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> I might dust them out for an hour or two but the novelty goes away quickly

This has been my experience as well. Over the last few years over and over again I'll start games I've played before but within an hour or two I've lost interest in playing. I remember enough of the overall plot and mechanics that the only thing that still sticks out to me is the repetitive, grindy bits of the game (and all games have them). A few times I've turned to cheating to level characters, unlock stuff, bypass all the grind parts and just enjoy the story or game mechanics, but even then it's not as interesting as it used to be.
You can prevent people from becoming drug users by not jacking rents up so high that they're forced on to the streets.
... Unless you would prefer to skip the extra keypress required for ".
Contractors pay income tax.
I've noticed Wittgenstein is mentioned quite a lot on HN threads about philosophy. I suspect he's a favorite of engineer types because his conceptions nullify large swaths of philosophical activity and thinking. This conclusion allows the untrained student to feel as if they've entered a cheat code to reach the end of the discourse -- it's all a language game, so I need not waste my time with further inquiry.
You're not getting anything in return until you sell your home in any other circumstance (beyond leasing a room or the entire residence and hoping you can make a profit) anyway, what's the difference between higher property tax to pay for transit and higher property taxes to pay for, say, police pensions? Points to Chicago's property tax/pension nightmare
I disagree. In an election with 2 historically unpopular candidates, for one of them to win 3 million more votes sounds like consensus to me.
Tesla haters are parking their pickup trucks at Tesla Supercharger stations
My impression is that "left" is used synonymously with the Democratic party and "right" with the Republican party in practically all American media. By this popular understanding, calling the New York Times right wing makes no sense, as it's very clearly allied itself with the Democratics.
The Democratic party has been just as dedicated to the corporate and military status quo as the Republican party. The two parties only differ practically on social wedge issues.
NFL launches first standalone voice app ‘A Rookie’s Guide to the NFL’ for Alexa
That's something you notice immediately when you get to places in Southern CA like Santa Barbara. People look super healthy. Part is probably weather but part is certainly money.
At least half of this statement is just objectively wrong.
So, this reminds me of a nuclear meltdown vs. the constant pollution form a coal power plant nearby a city. Even with one of those single, ugly, massive failures they could still very well cause fewer deaths.
Our workplace had 9 for outside line and someone accidentally called 911. It was changed to 2 after that happened.
would you like to stake some ether on the claim that's it's never going to happen? I'm willing to bet 10 Ether we see POS before the end of 2021..
I did my own version of the lenticular 3D this as hobby project. You need quite a high resolution (density) display. You also need to configure the output very accurately so that it corresponds to the final desired image for each eye. Because of how an LCD displays color you this is an even more complex translation.

However the advantage of eyetracked lenticular over "The looking glass" would be resolution. (there might be other FOV and effect distance advantages as well)
As someone who spent a bit of time in that industry the best way I've been able to describe it is a production schedule that looks like film but with a financial structure closer to the music industry.

Your studio gets an 'advance' on development with milestones and the like. Only after you've paid back your advance + more do you start seeing royalties come to the studio. That advance allotment also usually includes the marketing budget which can be as much or more than the studio dev cost.

Studio employees are usually a tier below that as well, in my time I never saw a penny of royalties, bonuses or the like. Combined with a pay that's 40-70% below standard dev rates it's not really a great industry if you live in a high cost of living area.
This is a weird objection. Import statements have nothing to do with whether a language is interpreted or compiled. It's just a matter of which names the language designers decide should be imported automatically.
At the end of the day, it's a form of wealth distribution for the benefit of society (military, police, etc). If you cut corporate taxes, how do you compensate for that amass of wealth? Also remember that currently a company can "own" a bank account that people do tend to tap into for personal gain (although technically against the law). As a moderate, I'd only be open to removing business tax IF businesses are unable to own any profits. This basically just means the business tax gets effectively rolled into a form of personal income tax. I haven't thought about this before, so I'm not sure what the outcome could be.

Alternatively, there's the Henry George system which seems to be getting some interest again. My main issue with this system is that so much "goods" are virtual now being software and information... even virtual land has real value today. I haven't seen a good explanation of how Henry George's system of taxing the 'finite' resources could be adopted to our (still vastly growing) digital age and digital assets.
From reading all two minutes of the article:

> The new plan could be completed in 15 to 20 months
it's slightly off topic but I used Doxygen for my Hexagon Library written in c# [0] and was quite content with it - aside from Generic Classes with Different Parameters ( GenericClass<T> and GenericClass<T1,T2> ) not working properly - maybe I just was too stupid. I liked the ease of use compared to the other code doc generators I tried. However rendered comments inside the IDE would be so much better, it's kind of crazy when I think about it that that is not a feature of Visual Studio (but a 3D-Editor is...)

