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Most of the terminals I see are NFC ready, but NFC payments are not enabled. In particular, ICA has Yomani terminals and does not accept cards not issued by them. In other countries NFC has been introduced years ago. In the Netherlands, most of the cards were replaced in 2013 and the full rollout of the tech was in 2014. The fact that a card is valid for longer does not mean that it cannot be replaced beforehand.
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this person is thinking road bikes which might not have changed much, but mountain bikes have changed a lot

1) suspension forks and full suspension bikes

2) move from 26" to 29" and 27.5

3) dropper posts

4) major changes in geometry, e.g slack head tube angles from 71/72 now the standard is around 66. Shorter chainstays.

5) fat bikes

6) hydraulic disc brakes

7) tubeless tires that use sealant that automatically seal punctures

8) electronic shifting

9) power meters

10) carbon fiber frames and wheels

11) major changes in axles from skewers to through axles

12) internal changes to hubs to increase points of engagement

13) major changes in handle bar lengths

14) drop in gears from 20+ down to 10/11 with no front shifter

15) adjustable geometry with flip chips

16) e-bikes with pedal assist

17) major changes in suspension design, horst, vpp, dw-link, etc.

18) multiple categories of bikes, downhill, enduro, all mountain, trail, xc, gravel/cyclocross

19) bike parks via ski lifts.

I expect there to be bikes that adjust gearing automatically based on a desired power output to allow you to maintain the desired cadence at the desired power.
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>This headline is quite misleading (and arguably very biased toward white readers). It describes a marked improvement in outcomes for African American study participants.

Maybe NPR is just playing to their audience?
Fairly recent Cochrane review concludes:

> ... we do not have sufficient high quality evidence to determine the effects of [omega-3] as a treatment for [major depression]. Our primary analyses suggest a small-to-modest, non-clinically beneficial effect ... compared to placebo; however the estimate is imprecise, and we judged the quality of the evidence on which this result is based to be low/very low.

https://www.cochrane.org/CD004692/DEPRESSN_omega-3-fatty-aci...

Also, I'd be careful with Mark Hyman. He's controversial at best and associated with some fairly quacky organisations. I'm also automatically wary because his bibliography is wonder-fix followed by magic-cure - and medicine is never that simple.

I'm a student doctor. If the answer was easy we'd have found it, and we'd tell you about it.
Porn as money? Never thought of that. Makes we wonder about the possibilities. Would porn stars be the bankers? Who would
be the fed chair? Imagine the how full the economic courses would become.
Without reading the article, if you're dark skinned you need to be really aware of your vitamin D levels when living away from a tropical sun.

Just like super white people need to be careful about sun screen when away from northern European climates.
That's sort of like asking why we keep using antibiotics when you could just live in a bubble. Answer: Because not dieting and exercising is easier, cheaper, and more efficient.
How did you type those knots over a? I'm on windows.
Certainly. Every post is similar, other marketing is strangely 100% positive. There's a NYTimes article about it[0] that gives the story and some more details.

I'm not sure what to recommend the OP about this, but something sure doesn't feel right about the whole thing.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/education/holberton-a-two...
Loads of London is the latter half of your comment.

Most streets I've lived on have a mix of family homes, new build apartment blocks, weird split-up family homes that now house multiple individuals, etc.

Apparently (at least compared to the US) we're quite unique in mixing rich and poor in this way though.
Used to be, although at least Verizon is actively tearing out copper as fast as they can, so that they aren't subject to the old telco regulations.
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> frictionless

Except when they have no change (forcing you to find someone willing to change it or wait for them to do so) or refuse to accept a large bill. I often choose to use cash, but it's really not frictionless.
Actually, if use of cash can be denied, then yes, coercion for using cards could be established. Are Swedish businesses allowed to reject cash? I think I read they can in that article.

Coercion: "To force to act or think in a certain way by use of pressure, threats, or intimidation; compel."

So if I'm down the street and cash won't let me get on a bus, the movie tickets can't be purchased, food can't be bought etc. There's the basis for pressure. Can't buy food without card, ok you go hungry. There's the threat. I'm sure that intimidation will turn up in a lot of little ways. Public ostracism / humiliation (even at subtle levels) due to not having a card could be seen as real enough to count. The network effects of not having a card will likely cause serious inconvenience.

If "you can't do anything without a card" then you are compelled to get one.

Sounds like coercion to me.
The Danish version, MobilePay, is fairly widely accepted by small and some medium businesses.

Very small businesses might only accept MobilePay or cash (e.g. come and see an obscure band perform in Copenhagen, the ticket, cloakroom and bar might have these choices.)

