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I've been snowboarding for 12 years, done many 120+ day seasons, and I'm a certified Level 2 instructor in Canada, have done the course for Level 3, need to take the exam. (There are only 4 levels).

I don't love all your advice.

1. Sure, marketing gimmicks are great, and you're right, it will help a little. Learning good technique will help a lot more. Learn how to control the edge and how to turn the board when you want to turn the board.

2. 30 front and 15 rear is too much of a difference, which means you'll never learn switch, and things will feel wrong when the board accidentally goes the wrong way (beginners get this all the time). WAAAAY better to go something like 18 front and 12 rear. i.e. it's like 15/15 duck, but then move both of them forward 3 degrees.

CASI (Canadian Association Of Snowboard Instructors) are fine if you want to go "forward facing" like your 30 front foot, but you have to do it all the time if you want to pass any exams, which gets hard. It's not a good footing to build your snowboarding career from (excuse the pun)

3. No. Three thousand times no. Then another thousand times. (I'm not trying to be a jerk, but you just failed your CASI Level 1 instructor exam.)

One of the biggest parts of the level 1 instructor exams is terrain selection, for very good reason. It depends a lot on the temperature at the time, and the snow conditions, but more often than not you do not want a blue slope for a never-ever. Find a green slope that does NOT go off to either side. ie. you roll a snowball down it, the snowball goes straight down the middle, it doesn't veer off to either side.

If you go too steep, your students will be terrified of the "dead zone" when they are between edges and pointing down the fall line, because they will accelerate and be afraid. That's how you teach people to go top to bottom on one edge, which is not what we want.

You MUST pick a suitable slope so the student is not afraid to actually make turns, otherwise they'll never progress. I see this in students all the time who say "I can snowboard" and they go down pretty fast, all the while standing perfectly still on their heel edge.

For what it's worth, I had been snowboarding for 5 or 6 years before I took an instructor course. Before the course I would aggressively go down all the double-black runs on the mountain, as fast as anyone, and fell rarely.
During the Level 1 course my mind was blown, my snowboarding was torn back to square one and I have been building on a correct foundation ever since. It's like a whole new sport, and I fell in love with it all over again. The title of this post caught my attention because I'm a Geek who learns and does things very intellectually. I highly, highly recommend taking an instructor course, even if you never intend to teach. It's the cheapest lessons from a very experienced instructor you'll ever get.
Yeah, that was basically my point: if you actually use most of what you get it's a good deal. If your usage has been stable for awhile you're probably overpaying for the possibility that your usage will change.
True. Revolut got its banking license in Lithuania, not in the UK. That's why people in London might prefer Monzo.
If you lived in one of those german towns owned by some aristocrat, you did not own anything, most of the time actually you where owned via some debt, handed down for generations, a slave bound to the house, land, service.

On the surface your life was not bad, it was not good, it was utterly without hope for improvement and direction. A horse was a horse, was a horse, will ever be a horse.
People did run away from this "simple" existence to work in the slave-pits of industrializing cities and the uncertainty of frontier countrys and colonies. Because there was something that happened, things where changing, not always for the better, but at least your live wouldnt be just another layer in the sediment.

Its better to burn it all to the ground, then to be a servant bound to the whims of some billionaire, who might gamble your life away on a bad days afternoon.

Guess that memory is not something alive in america. But your ancestors should have vaccacinated against that.
I’m writing a C port of the LuaJIT VM at the moment. I’m hoping that will help people to understand the overall design and make it easier to interpret the asm code (amongst other things). Link: https://github.com/raptorjit/raptorjit/pull/199
Systemic issues are not solved by individual action. Software people (generally) seem to understand that in our field; it's why we have standards and code reviews. I don't understand why that understanding leaks out of one's brain when it's applied to the rest of the world.

The issues that proponents intend to address with greater taxation on the wealthy have remarkably little to do with "the government doesn't have enough money". They have to do with "taxes form economic incentives and the current set of incentives suck for everybody". An individual--yes, including Bill Gates--paying more taxes has marginal impact on the systemic issues of high-end under-taxation. Had the phrase not been co-opted by dirtbags, we'd probably file the act you are asking your "Democrat friends" about under...wait for it...virtue signaling.
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So what are you then, dgut? You seem to believe society is divided up between great men who do and lesser men who serve. Are you a top or a bottom? Ubermensch or Untermensch?
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But you can't turn a large amount of stock into 100% cash through a loan, either. Many banks will give you <<100% of the stock value in cash, but no bank will give you close to 100% of the value[1]. You get to pay interest on the cash loan, too, which makes it worse than a pile of cash.

The scams, as far as I can see, relate to the bank overvaluing the collateral or its liquidity, which is rightly the bank's fault, so it's reasonable that they bear the risk and get screwed. Unless it's a pure scam though, the lendee gets screwed too, by losing the collateral (and a lot more of it than necessary, if it's liquidated at short term lows).