[0] https://aurelwu.github.io/
You need to control 2/3rds of the stake and be able to coordinate decisions with each staking node before the block time is over to fuck up the network. Considering that PoS can enable more tunable block times as validators no longer will churn out random numbers on GPUs/ASICs to mine a new block, I think this will be a non-issue.
"aren't you a little too old to not have learned your manners yet?"
Again, not about me, it's about the argument, and there's a great one in the article itself, as well as throughout the comments here. Stop focusing on me, start focusing on the arguments. If I'm not making a good argument, why are you replying?
It's definitely not bluster, he fired his Secretary of Defense over his refusal to pull out of the conflict. It's one of the most consequential decisions of his tenure so far.
Have you signed up for EthDenver 2019?

I met a lot of crypto startups there.
I have one of these and it's a very cool effect. Looking at a single image, the resolution seems impossibly low. But as VR developers discovered, getting the brain to accept an image is much more dependent on the "solidity" of the image than on the resolution or texture detail, and this device nails that. Plus with a moving image, your brain is good at integrating texture information over time and your experience will feel merely "grainy" and not super blocky.
You realize the words "stunning" and "brilliant" are subjective, right? Your "standard practice" here is both incredible AND the first time ever done in this scenario to achieve something brand new in space travel. Not sure why you need to tell people not to like things, but it's a really bad habit you should break.
I can attest to this. Having worked in an finance shop myself, there were numerous .NET engineers there but none of which had relevant experience with Angular/React + Typescript.
How many average people playing the games know of these people?

How many average people watching movies recognize Tom Cruise?
I don't understand. You're saying you didn't make that justification ("it's legal, so it's ethical") immediately followed by that statement, almost verbatim ("following laws is considered ethical").

Of course ethics are subjective. But voicing those ethics is how we arrive at a set of societal values in the first place! It's crazy to suggest that anyone complying with the law should be immune from criticism.
Is this really a classic example when the article states:

The alternative plan was recommended by a panel of experts convened by Mr. Cuomo, who called the new design a “major breakthrough’’ that had been used in Europe but had not been tried in this country.

“What these people have designed is the first of its kind in the United States of America,’’ said the governor who was joined by the engineering experts who had come up with the plan.
Yes that was my main point ;)
... or use Babel, learn to write in es6+, and read the es5 output.
>A lot of people sitting on inefficiently used land would also be driven to sell (and their bungalow could be demolished and replaced with apartments, increasing supply).

One problem with this is that a lot of land owners have been in the city for decades and their property tax rates are protected under Prop 13 [0]. Basically their tax rates get adjusted for inflation but aren't reassessed unless ownership changes or there's significant construction. Raising tax rates won't touch these people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13
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Ohio is basically a few hundred miles of corn, soybeans, and woods. It's not continuous urban sprawl.

Source: I grew up in the middle of it.
Can coal be a net zero emission fuel?
Some people. Remember that the demographic changes by about 750k each year (grim reaper and new cohort entering electorate).

Remember also that the majority of degree educated people under 50 voted against this. I'm not seeing any decrease in polarisation whichever way it goes.

Where I live, many people depend on the automotive supply chain. This is not a case of boutique cheese for us, it is a case of mass unemployment. I've lived through one of those episodes.
Great examples and I had never thought to consider the origin, or even relatedness, of the N11 numbers. Thank you for the reference!

You are correct, I should have said handset. I'm not sure if this is common, but with the involvement of cellphones in the house my family began referring to any handset in the house as "the landline."

Example: "Can you grab the landline in the kitchen, I'm on the cell."
I've noticed there is also big group of viewers who can't stand silence.
Personally i think its the accessibility of year round outdoor activities (surfing, biking, etc)
> It's surprising that even when mental health is an issue, that these don't lead to some sort of court-ordered treatment.

Involuntarily restraining someone has a very high bar--harm to self or others. Rightfully, "being a nuisance" doesn't really cross that bar.

Someone with Alzheimer's and no family is a good test--when do you force them into a facility? And what kind of facility? And how do you pay for that? And is that actually an improvement to their life?
> Everyone seems to think it's normal and perfectly fine to wait 30+ minutes

My New Yorker friends also think that queuing 30+ minutes for a trendy place is normal.
i can run POS node on a medium instance from AWS.
>It's unclear why that money would be owed to the US ethically

The company is headquartered there, the IP was developed there, the founders were educated there, the core technology that made their company possible was funded by US tax payers, the safe environment that makes business possible is secured by police and military funded by US tax payers, etc
Texas is unique in another way. It's electrical system is not interconnected with the rest of the nation. https://www.nerc.com/AboutNERC/keyplayers/Documents/NERC_Reg...
One note about the twitter choice to put their HQ at mid-market. The city wanted it, they incentivized businesses moving to the mid-market area with tax breaks.
I have done this. Regardless of when you do the move everybody who works in the repo being moved is down for several hours at best if you do it during working hours.
Is there an example of another country undertaking a project like this?

Also, "just dig another tunnel" is not a simple proposition in Manhattan, ridiculous cost of the Second Avenue tunnel aside.
Honestly, I can't imagine a job that is interesting or well-paying enough to be worth having to live in the bay area or SV.
Sometimes this is th'e case, yes, sometimes it is not.

An example: http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/book/Algori... Page 15

> It’s quite easy to show that the singing time is Θ(n2); in particular,the singer mentions the name of a gift ∑ni=1i=n(n+1)/2times (counting thepartridge in the pear tree).

I'm pretty sure that I still remember how to read the formula and I even know what does Θ(n2) means, but it's still unclear for me how do we get n^2 and this formula from the "NDaysOfChristmas(gifts[2..n]):" example.
> Yet the previous statement seemed to have been made quite simply

Exactly; OP makes a simple, matter-of-fact statement, and then proceeds to say "nothing is that simple" when they get challenged? Seems like a double standard to me.
> We both love our work so quitting isn't exactly helpful.

This sticks out to me, as it seems to be a false dilemma. Maybe you can work it out without either quitting, but having one of you quit is a real solution that you shouldn't throw out the window. After all, I'm sure you both love each other more than your work. Big life changes can be hard. (We got rid of our home internet, despite the fact that my whole employment relies on the internet.) But they're doable and shouldn't be dismissed so quickly.
If you read John Varley's Titan series or Neal Stephenson books like Seveneves they regularly call LaGrange points "L2", "L4", etc. I called it a lasso because, if you look at the diagram, it literally looks like a lasso.
>it has established in US law that API interfaces themselves are a copyright/protected concept

Only in the Federal Circuit, which adjudicates cases involving patent law. Copyright cases are typically decided by the other courts of appeal, and there is precedent in those courts (like Lotus v Borland) against the copyrightability of interfaces.
Hey! I’d actually say that’s a... reflection on your friend. I thought for a couple hours about whether to reply to this comment, and I ultimately decided that writing maintainable or readable code in any language is the engineer’s primary responsibility. So if nobody could maintain this person’s code after they were done with it, maybe they were truly brilliant, but not so good on the “raise up the others who come after me” part of engineering :/
They did. SF wanted someone, anyone to take over the abandoned former mall and do something that wouldn't be adding to the blight of the area. Twitter was otherwise about to leave SF for somewhere on the peninsula.
Then you don't understand the word consensus. It's also interesting you quote the raw differental - "a two percent difference" sounds much less compelling.
I like the idea but am not fond of the execution, particularly around the aesthetics.

One of the reasons I love Python is because of it's syntactic brevity and conciseness, once you get to intermediate python there are some weird forms of syntactic sugar (magic functions and unpacking for instance) but visually the language has less clutter than most popular languages. Coconut really just seems to remove that aspect.
Games have the equivalent of directors who receive millions, like Sid Meier, Tim Sweeny, John Carmack, Gabe Newell, Markus Persson.

And movies have the equivalent of underpaid overworked devs: extras and grips and so on.
> Victorian houses on hills make SF one of the most beautiful city in the US in my opinion.

From a distance, they look beautiful. Up close, most are sort of gross looking and not well maintained. You’d think the cost of taking care of a little house would be negligible compared to the price of the house itself.
Definitely! Everyone here agrees that they need to prove themselves effective, and there is more work to do there. I think Geoff's point that the parent poster disagrees with is that it isn't necessary to completely understand every single aspect of the model's weights in order to be able to empirically validate it as safe.
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Very disappointing, like why bother doing ADTs if you aren't going to do them right and have exhaustive pattern matching.
Correct. And they do so by working within the cross-national legal frameworks, and the Netherlands lets them get away with this because they want (to torture the analogy) the Starbucks subsidiary to be doing business at all in their country, and they fear if they started taxing name royalties Starbucks would pack up and leave, taking their franchise rights and the jobs they bring with them.

... and that's before we even touch on the ethical framework around which anybody gets to charge any taxes at all on "right to a name;" the companies we're talking about are already paying sales tax, real estate tax for land, payroll taxes, etc., etc., etc.

... it comes back to the ethics and morality of "Can you tax intangible goods" in the first place, and that's where things get really exciting. For what is the value of a piece of software, and how do you measure it? ;)
>what paradigm shift needs to happen before breaches stop being depressingly common,

Reduce the value of a breach.

That is to say: minimize the records kept, minimize the amount of correlation that can be done between multiple sets of records (both internally and across multiple parties), minimize the damage a user can do to themselves or others at every single level of authorization.

>and why isn't that shift happening?

A subject's anonymity and independence are all antithetical to the system's profitability (and often to ease of development).

Finally: no one can steal surveillance records that don't exist. Maybe we think about ending the ubiquitous surveillance of the US population?
I've listened to some albums for 20 years. I've inherited some vinyl from my mom that's 50 years old. There are some movies I've watched dozens of times.

So I wouldn't jump to that conclusion so quickly.
Pretty hard, not only is it nearly impossible to get documentation for some of the hardware, even if you get it it'll usually be under some kind of NDA which means you can publish the driver. Then there's all kinds of errata and hardware quirks that aren't going to be in the documentation (maybe in future updates to the documentation) it ends up a full time job for multiple people to maintain just a single driver for a few products.
I spent about a month or so tinkering with Diaspora and I feel your pain. Wherever free speech is paramount, it comes at a price. Some people feel that free speech and free "expression" shouldn't be free. I have rarely circled back to my Diaspora account since discovering similar disturbing images/messages.

If it's helpful to you, there are many other decentralized networks. So far as I can tell, Mastodon has better moderation controls that can block entire instances. It doesn't stop bad things from happening. The only confort I can gleam from that is that those who do/say terrible stuff do so at the risk of being seen and discovered.
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These are not mutually exclusive thoughts. "The political and tax system that allows it" is often the product of lobbying funded by huge corporations in order to create massive loopholes. This allows them to pay what many consider to be an unfairly low amount in taxes.

It entirely allowed to both hate the tax system AND hate the corporate cronyism that created it.

Also your "if you blame the company..." scenario is, at best, a weak comparison. It would be akin to living and working in New Jersey, a highly taxed state, and instead shifting your assets to be taxed as if you live in Florida where there is no personal income tax.
Practically every open space in Seattle hosts an unauthorized homeless encampment.

Many downtown workers (including me) have to step over or around garbage, feces, used needles, tents, sleeping bags, passed out junkies/drunks, and so on, every time they come to work or leave their office. Not to mention the odors.
> but ultimately [the NYT is] a big budget right wing PR operation, intent on preserving the status quo.

I think that's misleading, bordering on libel. Even this article cited cases (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy...) where the NYT ran stories that challenged powerful interests and the status quo, directly against the personally stated wishes of a conservative president.

The truth is that things are more complicated than black and white. Some might be disappointed that the NYT doesn't always gleefully poke at the eyes of a particular power whenever it can, but like every human and human organization, it doesn't always live up to its own ideals or the ideals that have been applied to it.
By my standard because if you included my full quote you would see my blame included the government as well. Transferring more money from the corporation to the government doesn't magically solve anything.

I find it interesting that you see it as "championing corporate tax avoidance" instead of pointing out the failure of government to correctly control taxes. Perhaps we can debate how the money is actually spent on civic issues as that is probably more productive than who spends it.
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If you want some semi-reasonable and informed commentary, the Twitter account 2nd Avenue Sagas is good: https://twitter.com/2AvSagas. It's more honest and direct than most overly deferential media coverage.
> In a nutshell, the tech industry generally tries to point the finger at lack of supply and blame NIMBYS for obstructing housing construction. But this can be seen as a defensive strategy

Is it perhaps possible that there might be a distinction to be made between things that are defensive strategies and things that are factually incorrect?