Larger places offer it as an alternative. The canteens at Copenhagen University, for example.
They don't want to but developers do and will buy property to do that with. Unfortunately we let governments stop them.
Unfortunately owning a home doesn't insulate you from that. My homeowners insurance jumped from about 350/year to about 1400/year during the last recession. And property taxes jumped from 5K to nearly 9K. This is over a 10 year period.
Can you talk about the reasons of the failure?
Does not matter. The effects on African American populations were probably not part of the pre defined endpoints, so yes, it is perfectly acceptable to say the study is negative. Looking at subgroups a posteriori is essentially what leads to p hacking and this is the behavior that we want to discourage in sciences.
I experienced this myself. My dad went into the family business, and had another job offer waiting (in a small town) when they sold that without having to be interviewed. I never learned how to really network or do stuff like that in college, and it definitely impacted my opportunities and such. I never even realized how important it was until I went to an "elite" college, where it seemed like all the other (read: those whose parents had to, or were raised much more well-off than I was) students knew how to. I was kinda at a lost because the university often assumed we knew it too, and so let it go by without necessarily teaching us.
I don’t know, the findings about African Americans seem to be a case of “outcome switching” [0] since it does not appear that this trial was specifically designed to test against that group.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2015/12/29/10654056/ben-goldacre-compare...
I didn't try with WeChat but I did try with AliPay. You can register your non-Chinese card, but it will not let you pay with it.
Is it really much faster than contactless credit cards?

I can see value for certain specialist places, like a resort where everyone is wearing swimwear. Or a fetish club.
I'm curious as to whether 2000 IU per day is considered a large dose by the HN community. I've a bottle of 5,000 IU.
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At a high level, I think the top level advantages potentially are in power saving and flexibility when working on machine learning problems.

The brain is very power efficient compared to modern computers. Incorporating more “organic” structured can lead to much greater power efficiency.

As more is learned about efficient neural network models, implementing them in hardware will lead to much faster and cheaper learning models.
The evidence suggests that "quite difficult" is actually closer to "practically impossible". It's not just willpower, it's social and economic also!
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"At this point, if one is thinking about supplementation, either omega-3s or vitamin D, talking to your physician or healthcare provider is the next step" Does anyone actually talk to their doctor before taking a vitamin? What information could they possibly provide
As an expat living in HK, I did not quite understand the explanations about delays at the beginning of the article.

The golden week is Japanese, not Chinese. Nothing closes in China at that time. And it’s in may/april.

Mangkhut did not really hit China mainland, it was already mainly just a storm when it reached mainland, and it died in 1/2 days once leaving the sea. I guess most of the factories are near Shenzhen, they should not have really suffered from Manghkut.

Just wanted to rectify that...
I have always thought of studios as a creative peoples "dev team". So obsidian game developer team. But I've always wondered if there are any operational differences too. Do people move across these "dev" teams? These are all Microsoft employees, right?
Could just recap it. I did an Apple a while back. Was not hard.
gitolite + gitolite-simple-mirror is amazing for this.
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Why do you think so? If you accept the body as a very complex biochemical machine, then you should also accept that there are some changes you can introduce that impact the overall state. Take for example Myostatin: its an active ingredient that promotes the build up of muscular mass, and this does not require to do any physical activity. There are thousands of substances that significantly impact how you feel, sleep, and operate, so I am not sure why the answer to every problem should always be diet and exercise.
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> HN's absurd title policy is using a clickbait (and misleading) title chosen by NPR and amplifying it.

In general I think the HN title policy works great, and I don’t think it’s fair to call it “absurd”.

I think HN at its core always was a sort of social experiment revolving around online discussions. The title policy, along with the guidelines, is what makes HN be HN.
Same here, I did a bunch of SEPA transfers between two EU countries last year, and all they asked was for the IBAN.
This looks perfect. I’d like to be able to keep a notebook like this stuffed full of tiny opinions, software research, and project plans. Most notes tools are either too simple, or limit me to writing using their tool. This looks like a perfect solution, with really cool refactoring tools to boot!
Cash is not one of those things though. Nor is the system of buying metro tickets with cash only and without an option to change language.
Amazon definitely has a huge counterfeit problem.

My first impression/hope is that this is part of an attempt to repair that.

But it sure seems like the wrong target, as these guys are just selling repaired old goods, not fake new goods, which is the problem.

If they have a big problem with high defect/return rates, they certainly should be sanctioned out also. but my suspicion is that this is just a deal between BigCo a and BigCo B to enhance extractive profits. Sad to see it going like this...
This was in otherwise generally healthy people, so the dosage is going to be less than you'd give to a person with a deficiency.

A person with a moderate deficiency would probably get 5,000 IU. Doses up to 10,000 IU are fairly well tolerated.