[1] Unless the bank is playing the bubble game of collecting interest on the loan and not caring if the loan defaults or the underlying asset drops below the outstanding loan amount (could be either because they anticipate a bailout, or they already got fat salaries and bonuses and don't care if bank goes down in flames, but most of that kind of fiduciary irresponsibility is punished by regulations).
On what basis is health care a human right?

I would claim that rights either provide some protection to the ruling class (the right to life means not executing unpopular leaders) or are derived from other rights.

So in this case, we could claim the right to life provides the basis for the right to health care.

Note the right to life is not absolute, e.g. capital punishment and military drafts (being forced into life-threatening situations at gunpoint.)

But googling "on what basis is health care a human right?" yields nothing convincing on the pro side, i.e. they all just assume health care is a human right.

>HEALTH is a human right. When people are not able to access the healthcare they need, especially if this is for reasons of cost, their human rights are denied.

Continuing...

>Universal health coverage is built on principles of equity and fairness, with health services allocated according to people’s needs and the health system financed according to people’s ability to pay.

That statement has a familiar ring.

Here's an anti-right argument -

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1126951/

>To propose that health care be considered a human right is not only wrong headed, it is unhelpful. Mature debate on the rationing and sharing of limited resources can hardly take place when citizens start from the premise that health care is their right, like a fair trial or the right to vote.

I would test the rights argument with a few questions --

1) Would the right to health care justify certain impositions on the population, a la jury duty? Would governments have the right to draft people to work in medicine?

2) If we could keep someone alive forever at the cost of $1 bil/day, would we be required to do so?

3) Would the right to health care provide governments the justification to override market mechanisms?

Or said another way -

4) Would governments have to repeal anti-competitive laws that limit the supply of health care?
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I didn't think about it during the time. It's a fair comment, and probably true.

What it did really well (for me) was integrate HW with each lecture video, and start at a really basic foundation. It took me from 0 -> something.
Same, when out to dinner with friends, if I pay for everyone I will nag them to order the steak and every extra they might want, and if someone is paying for me I will try to pick something worth less than what they would have picked for themselves. I'm pretty sure they used to make menus with no prices for people like me. (It is common for my friends to also be generous and constantly try to get people to order more when they're the one paying. So I don't think this is a case of me being a Christlike figure of self-denial and the world being full of sharks. Economists just may not know enough good people.)
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GM lost $3.9bn last year.

There is a reason GM, Audi, Daimler etc are shifting to electric vehicles.
> By "at scale", I mean building abstractions on top of commonly used html elements and making them interactive,

This sounds like double-speak. That's not what at scale refers to, even allowing a very loose definition.

How the HTML is generated is moot. Server side templates had re-usability at a "component" level.
iFrames exist, redirects exist.

I'm not saying all JS is bad. I'm saying too may new people seem to think JS in and of itself is magic and there is no other way to generate/manipulate the DOM or talk to other computers.

I'm bailing out of this conversation now because you're heavily conflating HTML, browser functionality and www fundamentals with website builders(i don't know why you felt the need to qualify it with "professional")

> Even HN has JavaScript for that little bit of interactivity (collapsing comments).

Yeah no, "even HN" works perfectly with JS blocked. JS for HN is an enhancement, not a requirement. They understand how the web can work...
When I was there (2005-6), there were many layers of management between me, a developer, and Terry Semel, CEO (IIRC, it was more than 10, possibly even 15.) Often it was like working in Brazil (the film).
the basics of turning, carving, moguls, maintaining your speed etc wont necessarily feel analogous to skateboarding but the more advanced concepts especially when it comes to things like pipe & rails will feel pretty natural. the most fundamental difference imo is that skating pretty much all happens in your feet while you really have to throw your whole body to do anything on a snowboard.
Why wouldn't customer base or supplier relationships be any less a part of the legitimate market valuation?
The Material Design guidelines have terrible advice. There is way too much animation (bad for accessibility), and unbelievably garish color recommendations. Google's own implementation of MD have no aesthetic restraint and they are making their products unpleasant to use. The basic idea of MD is fundamentally flawed, because UIs shouldn't simulate physical motion for accessibility reasons.
Photoshop is a steaming pile though
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I swear, like 50% of Google Image results come from Pintrest. They are all mostly stolen/reposts too. It's incredibly annoying.
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Amazon Prime doesn't sound like much either, does it?
It's clearly an asymmetric consent system, designed to make it harder to whitdraw consent. These are forbidden explicitly under GDPR.
I grew up waterskiing, so when I moved to the mountains, I thought I'd pick up snow skiing easily.

I did o.k., but after a few years I still hadn't gotten that "flow".

After a few years of skiing, I tried boarding and got "flow" the second day when there was 12 inches of fresh pow, even though I still sucked at it.

Immediately switched and haven't looked back. Several years later, it dawned on me that waterskiing is done on a single ski, so it is much closer to snowboarding. Your feet are just at a different angle. Seems obvious in hindsight.
Seems to me they're being mindful consumers.
I would be quite useful for this conversation to see what the wages/overtime pay and stock options are for past employees and new hires. Without that the conversation is just wild speculation and not really worth pursuing.
>"If me and 10,000 people want a waste treatment plant we can individually chip in. But, in that case defecting would be so common that it's unlikely to be built."

Ok, but my point is limited to the fact that taxes only serve a purpose when people will not voluntarily fund a project. So this agrees with me.

It delusional to think taxes are something more than a government taking your money and spending it on stuff (which may or may not benefit you).

>"Now, if you disagree feel free to start a build a wall fund. It can work for specific kinds of things where donations feel good."

I could personally care less whether there is a wall or not. It seems irrelevant beyond as a symbol that immigration laws are being enforced.
Was it Nietzsche who said such similar things in one of his books? We are born as indentured servants to the state. The state let's us live as long as we continue to pay our debt which is called euphemistically "tax." The implicit agreement between the baby and the state is that the state promises to protect and to create pleasant environment for the baby to live a healthy and happy life. It's no surprise that we keep our side of the agreement and pay our taxes but the state never completely keeps his promises. Under these circumstances it would be useless to talk about human rights.
It seems like Google always gets in it's own way and this is no exception. They need to stop with this nonsense and bring back apps that are actually useful like Google Reader and improving apps that folks use everyday like Gmail and Google Maps. When is the last time one of these apps had a memorable and compelling new feature?
No, I mean LARP. Like "live action role playing." That's what they're doing. They've been around for 20 years for heavens sake!

I know about Rigetti; same adjective. I've been yacking with Dyakonov and other such people, as I'm writing a long, long thing on the topic.

Yeah, OK, the National Academy of Sciences has put together a panel of quantum computing guys who came to the conclusion that building actual quantum computers in the near future is unlikely: must be a conspiracy!
Snowboarding is faster to pick up because the approach you take to the sport is different than for skiing.

Skiing is all about not falling. Falling on skis is no fun and results in having to walk up the slope to find your skis. After your first season, you'll often go entire years with only a fall or two. And those hurt, so you avoid them.

Snowboarding is a sport where you fall all the time, even as an expert. There are no consequences to doing so, apart from maybe picking your hat up, so the best plan is to simply go for it and see what happens. If you bite it, you bounce back up before you even come to a complete stop and keep going.

Naturally, it hurts a lot the first season. But you get good fast. I skied for like 10 years before picking up snowboarding. And I was better at snowboarding within the first season.
That sounds the exact opposite really - one is answerable to voters and while the other is capable of acting like a MLM organization that does nothing for the nominal cause except marketting.

Look at the old institutional system - they had loads of bad PR and were killed off - there may have been cynical reasons for doing so but it was held accountable.

Then look at all of the private "reparative therapy" and other opposite of helpful private organizations still around.

Not that being able to opt out isn't a big advantage but private bad ones can stick around way longer than public ones.
One “great” thing about Trump taking office has been all of the sunlight on the FBI/DOJ abuses. We already knew these surveillance systems would be abused, and now we have many evidences of smoking guns. Unfortunately right now the only places picking them up are conservative researchers. Don’t ask me why.

This quote is a verifiable fact and should frighten everyone:

> We know from Collyers report the FISA-702(16)(17) process was extraordinarily abused by verified “contractors” who had access to the FBI/NSA database. The rate of abuse was 85%. Meaning 85 out of every 100 FISA702 database searches were unauthorized and outside of compliance.[1]

It gets worse. The data was used/sold for political purposes by opposition researchers.

The whole thing stinks and it’s not a partisan issue. Anyone that cares about this stuff should be rallying around this news and demanding more information. Parties aside, this is serious.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/12/14/john-solomon...
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I was thinking the same about AOL. My cow-worker in the next cube still uses his aol email, as does an Aunt of mine. How to wring value out of it? is the question I suspect the VZ folks couldn't answer.

Not to ignore your point. IMO having been so thoroughly pwnd by various crackers over the years and with barely an apology to its users Yahoo Mail's surprisingly worth more than a liability, but less than a slap in the face with a fish.
From gitlab:

> ... your article will be accessible even if you're offline, as long as someone is reading (sharing) it.
Yes, but can I also not get any individual cookies that I could then collate with data from other sources?
It seems you have not researched permaculture. It uses very little resources compared to common industrial agriculture.

Edit: the article makes the argument that organic farming leads to increased deforestation. Permaculture incorporates trees into the production cycle.
Anyone who actually has written a slideshow from scratch knows that it's way more than 10 lines of code: you couldn't even do the CSS in that, let alone accessible HTML, responsiveness, etc. There's a lot of design and testing which goes into superficially simple-seeming components and it'd be irresponsible to take that on each time unless you have a really good business justification.
Check your mail headers as they will show what protocol and cipher was negotiated - you'll be able to see if it was actually 1.0 or 1.1 that was used.

If it was TLS 1.2, disable 1.0/1.1 again and check you still have that cipher available.
IMO it is a peculiar sort of Americanization that Catholic = Catholic Saint.
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Except diverse communities in Finland do not have significant achievement gaps with non-diverse communities.

Edit: After looking into it PISA stats, this is inaccurate. Must have heard this in a news story.

Edit 2: They do seem to do better than us with diversity - http://www.compareyourcountry.org/pisa/country/fin - but worse than OECD average.
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Lesswrong, until I learn about roko's basilisk
I'm a softbooter who has thought about switching over because I love carving more than any other aspect.

This guy [1] is basically my hero, and I'm slowly working towards it. My brother just got a custom board with 290mm waist width, I'm going to get a 320 or 330mm for my size 12 feet.

[1] https://youtu.be/cBo9bB1cXOo?t=111
> all of the sunlight on the FBI/DOJ abuses. We already knew these surveillance systems would be abused

creates secret police

secret police abuses citizens

What a twist.
I’ve only been to Warsaw once, a couple of years ago, but has a strong mental image of ~80s Polish urban landscape formed from Kieslowski’s movies, esp. the Dekalog (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekalog) Only the last photo in the set, of kids playing on an abandoned car in a grim apartment complex matched that image.

BTW, if you’ve never watched this series you absolutely should, esp, Dekalog 1 should be required watching for technical people, as an antidote to the hubris we sometimes feel in describing nature. Now that I have a son at that age, it strikes even closer!
Snowboarding absolutely is as fun as it looks, but don't underestimate how much it's going to hurt the day after. I've gone nearly a dozen times and I still end up bruised by the end of the day. Admittedly, I'm a bit clumsier than most, but I've never collided with another human being at least.

Also, I was surprised that the article didn't mention the one aspect that I actually found way harder than anything else to learn do reliably: going from sitting to standing on the board with your feet strapped in is HARD. I thought it was something I'd be able to learn through technique since I'm mostly in shape from a cardio perspective, but I just don't have the core strength to get up the proper way.

While I absolutely could never once manage to get up with my heels dug into the snow, I can easily get up from my toes. It sort of stinks though because I'm never facing downhill when I first get up, so I can't really see great downhill, but at least I know when people are coming behind me.

The obvious solution to the standing problem is just to fall less, but I haven't quite figured that out. So instead I've tried to do more lunges when I exercise. Probably won't be enough though.
The bigger story is they're getting rid of 44,000 employees (nearly a third of their workforce), with the first 10,000 taking voluntary buyouts right now. That's after a $4.5 Billion tax cut. Rather than invest in those engineers, they're outsourcing to offshore IT.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/veriz...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizons-severance-offer-goes-t...
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I literally go "Oh, OATH, never mind."

Same here. But then I also started skipping Medium links for their obnoxious 'let's make it official' sheets.

And as far as I understand, Oath is indeed not compliant with the GDPR, because the default action should be to not permit tracking (opt-in rather than opt-out). But IANAL.

It would be nice if link aggregation sites such as Hackernews or lobste.rs provided a flag to indicate whether a linked page can be read immediately or requires clicking through overlays of any kind, so that those of us who are not interested in that crap can just skip those links.

It would be nice if the web could just return to being hyperlinks between pages of text. Just don't track by default.
But that's a load of nonsense and I don't think it diminishes Aaron's memory to say so.

He wilfully, deliberately and with substantial premeditation broke the law. Having pretty much stated publicly he was going to and been caught and let off for a similar crime previously. He was bang to rights guilty.

However, he was then persecuted mercilessly and threatened with a sentence way out of proportion to the crime. He was hounded to his death for political brownie points and that's unforgivable.

But to suggest he was just a naughty schoolboy is inaccurate and unhelpful.
I maintain that we’ve been sliding very rapidly from a capitalistic society to a neo-feudal one. Rising inequality and companies increasingly interested in rent extraction over competition are the big giveaways.

The one thing I’m struggling to figure out is the vassal structure. Actual feudalism had all parties binding themselves to the next step up the chain in exchange for power and protection. Serfs are bound to minor lords who respond to greater lords who answer to the king. The closest structure I can identify is corporate hierarchies, but those are far too fluid compared to feudal nobility.
Appreciate the comment.

And,

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti...