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> Problem is, you kind of have to be elite to make it work. Four year varsity starter, state champion level basically.

Maybe at Stanford. Maybe at Ivies in certain highly competitive sports (e.g., rowing).

In most sports, simply being a recruitable athlete at a level lower than “power conference” but higher than NAIA (maybe?) is possible depending on the sport and/or specialty. In terms of skill, any high school with 1000+ students probably has 10-50+ students in this category — grades and/or lack of desire are often holding them back from a tertiary education of any kind. Said another way, that’s much lower than “state champion” level.

Again, knowing how to get recruited and having a coach who knows how to showcase talent for recruiters goes a long way. That said, it only helps, but is not required in most sports.

I’m really glad you mentioned running as an example. There are a ton of good track & field and cross-country folks who: 1) can improve significantly just by training well, and 2) are very recruitable at the Ivy League level. Want-to goes a long way.
In 2013, I could see that there were houses for sale in Vegas that cost less than a car payment. By 2015 I'd worked up the courage to buy one. I paid $143K. The previous owner had paid $85K.

One of the reasons I was able to get it for $142K was because I made a TON of offers. I basically walked around a housing complex and picked out a handful of identical homes, then made lowball offers on all of them.

Basically there was a TON of supply.

The home was so cheap, it created some bizarre challenges:

1) It was hard to find a lender. Banks don't want to deal with tiny loans.

2) It was hard to find a realtor. Nobody wants to do a deal where they're going to make peanuts on the commission.

I managed to get it all sorted out.

After just 25 months, I sold it. I liked the home, but I just wasn't using it. I'd pictured that my family and I would go to Vegas every few weeks, but we wound up going about once or twice a year. (This was a second home.)

When I put it up for sale, I had two offers the first day it was listed.

In my situation, I think some things that helped a lot were:

1) inventory in Vegas became tighter and tighter, as people are priced out of California. If you're moving from Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas, $143K seems like a bargain.

2) Builders in Vegas seem uninterested in smaller homes. The one that I sold was just 1200 square feet. Most homes in the neighborhood were at least as twice as big.

In summary: a classic case of "inexpensive home in nice neighborhood", plus a big helping of luck.
I can guarantee you many Chinese protestors you can see in US are protesting for political asylum. For them, protesting for is only a way to green card. Almost every Chinese Uber driver I met in SF are under political asylum
I mean, he or she is collecting images with their eyes and storing them in their brain. We're fine with that because it's only local storage--the police can't just plug a network cord into your security guard and suck out all the images and timestamps every hour.

I think facial recognition door systems are a fine idea if they can be implemented like a doorman: local storage only, carefully trained on local data. With current technology that would be impossible or extremely expensive, though.
2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892502

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9636141
I take 400mg before interviews when I'm job hunting. Unlike benzodiazepines, it doesn't seem to affect my problem solving ability at all. The effect is pretty mild compared to stronger anti-anxiety medication, but for me it seems to take my anxiety down a couple notches.

During a regular onsite interview, without l-theanine I might have some heart racing, and I might not be able to focus well enough to even understand what an interviewer is asking me. With l-theanine, the anxiety is still there but I can at least understand the problems I'm given.
In an email to Barron’s the head of the SIPC cast doubt on
the idea that it would insure checking or savings accounts.

“SIPC protects cash that is deposited with a brokerage firm
for one limited purpose...the purpose of purchasing
securities,” wrote Stephen P. Harbeck, the president and CEO
of SIPC. “Cash deposited for other reasons would not be
protected.”

https://www.barrons.com/articles/robinhood-app-is-offering-a...
For the same reason fast food wins in a competition with healthy food.
Its easy to eat, easy to find, it surprises you not at all, and its very bad for you.

There are not two sides to every issue, especially when it comes to espousing conspiracy theories, and fake news.

Pretending its about "why dont we just compete in the marketplace of ideas" is naive at best.
Very promising results!Look forward to seeing what’s in store for 2019.
Neither the article nor the Basis site answers the important question: do coin buyers get their money back, and if so, how?
IIRC rules such as out of office (I'm not sure "rules" really existed). Were client side only... the server didn't have the option (or at least it wasn't automatic) to evaluate bad rules / out of office.
Amazon raised the price of Prime, and so it was a good opportunity to question the value of it. Two day delivery is great but how often did I need something that quickly? Free delivery and ~5 days is fine. Prime Video seems to target baby boomers; there’s nothing that’s notable except for a few times a year when a hit movie appears and it certainly isn’t worth any amount to me. Amazon itself is a poor experience as I try to avoid doing business with unknown third parties. Whole Foods: after the acquisition I noticed that quality declined with brittle, smaller eggs and milk that expired sooner. Amazon hasn’t been in the best of light in the news in the past year or so. I remember a couple years ago thinking Amazon was the only respectable big tech company.

