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Thank you for this reply. I do agree that euphemism creep is a thing. My position is just that his skit on this particular topic seemed very anti-intellectual. It's the same kind of bogus logic used when people who say "just get over it" to someone with serious depression: "back in my day, we just kept a stiff upper lip (meanwhile ignoring all those between now and then who blew their brains out because their lip strategy failed) ".

I do agree that in most cases the language can be contorted to conceal or smooth the direct adjective. I.e African American, minority, margininalized, etc
When done right meetings preserve the flow state. I think of meetings as scheduled communication, and if communication isn't blocked into a schedule then it will either happen ad hoc, or not happen at all. Ad hoc communication results in interruptions, and communication is necessary to have a shared context.

However this experience could be due to me working working on a distributed team. When you're all in the location then it's easier to have ad hoc communication without interruption at places like the water cooler.
As that model has an intel chipset it will probably work fine. The main problem will be wireless because of Intel have the micro-code blob. IIRC you will need want to look at this:

https://man.openbsd.org/fw_update.1

It basically requires you to copy the firmware to a USB stick and run the tool and then Wireless just works.
I think anyone ever frustrated with their calendar has fantasized about building this, but I don't think it'll go well if you ever actually crunch these numbers and show them to your boss.
This is actually really cool. New research being reported on indicates that, for the "saddle" organ it uses to store energy, the shrimp evolved a two-layered structure: one made of ceramic, which is brittle only when under tension but here is compressed heavily; and the other made of a polymer, which is stronger under tension as it is here. So it's a masterful specialization of the right materials for the job.

I've typed this TL;DR primarily because the mods frown on low-effort content, but I really just wanted to post the required viewing for any story about the mantis shrimp, a YouTube classic: True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM
I'd like some feedback on the styling, coding and overall layout of the page. Are there any suggestions, changes, or enhancements you'd make personally?
This has 260 mile range, and the webpage says 'Standard battery available in 4 to 6 months' so this still isn't the $35k Tesla. Its a sort of in-the-middle option.

Long Range > Mid Range > Standard
This is neither the short range battery (220 miles, $35k base price) or the long range battery (310 miles, $49k base price). This is a 3rd option: mid-range battery (260 miles, $45k base price).
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The average time to complete a scheme card transaction is sub 4 seconds on a lowish-latency network. Any extra time is due to the implementation on the merchant side.
and two more:

The US military tends to buy things in the USA for obvious reasons. That costs more. One would expect the Chinese military to buy things made in China. That saves money, making the military effort look smaller.

The US military pays for lots of stuff that isn't really military. Consider VA hospitals for veterans. Some countries would count that sort of thing in a military budget, while others would not.
I kinda get you, but just because there's a bunch of marketing gibberish on the pricing page doesn't mean they aren't being disruptive.
3.5% versus 2.2-2.4% for UK and France. Somewhat more but not inconsistent with US commitments to NATO, Japan, and SK.
Yes, they likely are. I only see $7500 as my incentives line. You can click "Learn more" in the Federal Tax Credit blurb to get more info on the incentives, it might include state information.

I assume the 35000 model is the "Standard Battery available in 4-6 months" that's below the options.
It is very much connected. Many people don't have the necessary stability to raise kids, so they don't. And no small amount of rich people don't want kids because they don't want to dedicate that much attention to something else but themselves -- egotism is not illegal after all. But I think this second example amounts to much smaller contribution to the birth rate decline.
It's also coal.
On the other hand some of this can be explained by linux being a higher value target with more security research around it. If I find a remote exploit in the linux kernel I have a few billion targets, but if I find one in a *BSD I probably have a few million, tops.
The problem with simple parameters is that I need to drag all of my low level stuff through all of the layers of the application.

I one was imagining a framework for Closure that would do something like that:

- you define a bunch of functions. Some of this functions depend on other of those functions.

- for dependent ones you define parameters and tag them somehow

- you call this functions without mentioning those tagged parameters

- during the startup the framework takes over and does partial application, generating functions with same names but without tagged parameters, so you kinda have your dependencies injected.

I don’t know if this sounds too crazy or too incorrect for Closure’s paradigm.
inequality increases with total wealth.

Other countries people are more "equally poor".

Read Milton Friedman for a treatment of this subject
Out of interest, what's the eventual revenue model here?

Middleman matchmaking services face some clear challenges to recurring revenue. Homejoy, for instance, still shut down even after showing impressive user acquisition numbers because it was cheaper for the cleaner and client to cut a deal amongst themselves. Uber only works as well as it does because geographic scarcity and immediate need - traits _relatively_ unique to the transportation industry.

Very cool concept; hope it works out for you :)
I worked for an ex-Australian Navy commander who managed various Asset and Maintenance groups for various organisations. The subject of maintenance is a very interesting subject.

If your maintenance regime is done properly, over the long haul, you save a fortune. Do your normal maintenance, refurbish at the correct times and replace with new when the % maintenance cost has reached the trigger point.

This means that every asset lasts longer (on the whole) costing you less and you get some return on that asset in the end. The one thing that generally gets in the way of proper maintenance are the accountants. They have a penchant for not understanding maintenance and future costs.

I have seen them willing to spend up to 80% of the cost of replacement for an item on repairing an item year on year, when it would be better to simply replace the item in question. They also seem to have the general attitude of "It's working therefore we do not need to spend any money on maintenance for it." This attitude seems to ensure that all sorts of organisations have a continually degrading asset base instead of a maintained asset base.

If you were to look at each state government in any country, you will find that most of the state assets are ill-maintained and that to get them to the correct maintenance level would be more than the current state budgets.

The other side of this is that accountants have a skewed point of view as to what is an asset and what is not. As such they will spend plenty of money on smaller item with replacement rather than refurbish or repair those items. Hence, office furniture, phones, computers, etc, are treated as consumable items and not worth repairing. So why would suppliers and manufacturers be bothered to make these items repairable?

Change the mindset of those whose responsibility is the finance and your will see a change in what supplier and manufacturers do in terms of repairability of their products. The small scale consumer such as us would then then benefit from this.

It effect, the mentality of not repairing items has a number of interconnected causes that feed the problem, from the basic tax law and attitudes of accountants "protecting" the bottom line, to companies using this attitude to make it cheaper to not design products that are repairable, to patent law and copyright law, to that simple staple called greed and the other stable called politics.
Makes you wonder though how despite all these collective spending, Russia with less than 10% of this budget remains a huge threat and NATO should further increase its budget to account for this. Seems more like we waste our money instead of spending wisely, doesn't it?
Maybe someone should disrupt the war industry.
The author explains a few problems with the current state of the Web under the section The Five Lacks:

- "On the closed social web... We lack freedom, innovation, trust, respect, and transparency."

- "Innovation on these platforms is dying."

- "And there’s little transparency. All of the data is locked up or rate limited to a prohibitive degree."

While some of these may or not even be true (innovation dying, really?), I think the author makes a large leap from his premises to the conclusion. So just because the author claims there are issues with the current state of the web, that doesn't mean the solution is to completely ditch "the tech giants in control suppress our freedom" and remove yourself from the current web platform and applications (e.g. fb, google, etc.)

The best way to determine whether this is a viable and useful solution, and whether or not some of the apps are actually something people want and find useful is to see how many people ditch applications from the "tech giants" start using these new apps built for the social web.

A lot of ideas sounds great in theory, but then don't hold up years down the line. Plenty of new applications and social networks have been created over the years with great explanations and a "Our Philosophy" section, but what actually matters is whether or not people change their habits and start using these new applications.

The problems the author listed in The Five Lacks section are completely real problems on a lot of the applications on the Web, but I don't think any of these social web apps listed in the article are the solution.
If you order right now, there's a chance you'll still get the car by the end of the year (which is all that really matters with the credit), but you'd be cutting it pretty close. All Tesla claimed was that Oct 15 is the deadline for guaranteeing getting the car before the end of the year. Likely, there'll be a bit of leeway that will see people ordering within the next few days also get the car by the end of the year, especially with a 4-6 week promised turnaround for the AWD models (6-10 on the RWD one talked about here cuts it really close).
I wasn't sure exactly but I know VDH is into this sort of thing so I searched "Victor Davis Hanson Nato Contribution" and snagged this result

"And when Berlin decides it will not pony up the promised 2 percent of GDP for its NATO contribution, other laggard countries follow its example. Only six of the 29 NATO members (other than the U.S.) so far have met their promised assessments."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/nato-biggest-challeng...
For anybody that is wondering what baddum-ts means, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDAlblogUmY
The place I work just wrapped up a white label project for your previous company. Small world.
I agree it wasn't the best example. I was aiming at something that you would buy your kid twice a year... and even though that expense is pretty rare, the parents still don't have the money.

I failed to convey the message. Sorry.

My overall point is there are quite a bit of things the kids need outside of immediate survival. For example, between ages 1 and 10 you basically have to buy them new shoes twice a year... And not having the money for that would suck a lot.
I think part of the point of being disruptive is that you don't need to sink that low.
On the average, IQ is 100. That is quite heritable. I’m not sure that’s meaningful genetically.

Even correlated high IQ across generations can easily be a nuture over nature deal—see the above article for one hypothesis.

Finally, even if high IQ is genetically heritable, it may still require cultural or experiential “activation” to nuture intrinsic ability.

There are simply too many variables to casually state any causal relation.
I upvoted you.
Why OOP is bad: In 8 years professional (for money) programming experience i had zero use cases for OOP. Every time I tried to use OOP it backfired and I abandoned it. Maybe I just never really understood OOP or maybe I already use OOP all the time without calling it OOP.
Spotify takes minor stake in music distributor DistroKid
Thanks a lot, I’ll take a look
That's true in the EU, which is why commissioned public sculptures and other forms of visual art have become a rarity of late in the EU.
Alright, a house I own (and am currently failing to sell) is in an opportunity zone. Hypothetically, is there a way I could benefit from this?
My opinion on HFTs with Robinhood
It honestly doesn't matter. Every brokerage has some kind of deal with HFTs. Retail investors already have many disadvantages compared to institutions and this small "disadvantages" won't outweigh the benefit of free commissions.

I have seen many articles across other social platforms chastising Robinhood with its dealings with HFTs. I realized that there's no free lunch man. we need to realize that fast markets aren't our enemy.
Nebraska Tourism Commission's new slogan: ‘Honestly, It’s not for everyone.’
If you think gentrification is bad, you should see the alternatives. They are real. https://goo.gl/maps/veQSXmD7Z5G2
When I was a child I had a book that listed quite a few of these. It was so popular with my classmates in kindergarten that the school ended up banning paper airplanes except on "Paper Airplane Fridays."
I'm looking forward to seeing the lower price Air replacement. It's been a long time coming.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.5391.pdf
Yeah. Sorry :(
Before I looked at the page I thought to myself, "Let me guess, this is going to be a list of 'rights' they want to force on the internet" and I was right.

This list of rights with a few modifications would be a good place to start for a list of restrictions the governments of the world should have to obey. I'd prefer they go even further but if we had at least this I'd be pretty happy.

Why do people care so much about whether Google is showing you ads about the shoes you just searched for, and care so little about the NSA collecting the information of every call and text you make?
However, neither of them is fully transparent or autoconfigurable, especially for users that roam among networks. Local DNS resolver, while not 100% bulletproof, did the job acceptably.
Also for those of you doing OOP looking to try something different:

Java/C++ -> Rust:
It will feel familiar to you with its C style syntax and multi-statement function bodies. It takes the best parts of many different paradigms, and marries them in a very coherent way. It's performant, has incredible tooling (cargo, rustup), and the community is great.

Python/Ruby -> Elixir:
Elixir has the Phoenix framework, great support for web, and supports massive concurrency using the Actor model. Jose did a great job cleaning up the Erlang syntax, and it's gradual typing and heavy use of macros will feel immediately familiar to you.
Interesting idea. I started wondering what kind of experts I'd like to talk with. Didn't really come up with anything as I feel I could just google it so why bother people. Hmm ok yeah if I had some specific problem like starting a company I could definitely use some advice. Or change careers. Or move into another country. Anyway, great idea. Hope to see it work!
The purchaser will justly pay more. Under the current system, the US tax payer pays for it.
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That is disgraceful behaviour.

I guess bottled water then should be considered free since it's significantly healthier than drinking any else.

Or maybe my laptop should be considered free since it's used to earn money.
That's not how tips in the US work. In the US, tips are simply shifting employer responsibility for their employees to the customer. If you are in the US, tip or avoid business that utilizing tipping.
Those aren't legal in California
"may still be relevant" -> they're still relevant and you should probably known or inform yourself on this sort of thing before opining.

Besides that, there is an awful lot of literature that you must be unable of reading if you find any reference to historical norms of past times to be offputting, which is incredibly dangerous. What do you think would have happened to human progress if muslim or renaissance christian scholars felt like you about the texts from classical antiquity that they learnt so much from?
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As haxton says: a) go-get (fixable), b) didn't know (unfixable), c) fun (working as intended) :)
OK, but a great many traffic situations are not relevant here. Only one is.

This proposes to replace/augment traffic lights with radio transceivers and in-vehicle displays. What's different about how motorcyclists interact with traffic lights? Isn't it just stop on red and go on green like for any other vehicle?
See my comment above, unless there are changes in all sorts of areas, "right to repair" will only have partial success because there will still be no incentive to make products that are repairable, making the cost of repair more than the cost of just replacing.
Depends on your definiton of bad, I suppose. Care to state what you think is bad? You linked to google maps, from which I can draw a million conclusions, none of them worth devoting effort to responding to without clarification.
TCO isn't nonsense.

Because they aren't comparing to the TCO of other automobiles, they have to adjust the sticker price to help buyers consider the TCO.
A coffee chat is a brief interaction between two people who don't know each other. If you like the other person, you can stay in touch. But we are very much focused on frequently connecting you with new people for new topics. People have new questions all the time – I think that's why we didn't face "the Homejoy issue" yet.
Thank god in most places in the world that kind of disruption is illegal.
It would be a bit more compelling if the articles the author referenced to support his claim that non-competes are everywhere were not all written by him.

It makes me wonder, are these common scenarios, or is the author on a crusade and has found some rare instances of it happening that he is blowing out of proportion?
I see this website everywhere I go lol
“War Is a Racket”
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Active Record should be considered an anti-pattern and is definitely in violation of single responsibility at the least.

Myself, I wouldn't even put any business logic in the User object, except maybe representational logic (e.g. have a couple of helper methods that return multiple representation of the same piece of data).

One of the best things to do is separate behavior from data in the first place, which feels kind anti-OO philosophy, but is definitely easier to reason about and work with.
Rent it out while you wait for the area to improve. Or hold it and wait.

Or, if local zoning doesn't block it, see if you can rent it out as commercial.
Numbers are even better in Canada where we have cheap hydro power and tax the shit out of gasoline.
My 2007 UK contract contained a non-compete clause. Actually, this was in the confidentiality and IP assignment agreement, which was separate from the main employment contract, and as it happened I only ever signed the latter.

But you are right about "worse legalese": in 2017 I came back as a temp, and was asked to sign an agreement containing an clause asserting I was authorized to receive materials subject to ITAR. I pointed out that only Americans (citizens or permanent residents) are so authorized, and that as I was not American I could therefore not sign it. I proposed striking the offending assertion and was told that I could not start until I signed the unmodified agreement. Apparently every other UK TVC had signed this without objection.

Eventually, though contacts inside Google, I managed to get them to see sense and issue a version of the document I could sign, but this took several weeks. Mind-bogglingly, when I returned as a temp this year my start was again delayed for several weeks for exactly the same reason.
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The first statement is a bit unfair. Square is pretty generic now, but of course a one size fits all solution isn't going to cut it for every case. I don't think that is a negative thing to ignore smaller markets that aren't as profitable if they dedicate tens/hundreds of millions of dollars towards these niche markets.

You misunderstand what strengths Square and Stripe both have. Stripe is a pure API/SDK that integrates with third-parties for everything other than payments.

Square has all those "third-parties" services bundled in to make it a much smoother experience for merchants. Payroll? Analytics? Dashboard? Everything is right there for you at Square. Stripe? They just link you to a bunch of third party sources.

Ultimately it boils down to: Stripe is geared towards more tech-savvy customers or those who can afford development costs for all these custom integrations + working with 3rd parties. Square is geared towards people who want it all in one ecosystem and don't need a lot of customization.

Stripe won't "eat" Square's lunch when it comes down to the base use-case of a simple merchant wanting an easy onboarding experience and taking payments. Stripe is anything but that. And for larger merchants you have to worry about what third-party services you integrate with Stripe - what if one of them goes under? Switching third-party services might be a huge pain. You don't have to worry about that with Square. Not to mention that first-party services always are better than third-party services. Square can always come up with better services to offer its customers because it has access to all the data. Third-party services are limited to what they can get via an API.

And as of right now, Square is actually beating Stripe on the SDK game with the release of ReaderSDK.
It's true that the programming model allows that, but underneath all threads within the warp will execute the same instructions. However if there is a branch, some threads can be predicated so their instructions have no effect. This is called warp divergence and can become a performance issue. If possible branch only on threadidx using multiples of the warp size. There's a cool slide deck on implementing a parallel sum algorithm that explains this really well.
FYI: zsh's autocorrection is fairly good.
I was specifically addressing their claims of disrupting the buying process. Under that criteria, ending price obfuscation (especially the doc fee) should be table stakes. As for the gas savings, it wouldn't be bad at all if they trumpeted the net cost after 5 years and clearly demonstrated the savings, but they lead with a made up price that no one will be paying. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I always wondered were he would go after Google, he was at Google for quite a while.
You're right, they're including a $2,500 California rebate.
If I had to guess, probably the dilapidated homes and streets covered in trash.
My current apartment building was built in the 1960s and has flat roofs. I'm on the top floor and have had maintenance fix a leak in my bathroom ceiling like 3 times and it keeps coming back.
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It looks like there is an opportunity to reduce the taxes owned on the initial capital gain as well as avoid all taxes on the additional capital gain if held long enough.