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This is exactly why robots are so expensive. Let's take a simpler example. Let's say you want sun tracking on a solar power installation. You could of course use mechanical linkages, or individual motors, or a combination. This is what's done now, and it's actually a decent part of the cost (so much it's often not done, or people do ridiculous things, like building a 10x10 meter solar panel so you only have to have one huge tracker).

Think about a robot going around that can aim a single solar panel to the sun in 30 seconds. That robot can do 120 aims per hour, and can keep ~400 solar panels at 96%+ efficiency by going around constantly. A collection of such robots provides redundancy (like humans do, if you've got more than one).

Such a solar tracker costs ~$200 at scale per solar panel. Mechanical solutions are cheaper up front, but you'll be fixing them weekly. So a robot that can do this can sell for ~$50000 and be profitable from day 1 (because it replaces capital expenditure). There'll be way less to fix and you can probably just take the robot back to the factory while providing a replacement onsite, which would be a fantasy with the motor based solution. Or you could have N+2 or higher redundancy for large sites and come by for robot replacements once a year providing constant coverage essentially free.

The same with your kitchen. Having a general capable robot can use a lot of equipment to accomplish a great many tasks. Such a robot even means that the difference between a cheap and an expensive, say, dishwasher, disappears to an extent. The most expensive dishwasher won't match the comfort of a cheap one + a robot, and the same is true for all other appliances.

Given that how much is it allowed to cost ? 5000$ seems like a lower bound. I'd be willing to pay that, which usually means others are willing to pay 100x that, even if that seems a bit much (in the West though, perhaps not as much).
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We have a few in the city where I live (Belgium).
I think it's a quite great idea - the ones I know are located near schools as well which might help children pick up an interesting book.
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Another concern should be the Fukushima disaster, close to japans biggest teacultivation areas.
Those sculptures look kitschy and childish when painted.

Perhaps that's partly because painting techniques have advanced a lot since the ancient Greeks, while realistic figure sculpting hasn't changed that much?

I assume they went for that style of painting because it was historically authentic? Presumably they don't want to decorate a 50 BC statue with 1750 AD painting techniques.
Yes, do not take vitamin D unless under the direction of a doctor. As a fat-soluble vitamin, it's not super difficult to poison yourself with it.
Thanks for the link, it is an excellently written article, which manages to poke fun at Arabic's various weird quirks, and convey author's enthusiasm about how cool the language is, both at the same time. Very good read!
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It reminds me of Czech, where a fixed list of prefixes can be used to modify the meaning of any verb, with very creative possibilities!

https://mluvtecesky.net/en/grammar/prefixes
many people have poor impulse control

Yes and no. I expect that most people’s impulse control is actually OK, in the absence of continuous advertising i.e. an obesogenic environment. Snack companies spend literally billions to psychologically profile and manipulate their customers...
That is true but not the point.

You wrote '[...] rightfully so' which I have to object clearly.
Far too much for this to ever be a solution for 99.999% of web users, who wouldn't have the slightest idea what that even means.

A web that by default preys maliciously on naïve users, even if the tiny technically-savvy minority can work around it, is not an acceptable outcome.
There's more to at-will employment than just "unemployment kinda sucks."

At-will employment is the reason there's no real workers' rights in the US. If the employer can fire you at any time on a whim and for no reason, it becomes impossible to enforce any other labor protection laws, from discrimination on down.

Sure it was illegal for my employer to fire me from my job at a thrift shop in the States after I got injured on the job doing work I shouldn't legally have been expected to do alone. So they just found another excuse and fired me anyway (in this case, because I took a day off to mourn my dying father. Remember what I said about America?).

This happens over and over, with racial, gender, disability discrimination, labor violations, and on and on. There's no real way to enforce the law when there's a giant loophole around it, and who do you think has more money to win a labor suit? The unemployed person, or the company who fired them?

There's also the pressure and the power imbalance it creates. If my employer can fire me whenever they want for no reason, then I have basically no clout at all on the job. I'm under relentless pressure to just do whatever I'm told, because if I don't, then I'm out on my ass in a day. You make a normally small mistake on a day when the boss is in a bad mood? Disagree with the wrong manager? Decide to stand up when the corporation wants you to do something unethical, or even illegal?

Tough luck. Better hit the dole queue tomorrow.

It creates a constant, oppressive pressure on employees, because you will never have job security. You are always one bad day or one wrong move away from the unemployment line.

And let's face it, the same kind of voters and politicians who say things like you do, are the same ones that aren't gonna be in a hurry to raise the unemployment benefit to actually fit the cost of living. The last time I lost my job in Finland I nearly wound up homeless (surprise! I was on the very probationary period the gov't wants to extend indefinitely, and got let go along with all the other new hires, so my startup could cook the books for the VCs). Helsinki benefits haven't been adjusted for cost of living since the 70s, and if you think the same government looking to toss more people out on the street is gonna be in a hurry to fix that, well then I have some very interesting cryptocurrency investments I'd love to show you.

Part of having a strong safety net is employees having the security not to need it all the time. If anyone can just shit-can people for something as simple as fudging the budget for next quarter, then unemployment costs rise, and the response to that has consistently been to cut benefits, not raise them.

For all the system is imperfect here, Finns need to understand just how good they have it already, and stop supporting people who want to drag us down to the Americans' level just to make a few more euros.
I find it interesting that there seem to be things called out as features which conflict:

1. Recording all requests in a database - feels like only very low value targets could do this. Exposing a database record of requests within the same software stack as your gateway (ie. First line of defense sort of space) feels like its immediately risky. This is why large enterprises tend to rely on their backends to do full white box auditable records keeping but as you move closer to the edge the amount of information stored gets stripped back until you should really only have correlation ID's and time stamps which should be getting shifted off-box in a hurry so they can be ingested internally.
2. Guaranteed immutability of requests which is specifically called out as useful to financial institutions. While I won't deny this is probably a nice thing to have, its also really only valuable in reducing load on your systems of record by removing duplicate requests or refiring them only as needed. As mentioned above, its the core systems of an enterprise like a bank that will be doing all the record keeping. So it will likely also be this core system that is in charge or recognising and rejecting duplicate transactions, otherwise you're throwing a lot of really important decision making about what requests those core systems should see a long way away from those core systems, meaning you are almost definitionally less able to make a sensible decision about if that request should be sent again or not. But then again, you're also that much closer to the client application so might be able to pick a lot up from context that your systems ot record would be oblivious to.

I'm not really sure I can see perfectly clearly where this particular gateway would sit in the ecosystem...
Ted started off great and has turned into a complete joke. Got the money? Come and talk. Have a controversial idea - sure, it's worth spreading. I've come to accept TED as entertainment more so than anything factual. If facts are there, they have to be checked.
Here's a story on the first long distance car driver (a woman !). Read it, because you'll realize just how bad it must have been:

https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/Augus...

That was a rigid tricicle. No tires. Oh, and if you don't know how to make brakes out of old shoes, no brakes, or at least not for long.
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I don't care. I have money. I want a service. They can't provide it. This means they do not get to complain that my six figure buying power chooses a city.
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Dutch and Afrikaans is probably in the top three most similar language pairs among Indo-European languages along with Spanish-Portuguese-Italian (a three way) and Danish-Norwegian bokmål. The fact that people switch to English is more a reflection of how good English language education is than the difference between the languages. If you are in Italy and you speak Spanish and English you’ll get more benefit from your Spanish outside tourist traps.
Same here, except I bought a precision 5530, after 12 years on Mac (2 MBP, then a MBA). It’s been a few months and I like it, I don’t regret it. I don’t mind Windows 10 at all, it feels a bit more customizable than MacOS actually. I do find the way it puts all the files that makes an app work all over the place. But a lot of people are experts in this.
My Linux need is limited so I run the Ubuntu installed from the Microsoft App Store. Rest of my time is splitted between Firefox, Conda and Office. I am not doing any serious CAD, so I didn’t really need the Quadro or the 4K screen, but I have none of the problems that some are complaining about the XPS and it just looks so great. Onyx case also!
As an event, yes. As an everyday thing, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_New_York_City_smog

And I have never seen this in the USA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmryr65iTwM

It is all so unnecessary. Meanwhile, our elites will not abide a blow to their quarterly earnings for anyone, so the formula is: make money polluting China, go live in Canada; make money polluting India, go live in the USA.
True, but that makes it all the more weird that they'd delete them in the first place. It's like they wanted to remove any evidence they were involved at all.