Then, there was a scheduled tissue package delivery that was “lost” by OnTrak. Amazon doesn’t automate the refund, you have to ask. Happened to be at Target and noticed that an 8 pack of 160 tissues each cost $12. I looked up amazon’s and it was $17 when bought, but all of a sudden it was now $13 — also only 120 tissues each box. Why the shadiness? It’s great that you have pricing power, but I wouldn’t want to do business with a coffee shop where I walk in and the barista says, “Bob’s here! Jack up the price!” Amazon feels like some legal version of Wolf of Wallstreet.

Anyway, it’s all just anecdotal. At the end of the day I just don’t trust them.

Edit: I’ve been off Prime 2 months and don’t miss it.
My largest criticism of our oneness with phone is that, no matter how responsible you are with them, they removes you from being fully present.

For consumption of media--which most people use it for--it's like sitting down and opening a book or paging through a magazine. When you're with others, it immediately puts you into a private space that your mind is attempting to connect to, disconnecting from the present.

It's counter to mindfulness. Even when you open up your phone for just 10 seconds to check on something, you're distracting yourself from being present--regardless of how responsible you are with it.

That said, I don't have any problems with hanging out with friends or family and reading a book. I've done that my whole life, but it's not appropriate for times when you're trying to actively be there and have a connection with them.

There's little difference between having a friend pull our a book or their phone when trying to watch a movie together, but our phones are so intertwined with who we are, it's easy to not see it that way.
Very promising results. Look forward to seeing what’s in store for 2019!
Social media are designed to be as addictive as possible. Smartphones have replaced a great number of tools and devices. At the end of the day it's up to the individuals to not spend a lot of time on their phones, but, I can see it's hard for most people. At least around me (including myself). Another thing I've noted is the exhaustion experienced after spending a long time on your smartphone.
Or never leave your place with modern remote work and anything can be delivered ethos.
Kind of funny but I remember 3% rate being kind of normal for a checking account in the early 90s. Of course inflation and Fed was higher back then too.

What I don't understand is those people who willingly park their money in CDs at under 1% and the banks proudly advertising these rates.

This era of seemingly permanent low(or even negative) rates just somehow seem unnatural.

What happened to banker's 6-3-3 rule? "Lend at 6%, borrow at 3% and go golfing at 3:00PM"
This is why languages with properties are fantastic. If you find that you would rather have a getter than a member variable, you just change it to a property. You get all the backwards-compatibility of getters without paying the development cost of them up front.
This is an argument from personal experience - just because you cant see yourself do it doesnt mean it isnt happening to others.

Clearly since flat earthers continue to exist, your logic is broken.
Only because of the way large companies shaped the web. It doesnt have to be this way.
There are 3 services in my area.

Amazon Fresh: This was their pre-acquisition play and has a lot of items not sourced from Whole Foods, and some items that are, but you won't find items like Whole Foods store made sandwiches.

Prime Now - Amazon: This is more like extremely fast(1 to 2 hours) shipping for a very limited set of Amazon.com items. Has a few fresh grocery items but the range is quite limited.

Prime Now - Whole Foods: You can only order items that are present at a central Whole Foods location. Directly competes with Instacart
Seems like a high risk investment if you aren't sitting put for a long time. If you plan on living in the house for a decade or more, the chances of you losing money seem pretty low. But people are less likely to sit put in one job or area these days than in the past, and there are external factors too, like potentially being laid off and needing to sell or move for another job.

So as an actual investment tool in the short term, housing seems like it could be risky, but if you are looking for a place to put down roots, you would almost surely be coming out ahead.
It isn't a science. It doesn't delve into natural laws. Quantum computing, like computer science, is mathematics. The applied versions of quantum computing and computer science is engineering. One of my professor's biggest pet peeves was the misnomer "computer science". He always said that he was a mathematician and not a scientist. Turing was a mathematician, not a scientist.
I lived in Las Vegas for two years, and loved it. I don't drink or gamble, and I was born and raised in Brooklyn for context. I loved biking, hiking, climbing, kayaking, and skiing there. It's sunny almost all year long, and this had a great affect on my attitude. The restaurants, malls, and other off-The-Strip amenities are what you are used to in most East coast suburban areas. There is music and art being made there, and flying in and out of McCarran airport is as easy as it gets. I saw the movie 'Free Solo' three weeks ago, and it shows Alex settling in to a house he bought with his girlfriend in Las Vegas. Really good movie BTW.
This is ultimate proof that so called "smart money" is often lazy and dumb.

