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> He certainly succeeded, but at what cost?

The cost would be paid by Chan regardless of whether he became rich and famous. Specifically, he did not have a choice for being a slave in the Peking Opera house, so I'm not sure what point you and the author are trying to make. Paraphrasing Obama, Chan has embraced the burden of his past without becoming and staying a victim of it. Jackie Chan has taken responsibility for his life and successfully determined his own destiny. What does the author suggest Jackie Chan do instead of rising above his past? Obsess about it and wallow in despair, hopelessness, and depression?
pity it's blockchain based
Most companies are unable/unwilling to implement U2F. What are the hopes they adopt "a blockchain-based protocol used for issuing and management of X.509 client certificates"?
Home depot eroded at this too, as Husky developed similar return a tool policies.
Except Mandarin has a lot more homophones than English does, likely under the long influence of the writing system.

For spoken Mandarin, you can probably infer enough from the conversational context, but for official documents, business and technical terminology, or any literature, full romanization renders the text much less incomprehensible.

This isn't helped by the fact that Classical Chinese, from which most complex vocabulary is derived, is even more homophonic than daily speech.
Better off how?
Neither is a store or a website, which were the examples used. But we can translate the same example given to public spaces easily: you install a hidden camera in a grating in a public square and take upskirt shots of women walking over. That’s illegal at a federal level in the US so people absolutely have a legal right to control your ability to do that.
Item was described as "new and sealed factory unlocked", and I had no complaints when it arrived. If it is repackaged, I was completely unable to tell any difference from other new devices I can remember unpacking (new from Amazon or directly from a vendor). The spare batteries I sourced from a separate UK supplier.

It's definitely intended for AT&T, but worked fine with Three in the UK as soon as I entered the appropriate APN info and restarted.

Here's a relisting, for what it's worth :

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/372561134735?ViewItem=&item=37256...
Can you provide the link to the one in particular?
> It blows my mind that people think recharging their cars on the go can be the future of transportation.

It's worth noting that article was written by someone who was driving a Tesla with 215 miles of range and who had clearly not done EV road tripping before. You cannot buy a Tesla model S with 215 miles of range anymore. The shortest model S is 259. The longest 335. And a thing you learn pretty quickly is that charging is super non-linear in its rate. 0->80 is much much much faster than 80->100.

I'm not disagreeing that EVs are worse for roadtripping. EVs are worse for road tripping -- but the car used and the choices of the author are exaggerating the issue.

www.abetterrouteplanner.com tends to be pretty spot on for "time spent charging" in the routes that it produces. If you want a better measure of the inconvenience, that's a good place to get such a measure.
The only thing reckless would be to buy a house while counting on unvested or unsold RSUs.

This might be the case that OP is thinking about.
Newer iOS does allow removing apps like Stocks, Weather, and Maps, although I don’t know if every trace is actually deleted.

I just deleted the built in Mail app from my iPhone and it worked fine.
My opinion is that justifying postgrad is hard, unless it's something you have strong passion for that also requires the degree program to achieve (ie; teaching, medicine, law). A few exceptions being if an employer is paying the entire cost, or if it's a top school where the networking value is extremely high.

> I'd like to apply myself with technology and be a part of building something.

Why can't you do that now? Why is grad school a necessary step for this? Can you learn the skills yourself, build something yourself, start a business, or work at a tech startup? What's your goal?

If your goal is to immerse yourself in tech and be a part of building something, what if you spent the equivalent time (18-24 months) in SF/bay area working at tech startups instead of going through a masters program?
I actually once had a situation like this- in the village in NYC there is a secret club/lounge my friend took me to one night. That area is just filled with bars that these days are overrun with tourists and the post-college crowd. I went out to dinner with a friend one night about two years later, we had a few, and were looking for a night cap, and I was like ugh, lets just leave the neighborhood to avoid these loud places you have to fight for space in.

But... then I walked by this almost suspectly non-descript steel door at the bottom of a few stairs, and some part of my brain said "there is a secret club/lounge behind this door." It was kind of surreal. I hesitantly opened it, and what do you know... there we were.
> The Amazon Fire platform which is Android

No, while it is an AOSP-derivative, it is not Android.
I've thought about this, too. It can't be that difficult to do, can it? Maybe it's illegal under current regulatory systems.
Unfortunately Prop 13 would make that pretty much impossible to pull off without changes at the state level.
You’re not talking like an investor. An investor buys something because he thinks it will be worth substantially more in the future. He doesn’t care if there are short-term fluctuations. If you think GOOG will be up 500% by 2024, you aren’t going to sell before then, because as an investor, you aren’t investing with money you need, that’s what salary is for. So it doesn’t matter whether you stop working for the company or not. You have your 6 months living expenses in liquid assets, so you don’t need to seek your investments. With this kind of thinking, the parent is right that an employee not selling RSUs is the same an a non-employee buying stock.
The equations in the current equation editor look very ugly. The old Equation Editor produced nice-looking equations but it was a pain to use. In LaTeX neither of these is a problem.
Thunderbolt from the mid 90's is one of his less popular, but it was Fast and the Furious, but 5 years earlier. He loves Mitsubishi, they're in a lot of his films.

Who Am I, First Strike, Police Stories, Armour of God, Mr. Nice Guy are all great, too.
TLDR: Idiot tries to write document in Latex, fails, blogs about it.
I just tried it in 10.14... and you are right! It wasn't possible in 10.12/10.13.
Except the engine isn't always there as taking up extra space and weight.
> Yet Classical Chinese is still a large part of Chinese literary canon, partially because the writing system allows for written Classical Chinese to comprehended by modern readers.

But only essentially though translation. It's different enough that a typical Chinese reader can't jump into those works with ease.

Latin works are still part of the Western literary canon, and for many centuries Europeans went though the trouble of learning Latin to read them. You can still find fossilized Latin phrases in modern languages like English, et cetera. That doesn't mean Latin is a truly living language.

> There are no examples to "Lion-Eating Poet" in Italian and English precisely because phonetic writing systems cause most writing to be incomprehensible as pronounciations change.

> Your example is also egregious also because the entire point of "Lion-Eating Poet" isn't that "it means different things in classical and modern Chinese" but that semantical meaning can still be transmitted by the writing system completely independent of pronounciation.

There can be no exact analogy because phonetic writing systems are more conserving of pronunciation while systems like Chinese are more conserving of semantics. That's why I said it's "it's sort of like." My point was the poem is more of a stunt than a real statement about a real language.
It's the best option out there but still a lower range phone.

It's actually a different phone than the non Android one version.
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Yes, that’s my hope.

The funny thing is, we aren’t obsessed with maximizing value so it should be interesting. If there was a model for limit orders in real estate we’d just set a limit or a buy-it-now price just to get the process over with. The whole real estate industry is a messy dance.

The last cycle of the valley startups intended to disrupt this stuff - Zillow, zipreality, Redfin - seems to have quickly been co-opted into the traditional model.
Credit card readers are dirt cheap.

You should pay for a reliable model, but the same applies to RFID. Still not very much.
Not portable generators--which you'd really want built in for various safety and venting reasons. But you're basically describing a plug-in hybrid. The case against these is that you still carry over at least some of the complexity/maintenance of having an ICE.
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Do the charger standards pass any data?

Like could you plug in, the car identifies itself as whatever VIN (add whatever anti-tampering challenge-response you want to armchair-design), and the electrons just start flowing?
Embrace the change and opportunity!

In germany we tried to start teaching Turkish at school. Boy was that a shit show of racism...
Wasn't Tesla also working on an option where you would drive up to a special dock, and it would extract the battery pack entirely from the bottom of your vehicle and swap in a new, fully-charged one? That seems like a more proper method for long trips and very cool (probably faster than filling up gas!) but I'm not sure if it's a reality yet.
"The shape itself of Mrs Muscat’s ‘New York for the UN’ dress is beyond horrible – really unflattering. Only a tall, skinny 20-year-old can carry off something that shape, but then a tall, skinny 20-year-old wouldn’t want to wear it."

I'm assuming he meant that that is not the writing you'd expect from a so called "anti corruption" journalist.
Isn't this the natural plateau all product categories eventually reach? 1 billion phones sold by Apple alone since 2007, but of course Wall St needs more.

I'd wager that consumers have reached the point where phones are 'boring' and increasingly expensive utility purchases, like a new laptop. We're way past the point of "there's an app for that" style ads. Beyond the basic social network apps, messaging apps and games, people don't even bother downloading apps anymore.

Like laptops, a phone you buy today will easily last you 2-4 years (laptops last longer of course). A marginally better camera isn't going to convince people to cough up $1000+ each year when they know the pictures are going to end up in a highly compressed form on Snap/FB/IG anyway.
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I believe that it was the OP intention to do that trip mostly for the experience. It doesn't make sense to ask why not take a train or any other transport instead.

In any case, it just deepens my fear of electric cars. It surely looks expensive (almost as much as gas cars), there are very few superchargers in Europe (where I live there's only 3-4, and very badly placed) and the autonomy doesn't seem to be that great. Maybe I just have to wait for better autonomy and more recharge stations...
You should have started with that argument. Instead you started with single sentence ad-hominenm.
That is only true when the other language is one that someone else you want to talk to speaks AND the other person doesn't speak your language. Unfortunately there are thousands of different languages in the world, it doesn't matter what language you speak somebody exists who doesn't speak it and then you cannot communicate. Alternatively, if the other party has already invested in learning your language there is less benefit to learning theirs. (less is not zero)

Is any language a good choice? The world changes all the time, over my lifetime English has been the best choice for the majority of people - in part because the majority of language learners have chosen English making it self-reinforcing (which isn't to discount the other reasons to learn English). However history is not always a predictor of the future. Even if history is the best overall your particular future might make Kazakh the best language to learn. (I picked Kazakh because you have probably never even heard of it before)

Don't forget that time spent learning a language could be used for something else. Language is useful to know, but it isn't the only thing and you cannot possibly learn all the useful things there are to know. You have to choose and your choices will both open and close doors to your future. Good luck choosing.
A note of clarification:

Drunken Master is pretty good!

Drunken Master II (re-released in slightly edited form as "Legend of the Drunken Master" in the US) is the one that's typically regarded as a bona-fide classic masterpiece.
Turning character into pinyin introduces so much ambiguity and lose so much information at local level that we need to go back and forth multiple times to infer what that word really is according to the partially parsed part of the sentence. While written sentence in character we don’t even need to do linear character by character scan, usually a glimpse of it will give you most of what you need to understand it.
I agree with you, in theory. But these days, with the revolving door between gov leadership and corporate leadership (1) this is a distinction without much of a difference.

And we all probably know about the vast data collection by the PRISM program (2), and access given to tech databases by the Freedom Act (3). And of course our current president signed 702 rauthorization last Jan. (4) so this cozy relationship could continue.

I guess my point is that it sure feels like we’re in a pretty hopeless state, given the deep ties between business and government.

At one time I was not so cynical about this topic. But after seeing the inside of the political process in both campaign work and working in the defense industry, my eyes have been opened.

The only solution involves political activism on topics most people either don’t understand or don’t care about.

(1)https://googletransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-revol...

(2)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_progra...

(3)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act

(4)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveil...
She did, but later bought another hammer (I think it was a screwdriver actually) because she realised that it did in fact spark joy by virtue of being useful.
The Feds Cracked El Chapo's Encrypted Comms Network by Flipping His System Admin
I was taken with the main idea of this paragraph from the essay when I first encountered it a while back:

A cluttered room saps one's spirits. One reason, obviously, is that there's less room for people in a room full of stuff. But there's more going on than that. I think humans constantly scan their environment to build a mental model of what's around them. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less energy you have left for conscious thoughts. A cluttered room is literally exhausting.
Well, there's also this difference concerning free software...
I don't know a lot about Nim, but I do know D, and there `string` is just an alias to `immutable(char)[]`. String literals are of this type. But one can manipulate mutable arrays of char all day long if needed.
Car trips in Europe in general are less “fun” than the US due to the simple fact in Europe most businesses keep sensible hours. Unlike the the US you can’t just drive and expect to find gas, food, or lodging at midnight. This may have changed in the past 10-20 years though. At least today you don’t have to bother with showing your papers at every border crossing.
About seeing the future: one advantage that employees have over investors is the ability to see the future in terms which products are in the pipeline.

One other reason to hold on to stock instead of selling are taxes: in the case of ESPP, holding on for a year (or sometimes more), it can make a huge difference in the case of heavily appreciated stock.
This is super awesome!! I wish it didn't spam the hell out of my browser history though.
Couldn't a card number be tokenized in some way so as to allow for tracking?
Are you open to discussing the opportunities via phone?
My moral system is very different. I see no problem (at all) with paying for DRMed content.

"Supporting DRM means supporting a world where you have to pay rent and seek permission from corporate overlords to use your own devices in the way you wish"

No. It means paying content creators for access to their content on my device. I'm using my device however I like, I just don't get access to the hard work of others on exactly my terms all of the time.

And that's ok.
An MP3 files is mostly a collection of encoded frames. You can just concatenate them.
No, it's good enough if precautions are taken. If you apply a moderate amount of care, your identity is not hard to protect when using it.

There are a variety of ways to have private transactions across either the public internet or other networks. There are a variety of coins that use tor, for instance.

It doesn't have to be bitcoin either.

My point was that if you can avoid cashing out to fiat using well known gateways, anonymity isn't difficult to preserve. It only becomes an anonymity problem if you are careless or if you cash out using known KYCd gateways.
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Exactly! We should use the system the majority of the developed world relies on: socialized medicine.
Yes, that's the effect. But I'd only have to carry the generator portion when needed for a road trip. You could perhaps even rent it only when you need.

Even if the generator was in a small trailer, that would provide the range freedom without loosing the storage space (and help with venting/cooling/noise).
I'm just reading Kitchen Confidential now and I loved this bit as well!
Actually, most of them are removable! Only a few apps that are deeply tied to the system (Settings, Photos, App Store, Clock, Messages, etc) can’t be deleted, but you can remove Maps, Weather, Music, Calculator, etc.
In a lot of cases I would say that working your ass off basically buys you the lottery ticket, but whether it pays off is largely luck. Innate talent and ability might skew the odds in your favor slightly, but I think it's more likely that they just lower the work-cost of the lottery ticket.
> I've wondered, though. What constitutes a pet?

We don't need categories to be so rigid.

I have some squirrels in the yard who recognise me and follow me around until I feed them.

I call them 'yard pets'.

Sometimes they come into the house when they are too excited, but I've never had trouble escorting them out.

I don't particularly like the idea of laws getting in the way of my relationship with animals, even if they are wild.
> From my perspective, his wife was there to help enable the creation of Amazon.

I don't know what she did or didn't do, so I don't want to discuss this case specifically. But the idea that your wife or husband contributes half of your work is not something I agree with. I understand that if one of them spent their whole married life prioritizing their home and family instead of their career so the other one could focus on theirs it makes sense to divide the assets using other metrics than who payed for it. But there have to be a limit, someone spending their days at home or out shopping is not worth millions or billions of their partner's money. After all, choosing to not focus on your own career is your choice.

Do you feel the same about negative things married people create? Should spouses share prison sentences if one of them commit crimes, like financial scams? If he would have been heavily in debt, should she share that too?

> diverging goals and interests.

I agree that's a valid reason for divorce. I don't agree that she should be entitled to 50% of his property (or that he should get 50% of hers, but it's a bit unequal in this situation).
Because they're a tiny footnote and are nonexistent nowadays in academia and economics circles.

I've seen more about Austrians in the last 2 days on HN than in 4 years of taking Econ in University.
Honest question about the graph because I haven't had my coffee yet: doesn't this red spike simply mean the 2018 levels returned to the 2016 levels?
I don't want my private info be gathered by people who have no idea what they're doing.

I understand that there's forums/websites run by people who have no idea what they're doing. And regulations like GDPR make sure that services they are using have baseline encryption and guarantees. Like, it should encrypt passwords and private data, don't store it if not necessary and have functionality to delete users.

It is not about people running the websites/forums, it is about software they are choosing to use. Baseline should not be "it works", but it should be "it works and provide reasonable level of security". I know it is some work on part of people who have no idea what they're doing, but ultimately it is up to developers to set up CMS and forum engines to comply.
Maybe it’s my different experience and age, but I definitely nudge people away from solo startups using the examples I’m referring to as concrete examples when talking live to friends.

Reality is no one is so good that having another voice in the room isn’t usually an advantage for the leaf nodes. There are plenty of people who believe they are, though.

I will say this only applies to more traditional startups - seeking funding, hiring a team. It’s different when the solo entrepreneur builds and sells and then is hiring to augment the company. Not sure I would join that either but it is different.
Wow this actually kinda fun. Tell your bro props.
I don't see how paying for the site would change the situation at all. I still don't consent to tracking in either case and they will still track me in either case.

Like paying to go to a movie theater doesn't mean you can choose to skip the ads before the show.
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That's just spoken language. There are many words that are "literary", which means they are used primarily in writing and not spoken language. Without hanzi it would be very difficult to understand what is written.
I spent 5 minutes trying to find out what and how this is supposed to work and all I figured out is that there's some kind of Hyperledger Sawtooth blockchain (whatever that is). No idea how that's helping with authentication for a web service.

Edit: I now skimmed through the linked architecture overview video and I don't see how that makes authentication any more secure: They seem to build a "distributed storage/management facility" for public keys from what I get from the video. How private keys are handled is nowhere mentioned. So I don't see how that makes anything more secure. From what I understand it might only make the verification part more distributed.
For anyone who can't/won't use ADB, check out Package Disabler:

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