric charging - so big property owners will start making these investments since there's no lack of capital among them.

Basically, these tipping point things don't necessarily happen because of "activism" but happen when economics cause a runaway effect (think spread of mobile connectivity for another example) - so to that extent Tesla is pushing in the right direction by trying to get economics right.
They make a lot of sense for shared ownership. In my city, there's a cooperative running a fleet of cars, similar to bike sharing programs, with dedicated parking spots that have electricity.
Programming Languages are not Languages
It doesn't even take up much room, even if you travel with considerable water supplies (which takes up the most room and also is the most important, both for obvious reasons).

Almost everything else on the list is space efficient and/or packs in specific areas in your car made to store things like tools, spare tires, etc. People have a lot of room in their vehicles that go to waste simply because they don't read user manuals.
> Node never really got a rails

I'm, admittedly, out of the loop when it comes to Node, but I do remember Sails looking promising when it was first announced. I recently suggested it to someone (who uses Node regularly) as a possible solution for a project we're working on and they'd never heard of it. So, between that reaction and the fact that I haven't heard of anyone else using it (or anything similar), I think you're right that a Railsy solution never took off.

Elixir is an interesting counterpoint, though. It seems like Phoenix was released and saw broad adoption very early on.

I'm wondering if this dichotomy is a result of where people are coming to these newer languages from: people writing Elixir probably aren't coming from the FE/JS world, but there's a very good chance people writing Node are. Prior to the somewhat recent proliferation of JS client app frameworks, using a smattering of libraries was a very common approach to solving problems. (It arguably still is, albeit at a different level of abstraction in React/Babel/Webpack land.)

Anyways, I'll be looking forward to reading the post you alluded to above, should it ever come together.
It's value is in

(1) combing a no-fuss GUI and the ability to run most major proprietary apps with a UNIX underpinning. If you also want to combine that with multimedia work (serious photo and video editing, graphic and print design, DAW work, Linux is a no-player, you need either Windows or OS X. Yes, there's Inscape and a few other tools, but only outliers use them and you'll be missing on almost all major tools and commercial products).

(2) some not-found-elsewhere niceties in the hardware (great trackpad, fine display, sturdy all-one metallic, construction, top-notch SSDs, no-fuss sleep/wake, nice latch, great aesthetic, and such).

(3) works nicely as an ecosystem of products

(4) Finally, it's in resale value.

It's value is not and has never been in bang for the buck or big performance.

And it has lost points regarding (2) through the loss of magsafe (another handy exclusive feature), worsening of the keyboard, and drop of some handy ports.

>PS: I do have to say though that all their pro hardware seems to be very overpriced

Some of it is (e.g. Macbook Air/Mini/etc are long in the tooth, at this point you're paying just for the privilege of using OS X, which many don't care about that much). But their costlier models are not really overpriced, they're just high-end.

I often look to get a comparable machine for Windows, and when you add the same things from machines from Dell, IBM, Razer, you get at the same price range very soon. I'm not talking about some custom rig desktop with faster cpu and gpu, but about getting something comparable at all levels (their top of the line laptop machine, comparable monitor, ssd, construction, etc).

For me it's still worth it. I like OS X, do lots of programming work (some native, some remote thru SSH), lots of multimedia with Adobe apps and DAWs, hate tinkering (and even more so hardware tinkering and custom rigs), and don't mind paying a premium for something I use 10+ hours each day. I also don't work with .NET, in which case I'd use Windows.
I believe there are companies tackling that pain point, such as FOSSA (http://fossa.io/).
> they are all predicated on the idea that generics are
> somehow hard to grok or use?

No, rather that the Go contracts proposal specifically is "too nuanced".
If you have a car in the city, you should park in your building's parking garage, not in the street. The problem is that residential street parking is overused.

In the street, you charge at a meter, the same place you put in your payment.
http://www.rolecserv.com/ev-charging/product/EV-Charging-Str...
Tesla has a pilot program in the Netherlands.

https://electrek.co/2017/02/03/tesla-controllable-charge-loa...
I think that electric car adoption is going to have similar characteristics to digital cameras. I remember playing with an early digital camera and seeing a poor replacement for film, but with obvious benefits. Back then it was common to hear "serious" photographers pooh-poohing digital, and how it's many drawbacks would mean it would remain niche, and never replace film. It didn't take long and digial cameras improved enough for it to be good enough for happy-snaps. The serious photographers then moved the goalposts to "proper photographers" won't use them because of reason X. From that point the transition was very rapid.

I see the same arguments being made about electric cars. "The batteries are no good in really cold climates", "They'll not a good replacement as I cannot drive 1000 km in one stetch", "I live in an apartment, I can't charge one, on the street".

There are so many obvious benefits of electric cars, as soon as they are close to cost competitive, I bet the transition for new car sales will happen much quicker than many people realize and the infrastructure will quickly follow once the market has spoken.
Same here, I thought hybrids were a lot bigger market. I'm surprised that ~90% of cars sold are still non-hybrid ICE cars. (I don't live in California, but I assume their numbers are fairly representative of the rest of the US.)
I had to switch to a new laptop last year after my old MBP first generation retina died.

I couldn't justify the price, the specs and the keyboard of a new MBP anymore and after much deliberation I chose a $1200 HP Spectre x360.

I do mostly web development work (Ember.js, PHP and Node), and after running Win10 for a few weeks and hating the performance (especially for Node). I installed Ubuntu Budgie, and have been smoothly running it ever since.

The latest Linux kernel provides me with excellent battery performance and for a machine a third of the price I must say I made the right choice.
The Fascist Art Director [1] is a thing.

[1] http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...
That... is impressive. But sadly not that surprising.

I heard Joe Rogan (not a frequent listener, but figure he deserves credit) say this once, paraphrased: Look at a 7-11 counter full of cheap pocket knives, $1 lighters, flashlights, and other stupid items. There comes a time in many peoples' lives that they would trade their entire wealth for access to a single one of those tools in a time of dire need.

Spend a few hundred dollars, pack it away, and hope you wasted your money. It's the best possible outcome. But should you need anything in the kit, that $300-500 you spent will have the highest return on investment on anything you bought in your lifetime, even if you were an early adopter of Bitcoin or Google.
I'm reminded of that time when someone's child (?) got lost at a concert and there was a forum trying to find them. Don't recall the name or how it ended, though.
Is there a happy ending? What happened to the unreturned prints? And did the unpunished thieves end up stealing more stuff without getting caught again?
but long trips are so rare in most people's lives. perhaps we will start renting gas cars for long trips. similarly, most people own small-ish cars and rent a u-haul when they need to carry big objects.
JS tooling better than Ruby's? Care to elaborate? Which Node.js framework comes anywhere near the productivity of Rails?
Then you'd have to move to Missouri to actually be able to spend any of that $500k. You couldn't "cash out" and simultaneously stay in Boulder, unless you moved from a four bedroom to an efficiency.
This is really insightful. I've been dealing with South Korea for almost two decades, and the changes there are absolutely incredible. I don't just mean in terms of the visible, but in how people live their lives.

For example, when I first started going there, "foreign" food was hard to find and expensive (I still remember the "steak and spaghetti" places), nobody really had meaningful hobbies, there weren't all that many chain stores and restaurants and most places were mom and pop, everybody smoked, and the idea of having animals as pets was still kind of new.

Fast forward to today and you can find tacos and American BBQ, Pho and Curry -- hell churros are pretty popular. Tons of people have all kinds of hobbies, cafe culture is huge, there's large and mature domestic and foreign chains, but also a renewed "indie scene" for coffee shops and hang outs and the sort. Lots of the more questionable street stalls have moved in doors and come under better safety regulation, smoking is on the way out and the pet craze is virtually out of control.

There definitely was a period (and to much of an extent still is) of over leveraged young people driving luxury cars, first domestic now foreign (several of my acquaintances had SsangYong Chairman cars, now they all have foreign cars), and people dipping into "hobbies" like photography buying $20,000 starter camera kits and other such clumsiness. But the society is maturing incredibly rapidly.

I think what really showed off this level of maturity was the way they handled the recent Presidential protests, removal from office, criminal probe, and new election. It was incredibly civilized, democratic and an example to the world for how a stable, thoughtful and intelligent society should deal with big, difficult issues. I'm unsure if my own country, or most of the Western world would handle it as well.
A quick search on reddit will answer your questions better and give you days worth of reading. /r/financialindependence
Oh, I assumed that he meant the people participating in this anonymous prediction market without insider knowledge are suckers.

As someone with insider knowledge I can also make (practically) guaranteed money. I just can't do it on the stock market since it's blatantly illegal and the stock market isn't anonymous. So I (assuming I am unethical and willing to take the risk of being caught) will also participate.
Awesome advice dude. If this saves one life its worth all the effort.
Digital Cameras really became popular in 90's with webcams. Then more popular with Mobiles.
Try social dancing: salsa, argentine tango, swing.
I don’t see EVs taking off for average Americans until there’s an exponential increase in charging infrastructure. I live in a place where it would make great sense to have an EV (only commute 12 miles each day), but I can’t charge at home (townhouse) and I’m not aware of any chargers in my immediate area. There’s also the issue of travel, meaning an EV can’t really be your only car or else you need to be prepared to rent any time you go on a trip.
Rust does have generics. There's little value in constructing a distinction between "templates", "generics" and "parametric polymorphism", at least not for the parent comment, which was likely intended to mean "Rust has a well designed system for working with 'unknown' types". (Also, maybe you could be specific about what you think the difference is.)

Go also doesn't have subclasses, so that doesn't seem relevant.
Most EVs charge daily. The idea is that you can update charging rate/time to match e.g. wind power output, which tends to peak late night/early morning. Dispatchable load is nearly as useful as dispatchable supply for balancing the grid. Discharging the battery to power the household would be a bad idea outside of emergencies, due to the capacity loss you note.
Every other OS I've used recently (MacOS, Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL, ChromeOS) doesn't require special knowledge or extra work to remove pre-installed spyware/bloatware. They may well have crap installed, but at least they're subtle about it.
That's not the only thing. How about having to drop ~$8K every 6 years to buy all new batteries after the originals have severely degraded.

I think battery tech has to improve quite a bit before EVs can truly overcome ICE vehicles in the mainstream.
The used car market exists.

EV car batteries last at least 7 years, in theory and in the 2010 cars still on the road. After 7 years, they need a battery replacement (similar to how an ICE car needs engine work, just a one-shot replacement instead of lots of minor maintenance and repairs), and the old batteries are easily refurbished into other kinds of batteries (like home backup batteries) where charge-per-unit-weight-and-volume is less critical than in a car.
I do not want a “mobile interface” in the sense of hamburger menus, etc. but mobile should be a little better, such as:

- Bigger up/down vote buttons or more spacing.

- Better mobile rendering of preformatted comments (currently unreadable without tons of awkward scrolling).

- Better navigation of extremely long comment threads. (Indentation alone is lost after awhile; vertical lines might help.)
> you should park in your building's parking garage, not in the street

Let them eat cake, in other words?
Is that same-side wirewrapping really better?

The project site lists several advantages including faster re-works and it being easier to see what you're connecting, but that doesn't seem to be the case since all of the wires are crammed into little channels between the chips.

On the underside of the board there's more room to spread the wires out, making it easier to see the pins and to find the wire you need to re-work - usually you can trace the wires visually, especially if you do some color coding.

They don't seem to be too hard to find, Jameco and Mouser (among other places) carry them, a 40 pin socket for a Z-80 costs $5
I don't know why you think so.
The farther the microphone gets from your ears the harder the problem gets to solve. It's an interesting idea, but I suspect this won't see prime time in any meaningful way.
"Hey, you've streamed this 10 times, would you like to download and save us bandwidth?"
I have read there will be two stages here. First the cars will get cheap enough, and there will be enough charger stations, so they start to get bought in mass.

And when this goes far enough, it will send the ICE into a death spiral due to things like gas stations closing and fixed production costs per car getting too high because they are spread over too few sold cars. Also people will be won't be willing to spend as much for a given ICE model because they see the future trends and know it will not bring as much when later sold used.
Any advice on models or tactics for buying a used car? I have been struggling to find something for nearly 2 months now. All I really need is inexpensive.
First, framing: obviously, every company would love to hire candidates who are proven experts in their methodology and their technology and their industry. But it's just as obvious that this isn't possible. So hiring involves compromise. You don't need to get every question "right" in order to be a winning candidate.

Second, as itamarst said: always be honest, but also be curious. If you're consistently seeing something come up in ads or interviews for the places you want to work, dedicate the time to research it thoroughly and earnestly. You can't invent experience, but you can demonstrate enthusiasm and preparedness.

Third, fulfill the compromise: look for jobs where you're already a very good fit for other details like familiarity with their industry or with a particular solution. The more you stand out by some measures, the more leeway they'll afford you for others.
Historically in Europe it was sugar that was super expensive, and honey was the only widely available sweetener.
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The ideal scenario is that it saves none. :)

Totally agree, however. And thank you very much.
I generally use England interchangeably with Britian for Opium War related statements, because the main actors (and beneficiaries) at the end of the day were English, not Irish, not Australian, etc... down the list.

Germans werent huge Opium pushers at the time (compared to the English, French, and American). So score 1 for Germany, good decision on their part.

I would expect not having major part of your economy propped up by illcit trading has long term positive consequences, Germany is enjoying the fruits of that to some extent.

You can predict what people with ill-gotten gains do with their money (it's a different discussion but consider what corruption costs society/economy when looking at the 2nd and 3rd order effects of corrupt money).
You're in the Bay Area, and you somehow found a house without HOA here in NIMBY land?!
And many bus routes run only at night
Not to mention access to amphetamines if you're someone like me who burns out easily without them. Fortunately it's completely trivial to get them legally in the US.
I know next to nothing about physics, but I think time is more concrete than that. There have been experiments in which they've measured discrepancies in different clocks according to what physics predicts. That is, time passes differently according to your position/speed in space. In that sense, time isn't just arbitrarily declared by the guy holding the clock. I'm not sure if that addresses your concerns at all...
No. In all seriousness if you need a lot of ram and cpu resources you should be remotely controlling a big, loud, beefy xen or kvm hypervisor that is remote to you.

No laptop is going to substitute for something like a used $800 Dell poweredge r910 with 32 cores or a selfbuilt, new, 16 or 32-core threadripper or epyc machine.

The 12" MacBook (not air) is a great little laptop if you can deal with the single usb-c port.
It's already under $6K for a LEAF battery replacement. ICE drivers have to drop at least ~8K every 6 years for gasoline and engine maintenance and repair.
And "severely degraded" is -30% capacity, not really severe except in the older lowest-capacity batteries.

https://electrek.co/2018/03/26/nissan-leaf-battery-pack-repl...
Interesting, but how do you carry it? It's too big for your pocket, will it have a strap so you can hang it from your shoulder, or what?
>Netflix seems to be a good example of forward thinking.

We already have content from the music companies to streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, which is exactly what Netflix does.

In fact we had streaming services for music long before Netflix was a thing (e.g. Real's), so theirs is hardly "forward thinking".
Cheers, well met. :)
Consider getting a Thinkpad. They are quite indestructible (at least compared to Macbooks -- the ThinkPad durability used to be legendary but has also gone downhill quite a bit these days). The value per dollar is also quite high, especially if you can get a corporate or student discount (you might be surprised what you are eligible for with a still-working @.edu email address or an old corporate job that you no longer work for).
The Mosquito: deterring loitering by young people via high frequencies
> Household wiring will anyway not have enough current capacity to support charging

citation needed
> Unlike general relativity, quantum mechanics, and particle physics, thermodynamics embeds a direction of time.

This is the bit that irks me. Quantum mechanics, the real QM that physicists actually use, involves collapse of the wavefunction. This is absolutely time-asymmetric. But in all these discussions of "why is time one-way?" this never seems to be mentioned. Apparently QM is not a real theory, and just a placeholder until we can work something out properly. Irk!
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