Plowing $133m into a bad idea based off a white paper, when anybody could have told you it'd inevitably implode based on common logic outlined by others in the comments here....
High Leverage #3: Modern On-Prem with Replicated’s Grant Miller
I regularly go to a restaurant run by some Falun Gong refugees, and I've spent a fair bit of time, while waiting, perusing their pamphlets and books. To be honest, my feeling has been exactly the same as yours - while, from my very first interaction, I was aware that Falun Gong were persecuted in China, and while I don't really have a rosy picture of what that entails, their political writing and pampletting is just really awfully put together, especially for a western audience. They're full of gruesome paintings of torture that, you know, are paintings, so come across as melodramatic - even when you're pretty sure that torture is part and parcel of persecution, and you find it hard to imagine the chinese state _not_ torturing at least some Falun Gong. That's kind of what happens with all their material. You start looking at the people handing it out, and it's pretty obvious they've had a very hard time at the hands of the Chinese state, but then after reading it, you feel less convinced than if they'd handed you nothing at all.
It's not only a problem with the search engines' own rankings, it's also that people are less likely to click an older article on the SERP.
What a great question!

I know that the xBox is named after DirectX.

If DirectX is named after Mode X, then the Xbox owes it's name to Abrash.
What? Because the feature you want is not there, development has stalled?

There is lots of useful things you can do without C. Also, it has not stalled:

https://youtu.be/sI6Z21ljXsw
This is the I-9 I've used before:

https://www.jobs.irs.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg-uploads...

Interestingly enough I can't fill it out in Firefox, but I can with Preview.app. Running pdfinfo -js yielded some script, but it basically only looks like it's there as a gatekeeper so that you don't open the file with an older version of Reader. Is there more JS in there that pdfinfo can't extract?
That's odd. I've always had the option for partial direct deposit (redirect a fixed $ amount or redirect a fixed % from each check to different accounts). Even my college job at a café had that option (to be fair, the checks were from the state comptroller's office, so the same system used to pay all state employees).

My last employer even let me choose if I wanted monthly, bimonthly, or biweekly paychecks.

[Edit: I shouldn't say that it's odd. It just runs counter to my experiences is all.]
I’m not sure what story I’m thinking of. The pictures and events don’t look right, but some Wikipedia lists about disasters don’t include anything else in Texas that’s the right size.

The story I’m thinking of, the captain knew the coal was burning before he docked, and went into port anyway to try to salvage the cargo. The subsequent explosion was due to material on other boats.

I may have heard about this around the Tianjin explosion but more likely when they were fighting the new coal depots on the west coast, someone brought it up while talking about coal self igniting.
> SIPC does not protect against a decline in value of your assets.

Neither does FDIC, right? Still doesn't explain what FDIC "blanket" coverage offers that SPIC doesnt
It seems no one is watching porno. Can anyone tell he/she do?
That’s like saying Arnold and Carl are standing waist deep in a pool of gasoline. Arnold has 4000 matches, Carl has 300. Who’s going to survive the fire?
Why do you say it takes away the impact?

The black and white reads to me as a way to pull out the distractions, to focus only on the form.
Whoa, how did they get a pic of Dave Chappelle!? https://static1.squarespace.com/static/561bb57ae4b0357b729e1...
And this video with even more information, including future directions.

https://youtu.be/sI6Z21ljXsw
I cannot tweak Firefox on iOS therefore I cannot safely use it.
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Same here, I truly don't understand how they got away with it.
Why do Waymo self-driving vans get so much hate?
> Or is something different for this administration?

lol...settle down Beavis.
Stack Overflow for Enterprise
> but most of it is meaningless noise then we will have less freedom than before

What does this mean? In concrete, practical, down-to-earth sense?

> we cannot be sure the any information we perceive is trustworthy

This point was already made ages ago. Most famously, by ancient Greek skeptics, and by Descates’ cogito. We live in a world where anything may turn out to be untrustworthy. But we somehow cope, and chug along just fine.
It's never them, it's always the "other" people that need to be "protected" from "toxic" content.

Having said that, fake news and conspiracy theories have played a major role in setting the groundwork for the Holocaust, so there's a valid argument to be made there. I wouldn't want the people writing/reading Vox to make the call though.
There is a massive segment of the movie market (primarily aimed at children) where the starring characters are anthropomorphised animals which live rich inner lives and are self-aware. This is almost Pixar/Disney and Dreamworks entire very successful business model.

So I don't think it is really so hard for most of us to imagine ...
They can sit empty for a long time, becoming unkempt eyesores and possibly methlabs. Vacant property is not a positive.
>And they do get away with it. All so I can buy a phone for 20% less that it would cost to manufacture in my own country. A few million dead, disfigured, tortured, scarred, raped. Billions living under thought control. Chump change to keep my clothes dirt cheap so the Walton family can buy a few more islands in the Caribbean while Jeff Bezos accumulates enough money to buy the moon.

Are you really saying that if US President had balls to push China on human rights then China would retaliate by refusing to produce cheap phones and clothes for US? Or say Russia would stop selling the oil?
For many use cases, it a bad idea for a calculator program to use floating point, rather some more exact representation.

