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The OP said he would have felt fine had his returns been limited to 10%. I hope you realize your characterization of returns ("profit without creating value") can be applied whether his program yielded 10% returns or 400%. The moral dilemma for someone who has a conscious that you describe would be choosing to invest in the first place (is investing on the stock market creating value?) or choosing an investment strategy (is this certain strategy creating value?).
not really relevant. just said the name because the comment I was commenting on start with it. Still unsure how the commenter sees getting call about hair cut schedule help him with task overhead.

The comment make it look like that person is their mother, who knows everything about their life and can comment on. When in reality we know they only know what you email them about. And after a while emailing people is as much (if not more) of a chore than using a simple list.
"is there any feature of Dart that is required by Flutter?"

The Dart platform provides the following features:

- Subsecond hot reload

- AOT to ARM

- Bytecode interpreter for debug mode on IOS

- JIT for debug mode on Android

- GC tuned for Flutter's build methods. (like React's render)

Not aware of any other platform provides all of these features. Bolting these features on to another existing language and platform which wasn't designed with these goals would be hard.
There's even Freedom of Information requests on the number of cleaners and frequency of cleaning London Underground trains.

Combined, the information shows they do a "deep clean" on every train every 21 days, and it takes four hours per carriage.

Then 15 minutes per carriage just under twice per day per carriage.

I suspect the cleaning I saw isn't part of this, but is the station cleaning staff feeling it's easier to pick the litter from the train rather that wait for wind to blow it out and around the station.

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa...

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/transparency/freedom-of-informa...
A 'solar heating panel' in most cases is a water tank exposed to the sun as much as possible painted in black. Or maybe put inside a black box. Not a lot of electricity work there.
Or some rich and powerful people decided to tell you a metior was about to pummel the Earth and you better accept a reduced standard of living while they fly to and from climate conferences in their private jets.

If your political beliefs tell you to not save for your retirement because the apocalypse is coming, that should be a serious red flag.
From the article:

"Instead of his usual fare of nephrology and diabetes papers, Johnson began to pore over global maps of climate and solar radiation. The rise in average temperatures over the last few years in Central America had been incremental, but the number of extreme events had gone up disproportionately. “And, by gosh, the areas that have the highest solar radiation and heatwaves are overlapping the places right where the epidemics are.”"

You might not agree with what they are saying, but they are clearly arguing that climate change is a factor in the epidemic.
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Yes they're related, but think of the differences:

US credit score = 35% payment history + 30% debt burden + 15% credit history + 10% credit types + 10% recent credit searches. Used for lending, and sometimes for leasing and employment.

Social credit system = a black box of metrics that can change at any time, relating to your speech, browsing history, political ideas, entertainment choices, shopping history, dating behavior, etc. Used to limit options in travel, education, dating, purchasing, internet speed, etc.

If the US credit system starts becoming more like the latter, then yes, that's cause for concern. But so far its problems are of a very different scale than a social credit system.
Of course, for now. But I still disagree that it is as easy (or hard) to write C without bugs as in any other languages. Most people should not write C.
As I recall, it took me a considerable while to determine that the equipment worked outside the case. I think I tried replacing the RAM, CPU, and PSU before doing the mobo, and unless you have an idea that the case itself might be the issue, well, why would you take the rest of the machine apart? And even if you suspected a board short, you might easily be misled into thinking that it was a part of the case touching the mobo inappropriately, and leave the reset/power leads connected: it's a lot easier to punch the case reset button than to use the tiny one built into the board. And of course, figuring out that the system works without the power switch connected is not super useful in itself: that is something of a necessary component.

I'm just still amazed that he figured it out that quickly; I really didn't tell him much about what had happened, and I'd hardly had time to leave the room before he'd solved it. What a jerk :)
Whatever happened to the Bloomberg story, did they apologise in the end?
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EdgeCast supports QUIC as well

https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/blog/2018/05/quic-announ...
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if it comes, the last day of our civilization with thousands of ICBM launching is going to look spectacular.
Sorry I'm late getting back to this, but thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't heard of an online version of LibreOffice, so I'll definitely check it out. I really hope there will be a way to have the benefits of server-based word processors and spreadsheets without handing our private data to people whose business is profiling us.
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"These days, it’s easy to make subway systems because we have amazing tunneling machines..."

-spits out coffee comically-

I suppose compared to 1905 it's easier, but it's still not "easy." Tunneling never goes off without some kind of hitch, and almost always goes over budget or off-schedule.

