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>Science is the process, not the results.

The scientific process is an abstract idea. Unless you believe in the reality of platonic ideas, the real world offers a much messier application of the scientific process.

Besides, I've already covered that.

>And every "point" you've brought up is the same canard flat Earthers, young Earth creationists, and other sort of pseudo-science hack pushes.

Which is neither a scientific argument, nor a relevant one. The fact that people who have wrong opinions on another matter (e.g. whether the earth if flat) also put forward this argument regarding science, does not mean it is false. You simply committed a logical fallacy.

In fact, I'm not even sure those people put forward this argument in any case. Young Earth creationists, for example, put forward other kinds of arguments (e.g. that the Bible knows better, which is not the same as "real science is a messy human process, never trust what its practitioners say just because it's labelled as science").

>He decided "Willie Nelson, Checkmate."

Well, it's a good counter-example. At the very least, it proves (given what we know about Nelson is true) that the findings in the research are not an absolute truth but it can vary for each person. Heck, those researches should also study Nelson and other lucid older heavy users, and learn what they can from them as well.

Besides, asdf never professed to put up a scientific argument. He just made a casual comment in an online forum. Notice how everything he said is totally rational and empirically verifiable:

"Article is light on details on what constitutes brain aging, but judging by 85 year old Willie Nelson's articulateness in his 2018 interviews, I hope to be aging my brain some day, as I get closer to retirement. Deep, gravelly, I don't give a fuck, voice. Zero hesitation, when he feels like expressing himself."

He doesn't even say that the article is wrong "because Willie": just that Willie Nelson is very articulate despite being a heavy user, and that he hopes to be as "brain aged" as he is, when he gets close to retirement.

>So yes, I trust science, because I trust the process.

Too bad. There's no pure process in the world. There are just people who are supposed to follow a process, and you need to not just trust the process, but also to trust the people that they will follow it properly.

(In fact even the concept of such a "process" is mumbo jumbo: there's no single well specified "scientific process", with a predetermined set of rules that every practitioner follows or is supposed to follow. It's an umbrella term referring to all kinds of practices, described in several different abstract ways by philosophers of science based on a set of high level steps). Even "peer review" is a relatively recent phenomenon, as is "publish or perish").
No. Linux can’t match Mac OS on battery life.
I paid $1200 for a maxed-out 2015 13" MBP at the beginning of this year, and I would recommend that in place of a new MBP for most people. It was unopened/brand new, from a certified seller. The one I bought it from is out of stock, hopefully other certified sellers still have some.

I have a 2013 15" MBP (barebones spec), previously had a maxed-out 2016 15" MBP (with touchbar) for work, and currently have a maxed-out 2017 (also with touchbar) for work. I really dislike the new keyboard, and the USB-C ports are still a pain point. I never use the touchbar, in fact I wish I didn't have it at all.
I just bought a Dell XPS after eight years of Mac use. Zero productivity loss, now I can test pen and touch GUI on the laptop. Can run Linux, can run windows. Honestly, the 4k display is even better than my last Macbook's retina display. Oh, and the Dell's keyboard is much better. The big win: function keys.
At 5:13-5:17 in the video you can see the thing moving in the the black void area of those rocks, where the parent marked the image. The problem is, the drone proceeds to produce another better top-down view as it moves over top of the thing in question - it has little to no consequential mass (something akin to a fat reed), it's plainly not a person. Full screen at max resolution helps a lot.
Old laptops have old batteries that need to be replaced. Since it's Apple this will likely cost enough to justify buying new.
How do you spot that someone has quit Facebook? They'll tell you.
It has! I've been using Ubuntu on a thinkpad x1 carbon (2017) for almost a year. Battery life is between 6-8 hours everyday use including work. Probably see between 8-10 if I'm not doing any programming
Frequent flyers fly business class. It would be insane to fly a full work flight schedule in long-haul economy.

The occasional SFO-NYC in economy where my upgrade doesn't clear is torture. I can't fathom doing my usual 10h weekly flight in economy seats. I fly 150k miles a year, on about 80 flights or so. Pretty much all in business or first. Paid by myself. It's really not as expensive as people think… I spend maybe $15,000 annually on flights. Optimizing judiciously is key.
I've owned a 2016/17 MacBook Pro. Don't do it, OP. The '16/17 models feature the defective keyboard that will eventually break. Plus, they don't have the T2 chip.

I currently own a 2018 MacBook Pro which I like very much, but don't love. I paid $1,599 for it (13" 8GB/256GB w/ Touch Bar) here: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1423729-REG/apple_mr9...
No need, because it is simply untrue: Electric vehicles can charge on anything from 1-ph 8A 240V, to 3-ph 32A 400V, all of which can easily be provided by common urban household wiring.
Jerusalem: Why Palestinian Leaders Say Don't Vote
Autonomous driving is such a big opportunity, that trying to do it wihtout LIDARs is a giant premature optimization.

Just like trying to make fully automated assembly plants.

Whatever edge it may give on sensor cost savings in the long run, it has a steep penalty in time to market.

Even if eventually they make it without LIDARs, guess what? The competitors with successful fleets won’t be too far behind.
90%? There really aren't very many controls in a car, does that mean headlightd and windshield wipers are not on stalks but in a touchscreen?
> "I live in an apartment, I can't charge one, on the street"

I agree with pretty much everything you said, but I still can't fathom how electric cars are going to make more than a dent in NYC where most cars are stored streetside.
If it's really behaving like a liquid, then you wouldn't want those gaps.
> Because society says

I often wonder if it's society saying it, or if it's reality (e.g. our biology or plain logic) saying it and our society just echoing. For example, society is saying that you should brush your teeth, but science is also saying that, so it's a good thing that society is echoing and amplifying the message.

For the specific example you mentioned, I think it's very likely that society is just echoing what biology is dictating, which is that men have sex/children with as many women as they can, and women to select as good genes for their few children as they can.
I think you're underestimating the Tesla supercharger network. It basically solves both of those problems (if you have a Tesla) and live in the vicinity of one - if you don't live near one then it still solves the second issue.

The infrastructure is expanding rapidly, so your "unless" is a fairly safe bet.
NOTE: New low-end MacBooks may be announced in 2 weeks or next month.

Have you identified how much RAM and disk space you actually need for your workflow?

If you just want something “good enough” you might be able to make do with even the $1300 Core m3, 8GB, 256GB, 12” MacBook [0], or even a PC running macOS in a VM.

Otherwise the answer is “as much as you can afford.”

I haven’t compared markets lately, but I think that although you’ll find PC laptops that exceed MacBooks in a couple specs here and there, you may be hard pressed to find something that betters a MacBook across the board in many areas (including Thunderbolt 3, SSD performance, trackpad, color gamut and battery time) and still beats it at price. Then of course there’s the value of the OS.

The Touch Bar can also be surprisingly handy if you give it an honest chance. Search for third-party tools that let you customize it, like BetterTouchTool [1].

[0] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook

[1] https://lifehacker.com/customize-your-macs-touch-bar-with-be...
The sad truth is most people's friends are boring
Every developer is different and the most effective management is rooted in what they need, not what you needed when you were in their position.

In my case, as a developer, I was independently very responsible and communicative. I didn't need much attention to do my job well and could sometimes grow prickly under too much oversight. As long as my managers could answer (/dispatch) my questions and explain what they needed, things would just get done and risks/issues would be reported.

When I began managing projects, I learned that some developers would totally flounder if I managed them the way I had needed to be managed. Some needed me to anticipate their needs more pro-actively, some needed me to prompt them to report their concerns or to ask questions, some needed regular reporting or frequent deadlines just to stay on track, some needed very detailed guidance to feel confident about what they were doing, etc.

There wasn't anything worse about the work they'd do when well managed, but their needs were different.

Despite what some books and pundits might suggest, developer/project management is not a one-size-fits-all thing.
It only looks like the wave function collapses if you fail to take into account that the ones doing the experiment are quantum mechanical as well.

If you could run an experiment where you account for the interaction between the apparatus and the observer, a meta experiment if you will, you would not see the wave function collapse that the observer thinks they observed.
Unless you use macOS or iOS in production, just buy a regular laptop and install Linux.

A very minimal setup with XFCE can give you decent performance and battery life.
I never thought of that. Are there the same moves in tiny electric hatchbacks (eg kei sized, not Leafs), scooters, mopeds, etc as there is currently in fullsize cars? I'd love a high quality electric moped to run down the shops and pick up milk and bread, or pick something up from the post office. All I've seen is those cheap plastic electric mopeds that people get from eBay/Aliexpress or Costco. I don't remember seeing anything of the big-name quality.
Except along with that -30% capacity drop, there is also increased internal resistance in the battery that is also going to affect range (lower miles/kWh). It's not just -30% capacity = -30% range. E.g. this Leaf owner who, after 5 years, had -37% capacity but -50% effective range: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-life-expectancy-of-a-Nissa...

I won't dispute the $8K/6 years for ICE vehicles (although I am curious if that's legit) but if you look at the savings rate of the average American I think you'll see ICEs' steady expense rate of gas fillups, oil change, etc. suit it better than EVs' lower day-to-day but eventual massive hit.
Asking how much was due to a specific cause isn't "reducing the problem". Anxiety is among the most treatable of all mental illness.
In my experience, learning something hard without applying it to a real problem during several weeks or months, spending hours trying to solve weird errors is impossible.

Keep in mind that learn something is very different to understand something. Maybe I understand functional programming, but if I haven't worked on a real project that uses a functional programming language, I probably suck at it.
"I bring a map and compass anytime I go out for a hike"

It's also a good idea to learn how to actually use a map and a compass. Doing so effectively is not necessarily the most intuitive thing in the world, and does take some skill.
You should add South Korea to the list since that's the topic :-) That is a nice website, just add "-KR" to the other entries. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?end=2...
Of course. So how and when did they begin to make jams and marmalades? It seems... post new world.
I don't share most of the concerns people have about Facebook (including Om's here about sharing inauthentic life through photos)--I mostly just post text updates--but I wonder if their efforts over the last few years to move from people sharing political links etc to engaging more on original text posts have been working. I feel like when I posted stuff to FB some years ago I got more responses than when I post now.

Seems like the main activity that people I know are into on FB is Groups, which again takes it away from personal update territory. Good thing they bought Instagram/WhatsApp or they could have ended up in a decline phase already...
Yeah definitely felt half finished. Where are they now?

Edit: here's a more complete version of the story: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/662854
Quick note: Total number of people who use FB every single day of their lives in the US stayed steady Q1 to Q2 at 183 million people. This was through all the Cambridge and privacy stuff. The HN bubble is very different than reality.
I think he really boils it down to the fundamental question everyone should be asking themselves: do you want to define yourself through the eyes of others, or not?
> To get an MBP with similar performance to those other machines, I would have to pay approximately $1,000 more.

Examples?

MBPs have been reported to have the fastest SSDs on the market since 2016 [0], and I doubt you can get laptops with the same resolution and wide color gamut for much cheaper.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/2016-macbook-pro-ssd/
That product is not made by Panasonic but by Pika Energy (https://www.pika-energy.com/harbor-battery/).

Never heard of Pika before? Me neither.

Which is why they are not as much a threat to Tesla's Powerwall as you claim.

When you order from Tesla (https://www.tesla.com/powerwall) you get some inkling of how much it'll cost.

When you order from Pika (https://www.pika-energy.com/purchase/)? "Call us".

I yet have to see any serious competition to Tesla's Powerwall. BMW tried to compete and they folded (https://electrek.co/2018/04/30/mercedes-benz-kills-tesla-pow...).
Plus you have to look at the total operating cost. Electric cars need basically no maintenance while ICEs you have oil changes and brake changes plus a more complicated engine.
This is why any half-measure is kinda a waste. The overhead to "rent something for the occasional need" is far more of a real-world hassle than people are willing to put up with.

Also, having kids dramatically changes what you need in a vehicle, in ways that make any ride-sharing or rental option a significantly greater pain than it would otherwise be.
What software do you use for your wiki?
First Monday Publishes Special Issue on Emoji Epistemology
I couldn't find one of the statements you quoted. Specifically,

Better share this transcendental experience on my blog.

is not in the post. Have you misquoted? Are you deliberately misquoting to prove a larger point?

I gather from your post that you think all of the quoted statements form a contradiction. I don't think it necessarily does and only time will tell if Mr. Malik will use his blog to "live for how others perceive" him. Only time will tell if Mr. Malik uses his blog to do this.

I think Facebook is very good at manipulating people and getting people to engage with it a certain way. These forces of manipulation may not be present for a person who has a personal blog.

I think his statement about the number of his followers is that in spite of this he feels an emptiness with the interaction. Maybe the ego boost is no longer there. I don't think the statement was made for egotistical reasons. I don't know Mr. Malik but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to him.
It's more of an exhortation.
> they do have very good "web clipping" functionality.

Are there services for this where you can link in your own backend?
Thought those property tax numbers were a bit outrageously low ;)
Also the lightweight and tight form factor.

I have travelled a ton with it and its help up the whole way for 14 months and 36+ flights domestic and international.
Well, yeah, defeat utterly then open markets, that would work.
> I left because it was making me someone I am not — someone who lives life through the eyes of others.

I agree so much. I was never an avid Facebook user who posts personal life but I was reading over other's lives and that affected who I am, what I should do with my life. Even though I feel I have full control over my life, what I read from FB about my friends changed what I should be doing to be in the current "trend" to belong to the group.
This old-fashioned attitude is worth changing then.
The second law of thermodynamics is about entropy, which is an observer dependent quantity. It is the discrepancy between what one knows about a system (e.g. its temperature) and its state (e.g. the position and momentum of every particle in a classical gas). A being that knows the exact state of a system does not observe entropy increasing or decreasing. At least classically.

I don't understand the rest of your question.
AFter trying various combinations for years, I settled on keeping a nice big iMac at home and getting a lowest end MacBook for portability + an iPad for bed/couch.

It’s been the ideal setup for me so far.
I remember back in 2007 when I would try to talk to people about this badass upcoming Tesla Roadster that could smoke supercars. A very common thing I heard was: "Yea that's interesting, but I mean, a silent car is just not cool like a screaming V12."

Times change.

Outward status also comes from travel, clothing, food, lifestyle, and housing choices.

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The flip side of the equation is that cars (even electric ones) have enormous externalized costs that are not paid by the owner/driver of the car.

As those costs are accounted, the balance will continue to tilt away from cars where they can be avoided. (Particulate pollution from tires, brakes and road surface wear has an enormous public health cost, congestion & long commutes have enormous productivity and health costs, parking and sprawling development have enormous unaccounted infrastructure costs.)
Regarding the user interface. On my Macbook Pro I have become accustomed to using i3 UI on Linux and now I feel handicapped anytime I switch over to Mac OS or Windows.

The only time I boot Mac OS is if I'm going to be using a browser for a while and can't plug in my laptop. The battery life on Mac OS is much much better.
Isn’t meetup a good source for this? Or industry/society events. ACM/usenix/2600.
Not true.

And Genuine Apple refurbs have certified-to-be-restored batteries in them (ie they will have new batteries as part of refurbishing if needed), and they carry new machine applecare warranty like new machines do - so even if the battery is no longer good, you go to apple, they replace it on their dime.

That's why they are "apple refurbs".
What are the ways to game FAFSA? Convert all your cash into diamonds, so you don’t have to report it?
> I don't get how you can't simply copy files between a macbook and an iphone.

Zip and AirDrop? There are some nice free file managers for iOS, including some that offer sharing over the local network.
If prediction markets are of any value, couldn't you set one up to answer this question?
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I'm working on a product that helps Startups become twice more productive. I'm recruiting users from YC startups who have 5+ team members and use slack. How can I get in touch with such founders?

P.S. I'm applying for YC's next round, but don't want to wait until then. So any quick ways to recruit such customers for now would be appreciated :)

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Could higher-frequency harmonics be resonating in cavities acting as waveguides?
Ironically, displaying that video with this method will make it unreadable.
"Youth is such a wonderful time of life. Too bad it's wasted on young people."
The political aspects is explored in the article and a lot of finger pointing is at the left and not the right. Single-gender bathing places and normalization of more covering bathing clothes is pushed by the progressive left in the name of tolerance.

As can be expected the right is pushing the opposite direction, which is a bit ironic coming from a conservative side. I find it a quite interesting question if the political right are simply doing this because the left are pro-immigration and pro-multiculturalism, or if the conservative politics simply want to keep the exact same level of nudity as in the past. Not more or less.
I agree that the newest model isn't always strictly better than the old model. I still have a 2013 Macbook Air that loyally travels with me everywhere; I bought it new. In that respect, for something that I use (almost) every day I think buying new has worked out well for me, and whenever this thing gives up I'll certainly buy my next laptop new as well (Mac or otherwise).
I've flown pretty much every single first class long-haul product. There are some great first on non-Asian airlines too. You name Emirates / Etihad. I'd say my all time favorite first class is Swiss, and Lufthansa is great too.

Here's the full list I'd consider aspirational and worth flying in long-haul first:
- Swiss
- Lufthansa
- Air France
- Garuda Indonesia
- Singapore
- Emirates
- Etihad
- Korean Air (on 748i and 77W only)
- Thai

Not quite at the same level but still great:
- JAL
- ANA
- Qatar
- Asiana
- Cathay Pacific

The rest are not as good.
I mean they had electric cars when the building was built...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Times-Herald_race
Unless the municipality installs street size charging stations. Then they can charge for parking and electricity.
> I still can't fathom how electric cars are going to make more than a dent in NYC where most cars are stored streetside

Consumer/taxpayer demand for a solution, like most problems in a capitalist democracy.

I imagine streets where every nth parking spot has something that looks like a beefy parking meter, but will allow thick-ish extension cords to run from a car to it. Turn it on with an RFID tied to which house you belong to on the street (ensures only locals can use it, charges the electrical costs to the right house).

It's technically doable with the technology in our hands today and not very complicated to install. Give in 10 more years, there'll be even smarter ideas.
There’s nothing sad about being boring.
While you are sitting next to them sharing a vegan meal not watching TV and listening to Vampire Weekend (before they got big and ruined it for everyone.)
>Have you identified how much RAM and disk space you actually need for your workflow?

You better think hard and choose wisely; the days of being able to upgrade your RAM and SSD are over.
But I can’t pay $100 a month for an electrified spot so...
Mine has, older Linux on older Lenovo was not good but also that battery was aging.

New (<1yr) Asus gives me about four hours of 30+ tabs across two indipendent chrome profiles, my heavy editor, multiple active ssh sessions, other nonsense, keyboard lights (on low) and screen at 60% bright.

I think it's very good.
Coming to YC Winter Batch 2019 - Squeezr, an on-demand masseuse app. For when you pull a muscle while patting yourself on the back for quitting Facebook.
I wonder how much of this is myth, rather than reality. Or rather, only an issue on cars with poor battery cooling/management.
IIRC a little later in the book, debugging involves execution in both senses of the word.
Presumably at that point the 0%-100% recharge time will be competitive with pumping gas.

But I do think between now and then we need more infrastructure for tenants to charge at home.