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> It's just the server world moves slowly

THIS! I am not sure why people are expecting Epyc to take off like a rocket, it won't. Companies maintaining 24/7 hardware don't jump on new tech. I think Epyc will eventually take a good chunk of the market, but it will take a few years.

Also, if you are expanding an existing VMWare stack you can't mix CPU architecture and have HA. So unless you are building a new stack, then Epyc might not even be an option, even if the Admin might prefer Epyc.
I think the GP was not referring to the harm to bees as horrific, but to the harm done to our living environment by harming bees.
Tool shows main pros/cons of CA and SF props and lets you save and share votes
I believe the latter. IIRC, NLL is strictly more expressive than LL. I believe NLL can only shorten lifetimes, not extend them, by comparison.
I guess it depends, as the incentive structure differs. The VC is likely trying to squeeze some extra fees out for a different role he's fulfilling.

If I own 20% of a business worth $50m as a VC, and I run a $10m fund, then I will make 20% carry on the $10m exit. That's $2m in my personal pocket, pre-tax.

If I can facilitate a deal through a highly personal contact (i.e. close friend) where the company is sold to BigCo for $50m, and I can also charge 2% of the acquisition value to all investors (i.e. in line with what an investment bank or broker charges) then I pocket another $1m. So now I made $3m.

There is nothing inherently unethical about wearing two caps if you actually put a deal together -- whether that is raising capital (equity or debt) or facilitating something. Though in this case there MIGHT be a conflict of interest. But taking small percentage commissions is very common in business on certain transactions.
Ambulances don't come from the hospital. They are stationed a bit all over and listen for emergencies. They also listen on the police scanners and can get to an emergency before actually being requested.

The gas station right next to my house has EMT vehicles almost every night hanging out and waiting to interveene in the area.
> It is easy to forget nowadays how much fear of nuclear war there used to be always lurking in the background.

Not as good as your story, but I was walking home from school when the air-raid siren went off, sounding exactly as it does at the start of "Two Tribes". I was briefly very, very scared indeed, and very relieved to survive the next four minutes without being blown to atoms or fatally irradiated.
says the person who keeps buying products without optical audio ports.
I'm pretty happy with mine, but thanks for speaking for us all with your sweeping generalization.
Google matrix: fundamentals, applications and beyond (conference videos)
Physical paper voting wins no matter what.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
That's interesting. Do you have a link to a study stating this? I also thought nearsightedness increased dramatically mostly due to lack of outdoor time.
They had to compete against Intel.

It's a quite sane policy: if you want to sell to me, make sure I'm not locked in with you.
The article doesn't say why Denmark, Ireland and Sweden opposed, but from a referenced article [1]:

> Spearheaded by France, the plan has met resistance from countries such as Ireland and Sweden, which question the wisdom of the EU going it alone given the global nature of digital services.

First, not all services are digital, especially not Amazon packages.

Second, the "global nature" is a technological aspect. The corporations themselves are local to some jurisdiction, as are their clients.

This argument is similar to computing in the "Cloud": Technologically, the service is perhaps global, but the physical manifestation of it certainly isn't. That data center is located somewhere, and when it goes down, one is reminded of the limitations of the "global" aspect.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-05/eu-s-divi...
Ours have 72 cores. I meant they're a box full of SIMD rather than one SIMD unit. You need to take good advantage of the AVX512 -- or possibly the MCDRAM or fast on-chip MPI -- to make them worthwhile.
I don’t trust my TV enough to be on the network.
Instance based protocol polymorphism – Clojure – 1.10.0-beta5
When it comes to taxation, a central sovereign measure, every member has to agree. Although the EU itself is something sui generis (or colloqually supranational), certain areas demand unanimous votes, especially those that are inherent to a nation‘s sovereignty.
In this case its a tax on US technology companies.
Do you remember what you ran into with the multi-speaker delay? I managed to get it all working pretty nicely on my 2 speaker test.
The Science of Elections
The UK does this with rapid responder vehicles - ordinary cars outfitted with blue lights and a limited amount of first aid kit. Some NHS regions also use motorcycles, which would be very good for getting through traffic jams to an accident.
> This is becoming harder and harder with time. Believe me, I would love to buy my kitchen stove, washing machine, refrigerator, aspirator, air conditioner and vacuum cleaner from a local manufacturer. But there are none. How many household brands do really exist and how many are actually known and bought by almost everyone?

Buy used, it's totally worth it!

> Never in my life, not once, have I seen citizens voting actually change anything of significance in a country. Have you? And we're talking less than 10 years here. "These things take time" seems pretty shallow and empty as a justification for things not happening.

Start local. National politics is a distraction anyway; it's your city and state politics that matter. Our town, through a popular measure, banned fracking in the city limits. We got sued and the ban was struck down by the supreme court, but now we pay oil companies to stay out of the city limits. It's money the town spends because its citizens want to stay healthy.

Now there's a statewide proposal on the ballot today that does a similar thing (https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_112,_Minimum_Di...). Our town contributed to this proposition. Political action at a local level works.
At least in my state, getting a concealed carry permit requires:

* birth certificate, passport, or other paperwork confirming lawful presence in the US

* submitting a passport photo

* have your fingerprints

* notarized application

And after you submit all this, the powers that be have 8 weeks to process it and conduct a criminal and background check where they can reject you for any reason. I've never seen a state issued student id, but I'm fairly certain you don't have to go through all these steps. I would argue that a CC permit should be a valid form of ID.
Having voted for Brexit i can almost certainly say I've heard of it yes.
Email me: robert@ocallahan.org
Does your team need to learn how to break things?
I admit to having done both types of crossover voting. I personaly loathe the party system and those that perpetuate it. I have zero alegiance to any 'party', as they have similar feelings toward me. Its like sports favoritism, except with very real consequences. Partisanship makes me sick and deeply ashamed for those involved.
Only if choosing between two horrific candidates is the equivalent of saying "I support horrific candidate A."

You can say "these candidates are both terrible" or "these candidates are completely indistinct" by not voting, and be saying "Candidate A will bring total disaster, even though Candidate B was the worst candidate I had ever seen until I saw Candidate A" when you vote for Candidate B.

Your false dilemma is just a militant way of not listening to people.
Emacs, the 100% extendable IDE
And furthermore, copy text that was clearly not even edited
Neuroscientists Debate a Simple Question: How the Brain Stores a Phone #?
Note that the study is self reported figure on sleep duration; quality of sleep is not measured.

There have been many links between increased blue light and reduced REM/restful sleep
I don't want get too involved in this discussion, but in the medical sense, one does not simply "go into shock from the pain". For shock, there needs to be some mechanism that is interrupting the circulatory system and preventing proper blood flow to the tissues of the body[0]. Sure, that mechanism could be something that also causes one to go unconscious. It may be also be an "Acute Stress reaction" [1], and it does not seem to involve a grave threat to the circulatory system. It's psychological. Note: I am not a doctor, and anything I've said here should not be misconstrued as medical advice/diagnosis. I've simply taken a first-aid course.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_(circulatory)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_stress_reaction
If that's not a definition of "niche", I don't know what is.
I understand that this issue is a sensitive one and there is a great deal of justifiable criticism of tipping culture. However, this comment is snarky. We all know that many countries have higher minimum wages in place of a culture of tipping. The person to whom you responded is not responsible for the prevalence of tipping where he or she lives and there is no reason to be reductionist, accusatory or otherwise snarky.
And here we are in 2018 on the cusp of what is looking to be a new nuclear arms race. It’s two minutes to midnight:

https://thebulletin.org/2018-doomsday-clock-statement/
The cost isn't so much the vehicle as staffing and maintaining it — ambulances, in order to be effective, have to have both an EMT and a driver on the clock.
Yeah, I’m sure all the workers for whom that job is probably the only income they have will sabotage their future by filing a formal claim with the medical board. That’s going to be great for their continued employability.
What if all Linux users have exclusively MySQL (imagine there's no SQLite, no PostgreSQL), and then it gets bought by Oracle?
Its difficult for the "average user" (define as you please) to know what what path should look like though. Lots of ISPs will have private peerings to others ISPs/content providers/carriers etc. which aren't publically listed anywhere.
..One would work where you have 1 vote per ballot item.

That seems extremely problematic to have votes determined by ballot items. It's impossible to normalize it. Even if you just determined that "each voter nationwide gets X voting points" you'd have politicians that would try to dilute or concentrate their ballots in order to game things.
There are 2 Apple data centers being built in Denmark, and rumors of Google and Facebook ones as well.

As for the rejection of the tax, i honestly think it has more to do with avoiding double taxation.

Company taxes are at 22% in Denmark.

Denmark already collects 25% VAT on everything sold. If a 3% tax was to be imposed on "tech giants", it would ultimately end up being passed on to the consumer, effectively increasing retail price by 3% or more (depending if it's calculated as cost+28% or cost+3%+25%)

In the end it fails to accomplish the goal of forcing companies to pay local taxes instead of transferring them to wherever they can pay the least taxes, and instead drives up sale price and ultimately inflation.
Im guessing Web cams / Chat Rooms.

Like twitch you can spend money to have your donation read / request fulfilled.

One time I saw a sex toy that automatically updated the setting to the highest bidders request so there would be a tug of war between those increasing and lowering the setting. Definitely a great revenue stream if you are savvy.
A company that leverages the favourable infrastructure and institutions of a country without paying its fair share is quite simply siphoning money from the taxpayers of that country into the pockets of its shareholders, the money that maintains that infra and those institutions. Politicians need to take a step back and realize that whatever jobs these companies bring, they are still a net loss to the country as a whole, the country would literally be better off if those people were unemployed!
Until cargo gets proper support for binary libraries, and stops re-compiling common crates, things won't get better.

Although I still hope they will eventually come around to fix it.
The "building block" industry is already a decade+ old - its called AWS. Most development is already relegated to just doing the masonry between the blocks.

"Building blocks" without operational support is useless. How do you provide support for some closed "building block" contributed by someone you will never meet? Open source solves this by making "building blocks" available to everyone freely. Clouds solve this by selling you a service and you don't worry about the code.
> almost as much training as a doctor.

A PA degree only requires 2 years of post-bachelor training. An MD requires 4 years of medical school and a minimum of 3 years in residency (most specialties require 4, but some require more — e.g. 7 years for neurosurgery, or even more for oral & maxillofacial surgery since that also requires a 2-year DDS and a 6-year residency).

So 2 years for PA vs. between 7 and 11 for MD.
.NET Framework was released in 2014 and will be supported until 2025. I'm not sure the timeframes are comparable regarding Microsoft vs Oracle.
Also, it just really isn't true, that democrats have been markedly more principled with respect to judicial nominations, at least in the past several decades. Its been an escalating war of attrition on both sides - neither unwilling or even reluctant to violate norms or make the process even more political.

Democrats basically pioneered the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominees during the Bush Jr era, which was a pretty clear instance of ethically questionable, "innovative", partisan obstruction.

They were forced to relent when republicans gained enough seats in Bush's second term and threatened the "nuclear option" (the elimination of the filibuster).

Republicans made every effort to outdo the democrats during the Obama years with filibusters. Harry Reid then went nuclear to push through Obama nominees with simple majorities (removing the best tool democrats would have had to oppose Kavanaugh today). The capstone for the republicans of the Obama era was blocking Merrick Garland.

Now we have Kavanaugh. There's just no great way to interpret the democrats moves as principled here, even if you think Ford's allegations are credible (I do). The democrats needed to to obstruct and delay until the midterms, and the only tools to do it were delays, scandals and public pressure on the senate swing votes.
> delegating cryptography to non-cryptographers

Well, ok, but who is a cryptographer then? How can a non-cryptographer tell who it's safe to delegate cryptography to? You can't even really complete a degree in cryptography (you can do a CS degree with a specialization in cryptography, but that doesn't mean all that much). There's no meaningful regulatory standards body there - the CISSP is a joke and is focused on producing compliance reports anyway rather than much to do with cryptography.
Today’s lasers could turn Earth into an alien lighthouse
No I am not making a 5hat assessment, I have worked in this industry and visited the production floor at the largest refrigeration factory in USA

Most reputable manufacturers have a logo at the topleft corner of the unit. Many offbrand Chinese manufacturers don't have a visible logo here.

Most front of the house refrigerators were designed to be (1) cheaper and therefore lesser quality components, (2) less insulation and therefore more packing. Because it was designed to hold drinks. You can tell this, namely in that it has a sliding door mechanism, which is standard across these units. Heavy duty glass kitchen refrigerators are always hinge based, namely because you need to load / unload quickly and have extra space accomodation

What you see in the grocery store is a whole different level. Whereas most standalone glassdoor units like this are self-contained refrigeration, the ones at the grocery store are generally remote-based compressors. They operate at a much higher efficiency, HP rating, and run at a higher voltage.
Show HN: CleverPay – All-in-one tool to handle in-app purchases
Amazon isn’t too far behind with that model.
Hi there, hackers.

CleverPay handles everything regarding in-app purchases for iOS and Android. It consists of two things:

- a website, that lets you run automated sales, discount campaigns, experiment with payment page design, lets you swap products and even change your business model — all without ever updating the app

- and great open-sourced SDKs, that simplify the process of purchasing an in-app product down to a single method with all the important stuff going on under the hood (remote validation, fraud prevention, status updates etc.).

Will be glad if you gave us some feedback :)
It's not the ambulance that's expensive — it's staffing it with both an EMT and driver, even when it's not in use.

And in the wealthiest country in human history, that staffing cost is also the highest in human history.
Tipping's not a problem, when they present The Machine you type in the tip you want.
The decision-making process has mostly moved to the so-called "double majority" (half + 1 of member states, comprising 50%(?) of the population).

Only some areas still require unanimous consent. And even those have historically not been insurmountable. What usually happens is a bundling of issues until you get an overall package that's net positive for everyone.

What helped, historically, was a fundamental willingness to act constructively, based on the common understanding of the EU's importance for both economic growth as well as stability and peace. I think it's easy to underestimate how large the horrors of the 20th century still loom in Europe.

That's why even something as controversial as the Greek crisis somehow ended in a compromise (of that singular kind that nobody is entirely happy with).

Of course recent history has shown some cracks in this idealized story, what with Brexit, Italy, Hungary, and Poland all going full Trump-idiocracy, and the EU being a rather excellent proxy for any nationalistic, xenophobic, anti-semitic, or otherwise egocentric jingoistic tribalism that lingered below the surface previously. It's kind of ironic that so many Europeans enthusiastically agree how much they hate each other. Agreeing as in: they have actual pan-european conferences and working groups where they apparently join in complaining about "them" subjugating "us", without ever realizing that Italy's "them" is Germany's "us", and vice versa. Anyway: exciting times!
It depends. If you're shopping at Whole foods you can pay with card. If you're shopping at the bodega you pay with cash because the processing fees are larger than their margin (and consequently they might not have the card infrastructure).
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PAs can do a lot of the same things that physicians do, and are of vital importance but are distinct from physicians. For one, physicians in the US complete 4 years of medical school, then a residency, and then possibly a fellowship. On the other hand a PA is generally done in 3 years, total.

Additionally PAs can prescribe many drugs in most states, but the supervising physician is ultimately responsible for the patients care.

Finally there are numerous subspecialties that simply aren’t available to PAs.
Yeah, the model you linked has a i3-5005U - a very large step down from a i7-8559U. Still, could be sufficient depending on what you need it for.
Well Docker has just taken new funding, which makes it seem like they're not looking for an exit in the immediate future.

In general though seems likely there will be a load of consolidation across the container space over the next year or so.
> If you’re capable of understanding `finalised virtual hyperstationary factory class', remembering the Java class hierarchy, and all the details of the Java Media Framework, you are (a) a better man than i am (b) capable of filling your mind with large chunks of complexity, so concurrent programming should be simple by comparison. go for it.

> ps. i made up the hyperstationary, but then again, it’s probably a design pattern.

— forsyth

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Reminds me of a great deal of programmers in the banking world, especially those who used spring. Their software often failed, but their knowledge of Java design patterns never did!
I disagree.

If an investor is already invested in my company, then the expectation is that they are already trying to help me fundraise from future investors and helping me to realize exit with potential acquirers. So I shouldn't have to pay extra.

Obviously there is likely more to this story, but on the average this feels perverted.
The pricing is a joke.

Refurbised Mac Pro with dual GPUs and SSDs are much better value.
They didn't get a small detail wrong, they published an entire article based on a completely fabricated news story. What would you call that?
Oh, that is a valid point. Dry mass is just as important as exhaust velocity (Isp). However, I should point out that it's easier to make progress in improving dry mass than it is to improve Isp, so as materials and structural technology improves, hydrolox continues to look better.

Additionally: operating oxygen-rich causes the bulk density of hydrolox to improve dramatically. This is relevant for first stages, and if reusable launch vehicles become so cheap that propellant cost becomes a major constraint, then I should point out that liquid oxygen is practically free: less than $100 per ton.

For first stages, you're right (unless you get clever and are able to solve the engineering challenges of running oxygen-rich). For upper stages, hydrolox again looks very attractive (because a first-order optimization shows that it's energetically favorable to use higher Isp on the upper stage than the lower stage if you need to make a choice... of course, commonality of stages is also desirable at lower flight rates).
Yes, though there are some other problems too. Laser fusion basically gives you a series of small thermonuclear blasts. There are ways of confining these (like doing them underwater) and extracting heat/power, but a real power plant would probably take some engineering and might have to be rather large.

You could think of such a power plant as something like a thermonuclear internal combustion engine with laser spark plugs. Actually I wonder if giant pistons similar to the huge diesels built by Wartsila and others for container ships could work. Put some water in there with the fuel pellet and the water would be flash vaporized by the fusion yield. You'd be talking about a pretty massive engine bore, probably much larger than those monster diesels. Might be worth doing for sheer awesomeness. :)

I don't know the numbers but my guess is that lasers would have to be dramatically more efficient than they are today for this to be a practical and economical way of generating power.
So if the motherboard dies, all your data is gone?
Solving the Halting problem requires you to decide for all TMs whether they halt or not. Nothing is preventing you from deciding it for a useful subset of TMs. For example deciding it for all TMs that have an encoding that uses fewer bits than the number of atoms in the observable universe is totally possible. There are also infinite families of TMs for which you can solve the halting problem. Again, a lot of what compilers do sounds like it would require solving the halting problem, when in fact it doesn't because they only handle a subset of all possible cases.
I'm in favour of making sure teenagers get enough sleep, but why can't they just go to bed earlier?
True. People can always find a reason to justify their belief or disbelief if they really want to.