The only remaining indication is the domain, and their iOS app that's still up on the App Store.
An implementation of zip tree insertion and deletion is in the paper. concurrent zip trees is another matter. I don't know why you can't view something that Princeton charges $5 for, but in any case I think you would find the thesis disappointing ... the arxiv paper says "The third author developed a preliminary, lock-based implementation of concurrent zip trees in his senior thesis [12]. We are currently developing a non-blocking implementation." -- I would wait for the latter.
This makes me happy. While I am not anti-police... I feel like there is far far FAR too much abuse of power going on.
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I work in a transplant hospital ( for liver and other organs ) and we see A LOT of people with liver damage from suplements ( green tea, valerian root, etc ) I would recommend against any supplements unless you clear them with your doctor, some are ok like VitD ( in the correct dosage ) others are downright dangerous.
The person I was responding to was expressing gratitude at having the opportunity to earn 150% ones normal wage per hour. My point is that it’s not enough to offset the opportunity cost. If anything, employers should be discourage from asking for overtime pay at all, and make it 10x regular pay or something instead of 1.5x so that people can enjoy a better work life balance.
Most of EC2 and S3 product development happened in South Africa. The original technical lead for AWS was South African, and was about to move back from Seattle after the original AWS pitch meeting. Bezos liked the idea so much that he let him develop the product in South Africa.
even HTML cannot communicate with JS, you are talking about collective Web page behaviour running in JS/CSS/HTML/Browser. CSS is standalone, it doesn't have logical brain. It don't think. That is part of JS. I don't agree with your idea, if we add logic to all HTML and CSS then it is like batman doing killing.
This is not great reporting by the BBC. Most grievously, as others have mentioned, they don't mention the dosages this guy was taking.

The important point to grasp behind all this concern over "supplements" is that there's no such thing as a supplement. Everything that's not a food is a drug. If something is not part of a human diet somewhere - i.e. if it's been extracted and refined significantly - then it's a drug. (Does that mean you regulate supplements? No, because then you end up in ridiculous situations like banning high doses of water-soluble B vitamins. Banning certain brands and formulations is sometimes appropriate.)

Drugs have a dose-response curve, a median lethal dose, and all the rest. People taking "supplements" (taking them seriously, beyond taking a common-or-garden multivitamin you can pick up anywhere) should be aware of this and understand the risks.

"Natural" doesn't mean safe. Polio is natural.

Not all sets of genetics tolerate all "supplements" at recommended dosages.

In vitro is not in vivo.

Animal studies are not human studies.

I got into nutrition and supplementation through bodybuilding, and within that community the knowledge that things you put in your body can hurt you, do your homework is fairly widespread and well passed-on. Unfortunately that perspective hasn't really permeated broader fitness culture.

I think the attitude of "have this problem, take this pill" (without regard for risks or better options) is mostly at fault here. I'd argue corporate pharmaceutical companies have some culpability here - "ask your doctor if X is right for you" - or don't, and just bloody do some cardio or something.

This article is only interesting if you still conflate "green tea" with "natural" and "natural" with "safe".
I've been trying to read the HTTP2 spec and I can't figure out whether it's allowable to return or modify the HTTP(2) status code in a trailer instead of in the header.

After some re-readings, I decided it wasn't allowed.

But then, gRPC definitely needs to be able to signal an error even after it has already streamed data. So gRPC would need to use some end-of-connection message, like a trailer.
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Thank you for the feedback. Copy writing is really hard and I will work on getting the proper details upfront.
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In terms of maximising the metric of "getting the servers closest to the maximum number of end-users with the longest current ping-times" then a region in Johannesburg seems to make more sense - it's a bigger metropolitan area than Cape Town, and is closer to points north of South Africa.

However

1) Johannesburg is inland, the internet backbone cables land at the coast e.g. at Cape Town. ( https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ - Cape Town is at the South-West-most point where all those cables come in )

2) AWS already has an operation in Cape Town.
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I always figure if I should take something my doctor will just prescribe it
Einstien did his Nobel prize winning work (the photoelectric effect) very early in life, and then went on to continually make big successes. If he had started out spinning his wheels he would have had plenty of time to switch.
That doesn't mean there is no dosing suggestion on the packet.
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It's possible they don't mean hardware, but rather Ubuntu does not save the settings properly. I have had that issue with the Unity WM
CSS and HTML will usually afford a specific approach. Being a web developer is knowing what these approaches are, and to know when stuff might get "not nice". So when you see a graphic designer using multiline text blocks with elided text in their design layouts, you know to raise a red flag and get that removed.

Personally, I've not found collapsing margins a huge issue either way. It's just the way it is. There's 10 billion ways to add distance between two elements in the browser, so pick a solution and go with it.
Also there is a poor support in software, for example in console tools: [1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/a0e49e1c65370ba11c17
I’m not surprised Turkish is simpler. It was “reformed” so much after the foundation of the republic that modern Turks can’t understand Ottoman Turkish. It was written in Arabic script and had a great, great many Arabic and Persian words.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language

> Owing to this sudden change in the language, older and younger people in Turkey started to differ in their vocabularies. While the generations born before the 1940s tend to use the older terms of Arabic or Persian origin, the younger generations favor new expressions. It is considered particularly ironic that Atatürk himself, in his lengthy speech to the new Parliament in 1927, used a style of Ottoman which sounded so alien to later listeners that it had to be "translated" three times into modern Turkish: first in 1963, again in 1986, and most recently in 1995.
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I haven't observed this from right wing media, but from his own twitter channel.

I don't understand this. Corporations are not allowed to move back and forth between borders at the drop of a hat- you have to satisfy legal obligations to be recognized as a corporation and hire people in any nation. Legal immigrants have also have to wait in a queue and satisfy formalities. The analogy just breaks down for illegal immigrants who are neither interested in following laws or awaiting their turn. So national borders are not creating any injustice.

Please note that he wore that T-shirt at a "May-day" parade in a video published on his own twitter channel. It is rather "nice" of you to re-frame his stance that it was in support of a "Rap Group", but you and I both know that certainly wasn't the case.
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[0] looks like a solved issue. What would you say is missing?
Above, a commenter makes a distinction between negative and null result, saying that null results are those without any statistically significant conclusion (neither negative nor positive). Those don't get published, the BSM papers usually rule out parts of parameter space which makes them negative results.
The 100 Mbps up and down mentioned is USD 85 per month at the current R 14.45 to the dollar in Johannesburg itself.

However, outside the urban areas internet is slower and there is not fibre yet. Cellphone coverage is generally good. For some "inexplicable" reason, however, 1GB cellphone data has been stuck at R 149 for over 5 years now...
There's no hard line between dialects and languages. As they say, "language is a dialect with an army".
> given the nature of how it's increasing space, when and why, and when it will need to happen again

This is really rather straightforward. The whole point of the algorithm is to randomly distribute the height of the inserted node such that half the nodes are leaves (height 0), 1/4 have height 1, 1/8 have height 2, etc. Restructuring is more expensive the larger the height, but the frequency of restructuring decreases exponentially with respect to the cost of doing it. Net result: O(1) for restructuring, + O(lg n) to find the insertion point (as is necessarily true for any binary search tree, else we would have a way to do an O(n) sort).
It has to do with material wealth values as well. Those pigments were far more expensive then and possibly gathered from around the world. Apparently the same thing happened with fashion in the UK at very least - colorful men's fashion when it was expensive but after it became cheap and widespread it was considered gauche.
Agree its unethical to not disclose but if thats your business model I guess you don't care.

In the landlord example my argument is that the landlord is being unethical, locks should be changed.
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Does it preserves insertion order ?
Wow that's so racist. Racism of low expectations. Only racists are amazed when black people do "novel" things. When does a black man just get to be a man?
Did not know this—even though I knew Cape Town had a AWS team.
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French can come in very handy in many places in Africa, in the same vein as Spanish is in South and Central America.
I guess this change by the Sipilä government could be fine in isolation. But the fact is that the same government has done/is pushing for cuts to the social safety net, unemployment benefits, schooling, health care etc at the same time.
I agree it's the same as in piracy, and I do the exact same there - pay for what I can, download the rest.

Regarding the bandwidth costs, those are absolutely negligible, since the methods for bypassing the paywalls either only fetch the text (e.g. http://outline.com) or cache it on other servers (e.g. http://archive.is).

It is definitively not what they wish, but not complying with someone's wishes is not harming them.

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On that last point, while I don't take my moral code from the law, I note that it agrees with me; for example, even if you have a contract with a guy to build your house, and you say your want a certain brand of pipes, but he ends up using another, you're not entitled to anything. Unfulfilled wishes are not harms.
Thank you. I almost puked when I realized what that site is communicating.

And then it dawned on me, that factory farming is essentially this but for chicken.
Thanks for mentioning GitLab. You can find more information about Auto Devops and creating Kubernetes clusters from withing GitLab at this doc https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/quick_start_gui...
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At least with KDE/Plasma most of this can actually be done in a UI. I'm an Arch Linux user myself and I haven't hand edited an Xorg configuration file in at least 3 years.
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Isn't that the entire point of Apple Pay?
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