However if you do use floating point, then the kind of dangers you point out make my point even stronger. You could conceivably embed the `calc_div` function in a larger system that knew about pre-validating for div0. But if you want to deal with all possible sources of FP weirdness when doing division, then you really need to concentrate it in the "division expert": i.e. have calc_div pre validate all that stuff, and have its caller accept that errors are a normal result.
I think comparing the watch removal to the phone removal would really drive the point home - I don't think you see a lot of couples checking their watches at the same time.

I think I get the point your making - a phone is a tool, and useful, like watches and hammers. But watches, hammers, and even books aren't designed to make you addicted to them. Lots of things on phones are.

And lots of things on phones aren't... but the most addictive aspects are the most prevalent.
Assumption is correct.
Orbiting a planet is basically free fall with translational velocity. If the earth were flat we would fall down and horizontally and eventually hit the ground.

However the earth is a sphere and the direction of the free-fall constantly adjusts itself to point towards the center of the sphere creating an orbit.

It is literally throwing oneself at the ground and missing.
It seems impossible to point cameras face high at a property line, but not capture images from beyond the property line. If you have a sidewalk in front of your yard, the difference between being on your property or not is like a foot. You're going to capture every single person who walks by.

That's obviously fine for you, the property owner, camera operator, and a very reasonable person. But, imagine every house working that way as you walk around your neighborhood. Is everyone as reasonable as you?
FDIC insurance exists for a reason. It prevents runs on the bank. There will be a time of financial crisis in the future and anyone with a Robin Hood account will flee for an FDIC guaranteed account. The run on liquidity will probably destroy the institution.
just a minor nitpick: the technical definition of murder is the unlawful killing of another. in most cases, the killing of animals is not unlawful and therefore can't really be called murder. also depending on the source of the definition, murder more specifically refers to the unlawful killing of a human, specifically. if you remove the need for it to be a human then there certainly can be cases of killing animals that count as murder, for instance killing endangered species, or hunting without a permit/hunting a species out of season, or the killing of an animal with clear malice (eg animal abuse). but still, for most intents and purposes, the killing of animals can't really be called murder because the majority of animal death is merely to provide food and as such is most certainly not unlawful.
For 'dot', I was considering more the machine inter-relationshps. Given ip addresses and subnets and interfaces in the configuration files, these relationships can be diagrammed given the 'sources of truth'.

SaltStack files have state files (commands and general configs) controlled by a 'top' file which lists hosts and their configurations. SaltStack files have pillar files (configuration parameters and values unique to device being configured) controlled by a 'top' file which lists hosts and the parameters. These relationships could be mapped by dot as a visual path through relationships.

Making a giant leap into the realm of general documentation, in a similar vein, document various pieces of the work flow as separate entities, where the documented entities may be common to several different work flows. Workflows then become linked version of various entities. And dot can generate work flow diagrams.

This all requires organization and effort. In hindsight, I've suggested doing documentation as though you are writing a software program. I'm not sure if tooling exists to do such a thing.

Take it all with a grain of salt. So to speak.
I think the parent comment was sarcastically implying that of course Whole Foods is going to deliver their own groceries now that they are part of Amazon.
It's quite clickbaity. I clicked on it and I was disappointed.
Why does YouTube think I want to watch "Student Shuts Down Social Justice Warrior College Professor"?

I'm conservative(ish) in a fiscal sense, but don't read conservative news (because it sucks), don't search for conservative topics (nor really any political topics), and am not interested in any alt-right or political conflict type videos. Yet a smattering of this kind of thing often winds up in sidebar suggestions.

I can't help but feel it's a bit of a fishing expedition to determine political alignment. Probably paranoid though and it's more like conflict gets eyeballs to serve ads to. Which is a statement on human nature more than Google. Who knows, but it is annoying.
There is also Stack Overflow for Enterprise: https://stackoverflow.com/enterprise
I love Schwab's checking account product because it's highly functional. But, I don't think that it has mass-market appeal. It appeals to a rational buyer, not an emotional one.

The opportunity here for a startup bank is to replace credit card spending in the USA. The potential earnings are huge if you can get consumers to spend on a debit card instead of a credit card (because the rake is higher).

To make a checking account capture the spending market in the USA, it needs to feel premium and focused - like the Amex app. The spending analysis needs to be great, the card needs easy control in the mobile app, and it needs to inspire confidence. It also needs to feel like a trusted, approachable brand.

Schwab makes most of their money on investments. I don't foresee them trying to give mass-market appeal to their checking account, separate from the investment account.

A case study in this field is Marcus, a savings app from Goldman Sachs. If Schwab spun out their checking account into a separate sub-brand with branding that appeals to millennials and had a spending-focused mobile app, I could see them doing really well: https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings