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It was amazingly profitable (tax dollar wise) to the previous conservative government ("BC liberals" are a conservative party) so they of course made it as smooth and as easy as possible to launder money in BC through real estate purchases.
Casinos are more complex. I think there is a combination of how fast things go with law enforcement response time (bureaucracy can be very slow, especially on "white collar" crime - especially when the bureaucrats have no comprehension of how big the problem is or could be)

I left Vancouver because this isn't going to end well - too much infrastructure depends on the laundering to continue, but the laundering is making it unreasonably expensive to live there.

Oh, and no I don't blame any particular other country. I strongly suspect a lot of it is income displacement to avoid taxes ... a move only particularly wealthy can do. It's not hard to find some arbitrary person who needs it somewhere, pay them to hide the trail and have them represent - or one of their agents - fronting as a student or the like. Much easier if they're not from the same country who this scam is being done to, or from, I'd think.
(but that's pure conjecture on my part. See CBC radio documentary "Sold!" though for a much better precis).
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Yes, that's quite right.
the important thing is that it doesn't matter what the parent assumed.

whether the actual time is 10 minutes or 100 years, knowing that somebody else solved one recently doesn't speed up your time to find one
> NO. Harm reduction in Vacouver at INSITE has basically done nothing. The area around the clinic is a thriving cesspool, worse than it ever was.

Expecting one program at one location to stop the entire problem is expecting a lot. The real question that needs to be answered is: Is it better to have the program or not? Other than space and a few staff, it can't be expensive to operate, especially when scaled out.

> The most obvious benefit is that users can get access to clean up programs etc. but there doesn't seem to be evidence that is materially working.

Indeed, the OnSite program is available in the same location. What better place to reach users than a program they'll come to everyday.

There's plenty of evidence that opiate dependence treatment works, and is cost-effective: reduced HIV infections (it's not necessarily the opiates themselves that kill you), reduced property crime, reduced deaths from overdose.

> Vancouver has an entire industry of drug related 'harm reduction' approaches - and yet, the problems continue to thrive. It would seem those policies haven't made a dent, and there might be better ways to spend that money to solve the problem.

But would the problem be worse without the current programs?

"We've spent all this money on health care and people are still dying, shutdown the hospitals!"

Anyways, I'd argue any worsening is triggered by the new availability of potent and cheap opioids that people can't dilute properly.
I don't agree they have lower mass. My Xootr push scooter is only a few pounds lighter than my Xootr folding bike (which is not particularly light for a bike), but it is easily 15 lbs lighter than a Lime electric scooter.

I also don't agree "You can very quickly take the force out of an impending collision with a scooter, compared to a bike". At least, all the scooters I have ridden have worse braking than a bike and really hard braking is destabilizing as you have to push on the bars to resist tilting forwards.

Your numbers regarding average speeds for bikes "a bike which has a fast commuter speed of 30mph" and "Average commuter speed for a bike is 20mph" are fanciful. 30 mph is a high speed for racing cyclists in a pace line. 20 mph is a high speed for a very fit cyclist in a hurry. Typical cyclists average under 15 mph. I'd imagine commuters trying not to arrive all sweaty at work restrain themselves even from this.

So I suspect your down votes are earned.

For what it's worth, I think the scooters will be great once we figure out how to accommodate them. I personally think bikes are more sensible overall, but people like the scooters and anything that gets people out of cars is a win.
The First Amendment isn't free speech. It secures your right to free speech, but the spirit of free speech has nothing to do with any government. Every government should facilitate people's right to free speech, not just protect them from retaliation from the government.
Yep I also run into this issue.
I once was shadowing a deliver driver in a suburban neighborhood. We were both in high viz and I stayed in the car for this delivery. The guy rang the bell and no one answered so he followed standard process and looked for a secure location to reduce the chance of theft when he left the package unattended. He was looking for just a few seconds when a neighbor came up to hassle him, ask him what he was doing and accused him of wanting to rob the place. While wearing a hi-viz vest. Racists will see whatever they want to see. He could have been wearing a flashing hard hat too and I'm sure the neighbor still would have harassed him.
The author mentions this in the first comment.

> As I couldn't find any HackerNews PWA which allowed me to save items for reading them later, I decided to create my own. I'm aware that it has some flaws (Comments & Ask HN items are not working right now), but I'll add more features if people are interested.
Tech stack: React.js, styled-components, redux, redux-offline and HN Firebase API
The branch employees were effectively forced to cheat because that was the only way to meet their sales goals and keep their jobs. The executives knew this, but chose to look the other way.
Nope, Its the same in Germany too.
a very late bus grabs everyone from each stop, so the next bus ends up early because it skips a bunch of less popular stops
> when I enter something, I expect to see what other people search for

That's never been the point, though it's sometimes been an implementation method because it's easy: the point is to provide a useful guess of what you might be searching for.

Some search engines do provide tools for exploring patterns of other people's searches, but recommendation systems have never been that except as a matter of leaky implementation details.
> the US government

Actually, ICANN. But it's still a single entity at the top. And IIRC they don't register names by themselves.

Registrars are not a monopoly, though. I've read that in theory, you can even become one for yourself: https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/register-with-icann-san...
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Which model scooter did you get and how has it worked out so far?
A few years ago I was really into the idea of starting a lifestyle business and began listening to a few podcasts about this. All of the podcasts I listened to ended up creating some sort of business related to podcasting.
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Having worked at IBM for 10 years, this is what I have come to know how IBM operates top-down:

1. To make significant profits, we need to sell services on top of our software products (this is essentially GBS and their "strong" sales people)

2. To make very good profits, we need to make highly customizable software (for example AI and BI offerings).

3. To make even more profit we need to make sure the software is tuned to the hardware we make.

If one of those weakens the entire IBM portfolio and profits weaken dramatically.

Here's problems in last 7 years tho:
1. People moving to the cloud so the hardware business flatlines.
2. Because people moved to the cloud they found replacements to IBM software.
3. At the end of the day IBM is forced to deliver professional services on top of other companies' software and hardware (and services employees are not cheap).

At some point the IBM execs must have had an epiphany that their AI offerings don't sell because they don't have a platform that sells other commodity cloud services on top of which AI components can be sold as high-priced addons.

So thus IBM decided to do what it does best --- take control of the entire stack.

With this acquisition IBM has the potential to become a next gen. cloud vendor. For example IBM has been trying to sell Bluemix as a hybrid PaaS/IaaS but haven't been very successful. The engineering team in Bluemix is weak and one way to really up the ante is getting access to top talent in the industry to do this (CoreOS team, Openshift.io team, linux kernel devs, distributed storage devs).
> the Bitcoin network, while being widely derided for its energy use, it is in fact using less electricity than the major credit card networks

Isn't this kind of like comparing a moped to a big rig in terms of transaction rate?
I’m glad I live in east Asia. Busses and trains are almost never late
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In Australia's case there is little need for presenting ID.

An Australian polling booth has a copy of the electoral roll, with names and addresses (homeless people can enroll with name only). This roll is marked when you vote, and then the roll is analysed afterwards. Attempting to stuff the ballot box by impersonating someone will show up as duplicate marks on the roll. You won't get far with impersonating random people as voting is compulsory in most elections so duplicates will quickly happen. You could vote twice if guaranteed in advance that someone wasn't going to vote, but at best you will get only a small number of extra votes that way.

The aim with an election isn't necessarily to outright prevent cheating, but to prevent undetected cheating. Hence why ID isn't so crucial (at least in Australia).
You know, if you really think about it, the banks were victimized by these cunning idiots.
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> being a foreigner in America (USA or Canada) is pretty easy compared to being one in China

When I moved to the US from Canada, the banks couldn't access my credit file in Canada -- even though they use the same fucking credit bureaus in both countries! I had to give AT&T $500 cash just to get a cell phone account, and another $500 cash so my wife could have an account too... even though we had already bought our iPhones in cash -- we had no debt with AT&T. They literally needed a $500 deposit in case we ran up some crazy bill with long distance calling (text and data were unlimited).

With a lot of work, we were finally able to get a mortgage even though we were putting about 45% down. The bank issued us kind of trail credit card that they issue all immigrants. I ran into another consultant at a client site and we had lunch together. He was fresh off the boat from India and when he pulled out his credit card we laughed because I held up the same immigrant Visa card. Easier than China, ya... but it's pretty silly here too. How equifax here can't get my stellar credit history from equifax Canada blows my mind.
I regularly travel to Jakarta - and I try to avoid the low-cost Indonesian airlines like Lion Air because of their very poor safety record. For example, AirAsia didn't think it needed to give its pilots upset recovery training until flight 8501 crashed:

In the wake of the Air France crash, the [Australian] Civil Aviation Safety Authority required that pilots receive upset recovery training, although it was long a standard practice at Australian airlines. The AirAsia Indonesia crash report said Indonesia's Director General of Civil Aviation has no such requirement and neither of the pilots were trained in upset recovery on an A320.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/why-the-airasia-cr...
Try adaptive pacing instead of GET, you’ll get much better results. Read Tom Kindlon, et al’s work on debunking GET. I can provide links, to papers etc if anyone wants them.