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

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

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

I agree with the general thrust of the piece though.
I think the point is that the existing grid has the ability to do that on-demand scaling, so adding variable solar or wind capacity to the grid means the problem is already dealt with. Of course as we transition to higher percentages of solar and wind capacity the demand scaling will become a bigger issue and storing the solar and wind output will be needed. I'm not sure how far away that is now - perhaps the existing hydro and nuclear capacity is enough to deal with all of that variability, but I expect at some point we'll need to figure out the storage issue.
Definitely not limited to children, I observe this in myself too. (although hopefully I handle it better than a child)

I suspect that is because when playing a physical sport, the physical exertion gives you a dopamine rush whether you lose or win. When playing video games, you have no such release if you lose - just pent up frustration.
He spends more, but on different things than what Soros funds.
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Okay, so what exactly does "dead" mean here?
No doubt it had its flaws. But those could have been worked out. Unfortunately, it was as if Google wanted to say this is how YOU are going to work, and wasn't interested in the possibility that they could be mistaken.

File under: great idea! Poor execution.

The latter was so bad I'm still surprised no one else picked up the idea and ran with it. It wasn't the idea that failed. It was the brand / company / org that conceived it.
Agreed! I lived in Taipei for a couple of years, and currently am spending some time in NY. I was being a bit flippant. :-)
I would buy a Lisp machine, provided that I could afford it. That proviso was the undoing of them, IMHO.
I think the "political reality" attitude is an interesting one, but can be used as an excuse.

I'm not convinced that it isn't possible to scale up to the entire US population in a way that doesn't suck, but you could be right. To work well it would certainly involve systemic change across the healthcare industry, and some current players would be hurt. Perhaps it's not politically feasible in the US, but if so that is a pretty damning indictment of the state of things.
yours is a really good question, one of the links answers it:

https://today.uconn.edu/2013/02/uconn-professors-patented-te...

Look at the picture of the electrode with triangles and the other rectangular. The distance between the tip of the triangle and the other electrode is required to be on the order of a nm (in this reference here 1.5nm). This allows electrons to tunnel from one electrode to the other. A charge on an electrode tries to spread out, and the density is higher near pointed protrusions. So in the cycle the triangle-electrode is negatively charged, the electrons can tunnel to the other electrode, but in the other half of the cycle the electrodes prefer to spread out differently on the rectangular electrode. That's how the diode is implemented.

Edit: just adding, so the asymmetry of the diode is due to the asymmetry between electrodes and the asymmetry between electron and hole mobilities
Watching the earth from above like this always reminds me of what Carl Sagan used to say about it:

"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
If you click on the post office of the closest town and look at the images, the town looks nice and clean, but there is literally not a human soul to be found. What's going on there? https://www.google.be/maps/place/Ubiraita/@-12.589317,-41.00...
LMI had some interesting hardware: the were one of the first users of the NuBUS (which was later used in a smaller version in the Mac II by Apple) and they had Lisp Machines with several CPU boards: these used the infrastructure of a single machine, but each board could run its Lisp independently.

TI bought/licensed the technology from LMI and then developed a bunch of interesting machines, like: Lisp Machines with embedded Unix system running on its own 68020 and communicating via a 68010, the first commercial Lisp Microprocessor (a 32bit chip), compact Lisp workstations using that chip, a NuBUS board for the Mac II based on their Lisp chip, ...
I think even most people who "believe" are only saying it for social acceptance. I see no evidence of more than a very few people making the sorts of changes in their lifestyle that would make any difference in their personal carbon emissions
> Not FOR WhatsApp it isn't. I don't know of an app that all my family/friends would switch to if WhatsApp decided to put ads on it. Switching chat apps with your entire contacts list is very cumbersome.

Signal is a pretty good drop-in replacement for WhatsApp, given that WhatsApp is pretty much a Signal clone (it uses its protocol, etc).
No, not “but still”. Water is one oxygen atom from being bleach. Chlorine is metabolically essential.

Chemistry doesn’t care about buzzwords. If you don’t specify what exactly is bad about the industrial handling of whichever chemicals actually are toxic in this case, you’re just flag-waving, not helping.
Eagerly waiting for you to start sending patches for every system, including proprietary and unmaintained ones, and ensuring that those get included by default.
Well, here's one factor:

> The challenge is particularly acute in France, where hospitals have been facing a national crisis, with health care professionals striking and protesting budget cuts and staff shortages.
part of the issue is if you have anything other than textedit open, the discrete GPU is on hoovering up all your watt-hours.
Perhaps more cities can try something like this
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None of the 3 attached images show how it looks from space.
Personally, I'm all for improved safety standards. And I very much appreciate the wide pedestrian and bike lanes on the new Sellwood bridge. I used to bike across the Sellwood regularly and it was a nerve-wracking experience.

It's interesting that the Sellwood bridge was so much more expensive than Tilikum (2.4x as much, not 3x, according to my quick search). I wonder why that was? I'm not a civil engineer, but if I were to guess, I would guess that it's a combination of the new Sellwood interchange and the need to deal with the existing bridge.
The parent commenter specifically said they checked clockspeed was good.
The loss of the W&OD railway was a major failure of foresight IMHO. It collapsed for the same reason most local rail systems collapsed around that time: automobiles ate their lunch.

Now the local government is spending billions to build the silver line expansion more or less parallel to the W&OD trail, except that it doesn't go as far. The stations locations for the Silver Line are not very good. They bypass the downtown areas of Reston, Herndon, and Ashburn (such as it is) so the rail lines can be built in the middle of the toll road. Only a couple of the Tysons Corner stops really make much sense. Even the Dulles Airport stop is a quarter mile from the terminal.

But really they didn't have the option of running it through town without buying out loads of expensive property (and no doubt a whole lot of politically unpopular eminent domain use) and spending decades in court fighting over it.
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So how are you going to monetize this?
A demo would have to come with a billion disclaimers, but could be incredible. I kinda need a demo for catharsis reasons...
It's certainly possible for both RN and AirBnB's internal organization to not be great.
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I'm not criticizing the existence of deposits, but increasing the size of deposits for high-risk customers is without a doubt a cash-grab on the poor. Deposits exist to protect the issuer of the property from a potential delinquency. When it comes to turning off someones power, the cost is fairly the same (and the cost of travel certainly doesn't increase by a fibonacci-esque rate).

Plus, I wasn't living beyond my means. Paying a power deposit equal to one month's rent is not within most peoples' means. I recently paid $50 to turn the power on in my $1400 apartment.

That aside, I'm also not sure you understand the circumstances if you think being "forced to spend beyond your means" isn't something that people in poverty regular have to go through. I'm at a place now where I can afford a credit line, but that's not the case for a lot of people. Those people shouldn't be punished from abstaining. A credit line is a commitment, no matter if you can make your payments or not

All-in-all, I think the credit system has a slew of good intentions going into it, but it has had a quite a few negative effects in regards to the poor and essential utilities. It's also used to drive where a lot of businesses set up shop (I work for one - thanks, Experian) - so the idea that this Chinese social credit system is far removed from our financial credit system just isn't true. It's not directly applied to social lives, but it's overall effects on a person's social life are abundantly clear. If anything, the financial credit system could end up being more sweeping and inter-generational, but that remains to be seen.
Yes it does. Users of the platform today are uninterrupted by ads and have no reason to think about how the platform is mining their data -- many are unaware its owned by FB.

Depending on the intrusiveness of the ads, users may opt to move to another platform, which will lead to more people being pulled away from Whatsapp. FB will have to monetize aggressively to recoup investments and keep wallstreet happy, but users may not be very receptive to ads within their messaging platform.
Imagine what an observing alien species might be thinking as they watch this.
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I suppose they're all more imperative and OO languages than not? Certainly they're more similar to each other than to Haskell or Go, for instance.

As for why Flutter uses Dart, this is the canonical answer: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf
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Rail projects have a lot of political pushback in the US. They're expected to pay for themselves and realistically rarely manage to do so. They tend to be costed compared to cars, and somehow the cost of building and maintaining the roads is not included in that comparison, except for the relatively small fraction that comes from the gas tax.

So rail projects somehow never look economically viable compared to a magically free road system.
And where do you think this entitlement comes from? Not from a system that is designed to make them feel they have these kinds of entitlements?
Nah, the super expensive and always goes way over budget are features of subways only when Americans make them, unfortunately. That's not to say no one else has construction projects that go over budget, but the rest of the world -- more developed countries and less developed countries alike -- all manage to build infra for way less money, and much closer to budget.

If we want nice things -- like trains that work! -- we have to figure this out.

see, for example, https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/why-its-so-ex...

and

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/01/27/construction-c...
No crew in this one, it is a Progress [1] freighter.

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Interesting to see all the traction this is getting, I think that it certainly addresses a need! I stumbled upon this a few months ago when I saw this website which was made by the same folks: https://whydoiprocrastinate.com/
Ye, of course. But the comparison was with ICEs and given that you could bring an ICE weight carrying capacity is usually not that scarce like back packing or balloons.

Depends on if you need power, or, energy over time for the same weight.
A GAN is a fascinating way of using 2 neural nets together, or rather against each other e.g. pix2pix used conditional GANs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
Then you will need this as well https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features
It certainly can be and is largely subjective. But, I bet you know that already.
One of the hardest parts of grieving is trying to ignore all the "What if?" questions. What if I had listened more? What if I hadn't tried to fix everything? etc.

It sounds like you were a great friend. Those visits probably meant the world to him, regardless if you were massaging his feet or just chatting.
That's interesting, and I wonder if it ever went in to production, and if so how many units were sold.

Unfortunately, it seems to have been based around PicoLisp, which isn't exactly a popular Lisp implementation.

I expect that for any project like this to get wide traction in the Lisp community, it would have to be based around Common Lisp, as that's by far the most popular Lisp out there, with a huge existing ecosystem it could leverage -- an advantage akin to basing the Raspberry Pi around Java.
I consider this to be a potentially terrifying idea. Maybe if "status" were rigorously kept to measurements of honesty and reliability that are as objective and unbiased as possible, I could see it working reasonably well but the much more probable reality would be one of crushing conformity to established social trends and a tendency toward ostracizing people who don't follow along with them, even if those trends (by virtue of being trends) aren't at all reasonably objective measurements of good, bad or moral in a person.
I’m not talking about just hardware support. I also mean basic day to day sysadmin tasks and software configuration, and user things like having quick workflows for editing and sharing pictures, etc.
huge pensions

Interesting. Out of curiosity, do you know how large the pensions were, per employee?
This is a big deal for serverless fans.. if the connection latency is good, then no more hassles with VPC, DynamoDB, etc..
I don't see how all journalism is not inherently self-serving to the journalists' own narratives to a non-zero degree. I don't believe you can prevent that. Glenn Greenwald did a good job making the point in an interview from 2016: https://current.org/2016/03/glenn-greenwald-on-the-adversari... starting at "So is it your position..."
There was also the Symbolics MacIvory. I've got one of those in a IIci.
My questions were rhetorical. I was trying to explain why I believe clothes are expensive in wealthy areas, not asking about you personally.
It's not quite that simple. Flat plate collectors are roof components, and they have all the problems of roofing. Making them leakproof despite big thermal stresses takes some work. Brazed copper plumbing works. Plastics, not as well.[1]

You usually want a water tank to buffer the thing, so you can get hot water at night. Temperature will be all over the place without that. Giant hot water tanks in attics need extra structural support, which was a problem in Florida at one time.

There are some fancier setups that will work in cold weather. Some systems use antifreeze in the panels, and a heat exchanger.

[1] http://www.alternative-energy-tutorials.com/solar-hot-water/...
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I don't expect the panels to be the first things taken.

The battery bank and inverter however, which are easily put invisibly to use by anyone even your neighbor, are quite the prize.

I'm not sure it's all that unusual a case. Solar is especially relevant to remote off-grid homes. Unfortunately, these are also prime targets for theft as they're often left unattended for long periods with distant neighbors.

Denser populations have a grid, and can just have a large solar installation powering that grid on a large scale.

It's a problem. Solar puts expensive infrastructure on-site, it's a mini power station.
My comment wasn't meant to be macbook specific. Most laptop speakers don't sound as nice as a reasonable set of bluetooth speakers or headphones. The main point of my comment was to counter the (strawman) idea that the only option for someone who didn't like the laptop speaker was to carry around a bluetooth speaker with them from room to room, which is of course not very practical. But having a couple of them strategically placed in the house is affordable and practical for most cases.
Was expecting more photos. I didn’t really see or understand what the villages are... just about them. :(
So theoretically speaking, any secure protocol running over TCP can be run over QUIC? Like FTPS, SMTPS, IMAP etc?
Thank you for the advice. I hadn't considered launching without billing. I don't think a free trial for my product could be very long (since it involves sending lots of SMS which would cost me quite a bit if I get a big user spike). But I think I can provide a sort of demo without that bit.
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That kind of statistic reminds me that Great Britain, for example, has 20% of the population of the United States, but almost 20% less land than the state of Oregon.
In the same vein - if you happen to be stuck in a problem domain where counting/avoiding allocations is important the other languages I listed above (even C++ really) make things very hard. Rust has a decent take on building a safer c++ (with what appears to be C++ levels of complexity). Would like something similar to emerge for C.
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The Symbolics MacIvory is a bit more complex, since it is a 40bit machine and also uses 48bit ECC memory.