So, no it's not a large dose. It's a modest dose.
How do you handle the increased demand without even more dedicated infrastructure for roads? How much cheaper is it than dedicated infrastructure for buses and rails which have far more capacity?
Given these studies. I will stop taking fish oil. However, in light of further evidence by gwern as presented below, I will continue to take Vitamin D, even though my confidence in it is lessened.

https://www.gwern.net/Longevity
The absurd part isn't the convention of being true to the source's headline — which is good, generally — but the dogged persistence in keeping bad and misleading headlines, with extremely rare exception.
So, sure. I’ve written velocity guessers based on spinning rust disk accelerometers. It’s easy to build a poor quality system. But an afternoon hack can get you to a few percent accuracy.

Analog integration will improve your accuracy a ton. Multiple systems, averaged will improve accuracy even more.

Sure, there are problems. But tomahawk missiles use inertial guidance. Autopilots do it to. More data will give better answers. But don’t sell ig short. You can get very good answers.
I work indoors and there's not enough sunlight around to get enough vitamin D, especially this time of year.
The firearm problem can fail a few times and it'd still be better then what we have. It's like Tesla crashing a few times. Still better than not having it.

How sure do we need to be that we're safe from evil AGI? Once it's in the wild, we don't get another chance to make it safe.

Once evil AGI arrives, that's quite possibly binary. Our only hope is good AGI outsmarting it and at that point we're playing the same game that produced us. We're not universally good. So we have to be more sure of it then anything, so we don't go down that road.

On this issue, I'd prefer the truly paranoid are in charge of safety. Not the gung-ho "of course it'll be nicer then us" crowd.

I don't think we can constrain it. Our best hope is to discover that it wouldn't care to harm us.
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> Well, the council tax looks an awful lot like one, but if you insist.

There's a post further down in which it's explained how CT is nothing like a property tax. It's levied on the occupier not the owner and it's not percentage based. It's ostensibly for services rendered e.g. bins taken out, roads etc.

Your home and all the homes in your town could quadruple in externally assessed value and the absolute amount paid would remain static because it's formulated in such a way that it's paid based on relative home value within an area (rather than absolute).

> Sounds a lot like you're asking for rent control for the wealthy.

I'm pretty much baffled by what you mean here.

My grandmother is not wealthy. Neither is my mother. Neither would they become wealthy if the town around them suddenly turned into an SF/London.

The external valuation of their home that they live in would increase which is a completely different matter entirely.

It's an injection of financialization into a situation where none exists. I won't be dragged in to that game, sorry.
The trouble is with your definition of picking.

If the selection process involves digital steps then for sure you can ONLY pick computable numbers. But if the selection process involves some analog movement then it’s an interesting open question — my guess is that because of Planck Length, you can only pick rational numbers. So in what sense do irrational numbers or transcendental numbers or imaginary numbers exist? They are useful abstractions only.

Who was it that said “God created the integers, man invented everything else”?
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I've seen use of rat brains to control devices. Is that considered neuromorphic? Has there been an attempt to use human brain matter in such devices?
They would have to pay commission on every transaction to whoever owns the terminal and the network.
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The cloud is a magical place of perfect security and data preservation... Trusting in the clouds means everything will be ok... far better than I could ever achieve onprem, far better than admins with 20+ years experiance could do, only the cloud can provide for today's modern systems....
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> No hassle with pens and receipts and handing cards around or any of that.

Is there normally hassle? In Europe, and I think this generalisation holds in the countries that commonly pay with a card, the terminal is either mounted on the bar facing the customer, or is portable and left in a similar position.

In any case, there's never a pen, receipts mostly go immediately in the bin unless someone is claiming expenses, and the card never leaves the customer's hand.

So it's little different from a contactless bracelet, except I trust Europay-MasterCard-Visa more han a POS supplier.

It helps that there are no tips. If the number on the screen looks reasonable, I don't touch the terminal at all.
My previous Brooks wasn't as comfortable as I hoped, but when that bike got stolen I got a wider Brooks for the new bike. Comfortable from day one.
Compass, not computer, for those that misread the title.
Show me a randomized control study of healthy people with lower all cause mortality from either diet or exercise, and I'll gladly change my ways.
They could inform you how much 30 minutes of their time and the facility fees truly cost. ;-)

If you're quite serious about it you could maybe draw blood and see if you're deficient in any particular vitamins.
It wouldn't be a problem at all if opportunity weren't so concentrated. I don't know about the UK but in the US opportunity is very concentrated in a few cities.
There are fintech companies that make transfers between countries painless and cheap.
In my country I can withdraw cash from the machine as I pay for shopping at the supermarket. And I'm not saying I withdraw cash then pay. I pay with the card AND the cash I withdrew comes out after the transaction is complete.

I haven't been to a bank for getting cash in 10 years. And as you say, ATMs are where you get cash.
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This is not a case of misleading headline. The study endpoints were not met. It is negative.
It seems to me that we should have a different measure than lebesgue measure when we speak of picking numbers from an interval.

I wonder if there is a measure under which computable numbers have measure 1 while the others have measure 0. Would it have all the correct properties?
That would be of limited value to someone in Sweden, which uses the krona. Automatic currency conversion is one of the advantages of electronic payments over cash.
Amusing how GitHub thinks the project is 94.9% Makefile and 5.1% Batchfile. It obviously doesn't know about Asm very well.
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As a programmer, we have this concept called "yagni" for "You Aren't Gonna Need It" which is based on this idea that you build only what you need: and I question the idea that living in one place and commuting to another is even going to be a thing as it has been historically.

The daily traffic through Downtown and Mission Valley, North 15, South 163, North 125, East 94, etc, then flipping directions later, is all the truly insane thing.

I don't think we "need" transit that anticipates bad choices of where to live relative to work, and Downtown is part of the World more than the Region. The world is changing this way. People used to live near rivers for water, and near animals for food, etc. Still applies if you can't work remotely.

Working remotely, living a more master-planned life, ride-sharing, etc... these are all options. But instead people prioritize this idea of me the individual in my individual car ought to be able to individually drive with all the other individual drivers wherever I want, and I disagree that is a design priority for a civil infrastructure.

So no, San Diego isn't making that more possible, and I applaud that. But when it comes to the original post and questions posed, it's still safe to say San Diego is tending toward car-free, especially Downtown, if you don't maintain backward compatibility with inappropriate circumstances like what you described. I've heard people say they commute to Point Loma from Descanso and we have a word for that: masochism.

Everyone commuting at all is a choice. The best case I can hear for not being car-free is the delivery business, contractors, etc... people who _actually need_ to be that kind of atypical. But to expect the civil infrastructure to give you the option to all rush certain areas at the same time every day, anywhere on the grid, is a bit old.

As far as getting to the beach, that's definitely an option depending on which beach obviously, but again, this isn't an amusement park so I'm not expecting the government to take me where I want to go, and I do have a car, largely for just driving at night all around the county, or for transporting animals, or making some of the trips you mention -- just never commute. And this is the type of thing San Diego has caused me to question. In the future if I wanted to just drive around, I might consider just using a ride-share rental vs. ride-share driver, etc. I never said public transportation itself was the answer, and to be car-free tending is within that definition: still planning to pay what you cost, not needing a huge system to accommodate me and do massive public works projects. I'd rather there be less of that honestly.
Real gyro != Mems gyro.

Real gyro is REALLY rigid in space. Mems gyro isn't. It causes errors after mere minutes of integration. INS systems in planes and gyros in missiles are REAL gyros. This isn't. This is more like a better mems system.
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Potentially, your equipment could be incapable of handling packets at line rate (which is more difficult if the packets are small). That's fairly easy to solve though, especially if you're only looking at gigE -- get better hardware and/or software

The problem is if your attacker is sending you more traffic than your incoming bandwidth. Packets will be dropped, and in most cases you won't be able to control which ones. Depending on how the other side is configured, what packets you do get could be highly delayed. That means actual connections to you are likely going to see a lot of retransmits to you as well as from you. It's possible to still make some progress in these conditions, but not very much, processing power won't help.
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I think you read 1984 too many times. What you wrote is a pure fantasy of a mind who grew up in cold era Western propaganda.
Microsoft isn’t going to steal my source code. If I worry about all this shit I will never ship.
So wait, what is disappointing about this:

"Taking fish oil lowered the risk of heart attack by about 28 percent, which is a "statistically significant" finding, says Dr. JoAnn Manson, who is chief of the division of preventive medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She led the research."

and

"African-Americans in the study experienced a 77 percent lower risk of heart attack when compared to placebo, which is a "dramatic reduction,"
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. I live in America too, now, but I haven’t ever actually seen the projects and the ones in The Wire aren’t quite what I was thinking of. Those look ugly and run down.
It's almost like interoperability is hard or something.
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"Good"? "Bad"? How could one possibly make such a decision for something as huge and diverse as Stackoverflow? Lists of positives and negatives? Sure. Sweeping judgements? No.
I like mine (a 13). Hardware seems very solid, battery life is good. Screen, keyboard, touchpad are fine for me (some people are very picky about these things). Having the kilswitches for mike/camera and wireless/bluetooth are nice. I was on a 2013 13" MacBook Pro previously (an amazing piece of hardware as well) and can't say I miss it.

The only thing I miss actually is the 16x10 aspect ratio of the MBP, where the Librem like all other laptops I know of is 16x9.

Software-wise I've stuck to PureOS (which is Debian-based) despite temptations to install Arch or something. It's worked fine for me.