Side note: I have had ME/CFS since 2003, (partially bed bound and mostly housebound, raising 3 kids with my wife who now is also diagnosed) when it knocked me out of my USAF Reservist and my systems engineering careers. I helped admin PhoenixRising.me (a charity & forums for ME/CFS patients and allies) for many years.

If anyone has any questions about ME/CFS (aka SEIDs) or coping with it, feel free to ask.

Edit: Please follow and read some Jen Brea’s work on twitter: https://twitter.com/jenbrea/ and please try to watch (Sundance award winning!) “unrest” by @jenbrea .
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Right, it's worse. Twitter has selectively been enforcing its ToS for years. How is removing hate speech conductive to anything but hiding the issue. Let people moderate their own feeds, and don't make people rely on archiving services to see politically significant information like a terrorist's social media history.
> Regarding the environmental impact of the Bitcoin network, while being widely derided for its energy use, it is in fact using less electricity than the major credit card networks. It is also using less energy than global gold mining. There are ways to reduce consumption should a consensus accept the tradeoffs.

That's not the point. The issue is with its growth trajectory.

Setting aside how little Bitcoin network can handle vs. major credit cards per unit of energy used, the "mainstream" financial system treats energy use as waste that has to be minimized. Per constant number of players, it is expected to stay stable or even decrease. Bitcoin treats energy use as a security feature, and is designed up front to grow it continuously. Per constant number of players, it'll still grow fast as the difficulty of mining is increased. Even with growing populations, mainstream system seems at worst O(n log n), and Bitcoin is definitely faster[0].

Another thing is - the mainstream financial system already works, and does its job well. Bitcoin is seen as a way for some mix of greedy and politically fringe types to make money quick, exploiting cheap electricity.

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[0] - I'm giving a tentative O(n^2) here, I have a feeling it might be faster, but didn't check it. I'd love if someone could list here the sources of growth of energy usage in Bitcoin network.
If you think "serverless" is not confusing, then you have lost the vocabulary to even describe apps that run truly without servers: Photoshop, Word, tons of games, etc.

By your "wireless" analogy I think you view these apps to be absurd impossibilities, like electronics without wires.

This distinction is important. SimCity 5 gratuitously required the user to be constantly online, talking to some server. I mean obviously - there has to be a server somewhere, right?

No, there does not!! We need to retain the ability to talk about apps that do not need ANY server, and "serverless" muddies that crucial distinction.
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Previously:

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Verge: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/24/17607136/t...
Thank you for the extensive list, I formatted it for you [1].

Next time, use double new-lines to separate each line.

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> Gravity alone is unlikely to be able to accelerate a plane like that in such a short time

Yeah, a quick (and very elementary) back-of-the-envelope energy calculation shows that gravity alone couldn't achieve that speed. [SEE EDIT]

> Were the pilots desperately trying to go up, not knowing which way was up?

We'll have to wait and see, but it was morning, and I think I heard that there was weather in the vicinity of the crash but not at its actual location.

EDIT: That calculation was wrong. The aircraft had more energy at 5475 ft than it did at 3200, 7.73 seconds before the last data point.
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Was blacklisted you mean.

From the article: "Established in 1999, it has had issues of safety and poor management in the past and was banned from flying into European airspace until 2016."
According to the article, this is in large part for security, and a little bit for speed, not for size.
Again... you're injecting some sort of belief that they are manipulating markets and picking winners and losers when there is no such evidence of either of those statements being true including none in the article itself. You're stating that that punishing an organization for fraud is manipulating the market. It seems that you're cloaking that odd argument under the 'behind closed doors' and 'outside of written rules' aspect when they are not connected in any way. One has been created out of whole cloth and the other might actually be pretty valid. You're also hand-wavingly saying 'most other economists' don't agree with that organization policing fraud which multiple others have said (and myself) doesn't seem accurate while not providing any evidence that economists believe that. I'm not sure why you're taking this stance honestly as you're not giving any proof or evidence for any of it.
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I'm not persuaded that finding "plenty of higher speed bike crashes on youtube with no fatalities" equates to "safe".
To the points;

2) Rates are on the rise, though its only fair if its also recognised the absolute level is historically low. And most likely these rates have been a significant variable creating share market and property asset bubble many markets and sectors are in right now. And this bubble has reasonable odds of creating another serious debt problem. Time will tell.

3) Repayments are at historic levels relative to the economy. This doesn't make it OK IMOP as the total load is dangerous in that what happens if interest rates rise? And I'm sure here many people will believe 'US controls the rates' but then this comes with additional flow on problems including but not limited to; 1) Monetary policy is now weakened as one of the more influential economic management tools for future use 2) Risk is through the roof should the appetite for US treasuries drop 3) The cost of servicing and repaying this is getting dumped on future generations, which will limit future opportunity of the economy.

And to be clear, I'm not proclaiming US doom. The US has an amazingly strong and diverse economy. But to focus points that post-2008 has not changed the playing field, and not recognise the high risk game the US are playing with their economy seems unfair.
No, that's not what anyone, even the OP is saying. People were taking massive mortgages, far beyond their means, they were buying several houses renting them out. They were knowingly falsifying information they provided to the banks etc. etc..

Not all banks were doing dirty things, and not all people were doing things, but many banks were and so were many individuals, and so the rest of us pay the price.

This crisis is truly an American style crises - people in most other countries are hugely risk averse when it comes to this kind of stuff. Even buying cars on payments is a newer thing in some advanced countries ie Spain.

Not just attitudes though ... 'bankruptcy' is a survivable event for companies and individuals in America. Less so elsewhere.
and so even if the fisa courts said no, the data would still arrive
Wine seems basic and immature in comparison to WSL not the other way.
If you know a bit of math, you'll probably get a better understanding by just reading the first page of the paper[1] rather than reading this article.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02735
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The AF447 manuscripts suggest the pilot deliberately pulled nose up, unaware of the expected stall practice.
> Personally I don't think you should be allowed anywhere near ML, UNLESS you have that PHD in computer science

A lot of ML research is done by PhDs in other fields. I did research that focused on developing compact group invariant features (for neural networks) for predicting local atomic energies in materials science, and a few mathematicians I follow did work on developing convolutional neural networks that utilize Clebsch–Gordan coefficients to generalize the translational invariance to other symmetries.

On the contrary, a lot of CS machine learning research is heavily application focused (generate such-and-such new thing using a GAN). If anything, mathematicians are the ones who understand machine learning at the very deepest level of theory. This isn't to say there aren't many theory-focused CS presentations/publications; I'm just refuting your point that highly theoretical machine learning research is purely the domain of CS PhDs.
I'm beginning to see this in the 'Maker' community as well. Indie makers creating tools for an audience of indie makers.

Some of the tools are useful, most are derivative, but it's a funny little economy.
You might want to read up on your Aesop’s fables ;)
I appreciate the side project but it's very hard to read. It doesnt really show much anything either. I much prefer https://github.com/voormedia/rails-erd

Example: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/f705fefa37f808758adbfa8e5...
This is not the same concern you're expressing unfortunately. You're arguing elsewhere that the government punishing outright fraud is manipulating the market and choosing winners and losers. I see nothing about that at your link and nothing that defends your belief in that. He's saying that the fed and the government should step in and make decisions about trying to buoy the market, which is what you want them to do when the economy might go belly up so that people don't all lose their jobs and riot and starve. I do see that it's where you got the phrase 'government should pick winners and losers' from however but the context is vastly different than what the original article we're commenting on is about.
This is absolutely beautiful! My wish for a tool like this is to not have it in a web environment, but as a Jack-pluggable standalone program. Then it could be used for real music composition.

But anyway, this is a really nice little app!
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You also should show an error message when theres a problem with the schema. It says it doesnt understand "-1" as a default for an integer, which is obviously wrong. Firstly, thats a bug, but secondly it doesnt tell you when theres a problem with the file, it only shows a red X and doesnt even scroll there, so youre just left clicking the button 20 times because you think its broken.
I’ve heard good things about Jocko’s podcast. Do you have any specific episodes to recommend re: self-discipline, etc.?
All things considered -- and remember, these airlines are flying in poor countries where a lot of the infra for air traffic control, airports etc is not up to scratch -- AirAsia has a reasonable safety record: the only major crash suffered by the entire group (not just Indonesia AirAsia) was Flight 8501:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501

Last I checked, AA uses Lufthansa Technik for its maintenance, so there's good third-party oversight. You can't say the same for Lion Air, which seems to write off its planes on an alarmingly regular basis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air#Incidents_and_acciden...
At the moment, accumulating 51% of the Bitcoin network's hash rate is prohibitely expensive. An attacker would be better off just using that massive hash power to legitimately mine bitcoins. This is the game theory behind bitcoin mining.

Having said that, smaller PoW coins have been recently hit by 51% attacks, as renting the needed hash power for them is cheaper than the profits from selling the double spent coins.