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Maybe I am arguing with you because I can't do the same with the author. Does your comment not reiterate the article's core ideas in a nice little package? The size of the content is irrelevant when it resonates with the larger work. Is it not natural to ask "What's the point?" when none was seemingly provided?
Legal or no, your coworker should probably be careful. Raccoons are one of the main rabies carriers in the US. Of course, if it was actually a pet, presumably your coworker could have gotten the raccoon vaccinated.
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The same applies to many inelastic markets with bimodal (or otherwise "lumpy") distributions. When the supply falls below demand from the highest tiers only, there's a sudden sharp spike in price, as all the lower tiers are priced out of the market entirely. The market-clearing price becomes what the higher-paying buyers are willing & able to pay, because there's not enough product to service the lower-paying mass market anyway and so no incentive to price affordably for them.

You see this most dramatically with startups. A single engineer might go for $200K/year. If that single engineer founds a startup that develops a commanding lead in a market that suddenly becomes interesting to a big company, they can fetch billions. Why? Because now instead of there being one Yahoo and 30,000 Jan Koums, there is one WhatsApp and some very deep-pocketed Googles/Facebooks/Yahoos.

It applies to other markets like gasoline, therapists, health care, etc. too. When demand exceeds supply, all the "excess" demand simply has to go without, and the market-clearing price rises to the maximum that the marginal customer can pay.
Unfortunately this is not a 'REAL' analysis at all. Just a homework-ish object detection.

It is like equalizing some fact based data reports in an Excel sheet to an advanced neural network model.
IMO, the article was a little breathless in its reporting.

I wonder if the encryption here is just SRTP/ZRTP.
alright. this looks interesting. I'll have to dive back into this space and see what's changed, I'm probably out of the loop. What's the diff between "wrk" and "wrk2"?
Formatting a difficult equation using LyX is soooo easy because you throw the TeX in and see the result right there. Plain TeX with big equations has a lot of guess-and-check with it, and Word just fails. LyX is definitely a fantastic tool and I use it as my main document writer.
How funny, I just started picking up some GURPS material because I wanted some RPG action that wasn’t all dungeon crawling hack n’ slash.

Between Cyberpunk, Illuminati, Atomic Horror, and a little Cthulhupunk, should be some good times; if I can get a campaign together...
Counterpoint:

I wrote a 200 page technical book in Word. After a couple days of customizing Word (few macros, hotkeys, customizing the styles to my liking), everything went well and I was able to do everything I wanted w/o trouble.

Word does have a learning curve (e.g. put all pictures inside a text box, it makes layout 10x easier), but once learned it is quite nice for a lot of purposes.
Sure, but that's not really relevant here. The parent still considers them 'wild' despite providing alternate food source which changes their behavioral patterns.

Somewhat similar to photographers baiting animals for more dramatic photos: https://www.audubon.org/news/why-you-shouldnt-feed-or-bait-o...

If you want to keep wildlife truly wild you should do your part to minimize the impact you have on their habitats and behaviors.
The Division 2 Is Skipping Steam in Favor of the Epic Games Store
The idea (and implementation) of Smart TVs is very frustrating to me, so I'm glad to see others reaching this conclusion--

> I went back to plugging my PC into the TV.

It's a perfect example of what Stallman has always warned us about -- companies using software in products to control and exploit us rather than empower us. All the things you mention, planned obsolescence, and more.
I don't know, would you intuit the model called the X or the XS (read: "excess") as being the bigger, better phone? How many others might have thought it was "Xtra Small"?

And even if you knew the XS was the refresh, would guess the XR preceeded or succeeded it? R comes before S, so maybe S is the newest?

Personally, the X naming feels like kind of a gaff.
Yeah.. Import I think is going to be big feature for us as we try to convert people from Mendeley, and Pocket which have huge existing repositories. I don't have that problem yet.

Right now Polar can import a whole directory full of PDFs but that doesn't really get tagging.

I might end up building a file format so that we can do imports.

So you could take the Pocket RSS list, then convert it to the Polar import format, then just import that directly.

We would probably try to bundle up standard importers though.
A policy based approach to docker security
> You can assign, at the repo level, sub-repos to include in this one, get an atomic commit hash for the state of the whole thing, and where my VCS client doesn't need to actually download every linked repo, but where tools are available to act like I have.

Mercurial subrepos work a lot like you describe.
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Got a real link?
In retrospect, you're correct. I should have said "WR reduces the cost of the paint/composite cycle".
That's a little bit of a Catch-22. "Engagement" is not a well-defined metric, and in practice when people try to measure it, they end up justifying the use of any number they happen to be able to measure at the moment. So almost any number can plausibly be called an "engagement score" or something similarly vague.

Your goal should be for something more specific, and ideally at least a tad more concrete. Things like "product satisfaction," "positive impression of brand," and "purchase intent" could all be synonyms for "engagement" but they are not synonyms with each other because they are all more specific and narrowly-defined. And furthermore, they're better guidelines because particular features or activities could be well-suited for one and not another, so optimizing towards one of those actually provides some focus.
Asterisk has had SIP/TLS for a 5 years now. Ive tried it a few times, and its not too bad with ECDSA or smaller RSA keys.

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/SIP+TLS+Transport
It is largely because of the previous Soviet invasion that Ukrainians would today fight to the last to prevent a future Russian invasion. They themselves didn't feel the same about Crimea, because of course historically it only became a part of Ukraine in 1954, a "gift" of USSR. Russia is today surrounded by nations it theoretically (well, it might depend on the current oil price: yay fracking!) could defeat militarily. Are sanctions protecting all of those? If we assume that's possible, how could we ramp up sanctions from their already absurd levels if Russia started threatening e.g. Azerbaijan or Mongolia? Please, let's live in the real world: USA sanctions against Russia are not sustaining Ukrainian independence. As is always the case, the Ukrainians themselves are doing that.

Conspiracy theory.

AQI developed in Iraq after we had completely destroyed civil society there and created a vacuum of law and order. AQI developed into ISIS after we further disrupted both Iraq and Syria, in those regions of both nations where no one (including armies of USA, Iraq, Syria, Russia...) dared venture. For many years, most of their arms and ammunition came from American-supplied caches "stolen" from the apocryphal "good rebels" that we were repeatedly told actually existed and would kick out Assad real soon now. This is basic recent international history. How is it that you haven't kept up with this?
Even the article says there's a LaTeX fetish. Nobody is pushing vanilla TeX, the point is arguing against a strawman.
> That isn't really accurate, you're just defining "crapware" is such a way so that Google's apps don't qualify. That's a double standard.

I need to clarify - I'm not an Apple hater, I own an iPhone, 2 iPads, 2 Macbook Pros and a Mac Mini at the time of this comment.

But, this same logic can be applied to Apple as well. For example, I don't use Apple's photos app at all. And I can't delete it. There is absolutely no way to even replace it. The same logic applies to Apple's crappy music app as well. I use Spotify 100% of the time. Not to mention the constant push to upgrade to Apple music on a system default app is unacceptable.

The photos app isn't crucial to my iPad's core functions. Yet I get constantly harassed with upgrade to iCloud bullshit constantly. Same thing goes with App Store as well, which has no way to turn off upgrade notifications. This is even true of Mac OS X as well, where I get notified constantly to upgrade to Mojave when I have no plans to do so...so that Apple can make my system slower and force me to upgrade my otherwise perfectly functional Mac. It's not like they haven't done this in the past, so...that's the real double standard I would argue.
> But the idea that your wife or husband contributes half of your work is not something I agree with.

If you believe that, you really shouldn't ever get married, most certainly not in a community property state. Washington state is a community property state, which means that all of Amazon is equally both of theirs, legally.
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Thanks.. probably the same article but on a different URL.
Wow! Eye-opening. Thanks for posting it.
Word also supports LaTeX for equations! https://support.office.com/en-us/article/linear-format-equat...
I wonder if some of the downward pressure is the economic slowdown in China. Without foreign tax evaders propping up the market it is unsustainable. You might even see a crash if the situation gets really bad and people are forced to liquidate to cover their losses. We already saw this happen once with the Japanese back in the 80s and 90s.
> How do you know what would have been accomplished without that person's spouse managing the home?

How do you know she didn't have her own career and the multi billionaires didn't have hired help to take care of their home? Should she be entitled to less than 50% if she worked as a regular employee in the company and they shared their domestic responsibilities equally?

> I would say that those contributions which were key to the success of the company absolutely do entitle you to 50%.

Driving your own kids to activities and washing some dishes is absolutely not key to the success of a huge company, or any company.
There are several comments here about Khosla and his efforts to convert public right of way to private property on the California Coast. It's fair to ask, "why is this relevant to a video of his views on the future (tech)?"

It's relevant because the beach controversy shows that the future that Kohsla wants to create is inimicable to the future that I want to see. He sees a big-L libertarian future, where the strong eat the weak, wealth is the sole source of power, and the wealthy act with a large degree of impunity.

So at best, I would watch with that in mind and have to critique everything he says to pick apart when he is trying to advance that view, vs observations and ideas that are not tied to it. In this case, I haven't bothered. There are others I can listen to for insight.
I wrote my thesis (200 pages) in LaTeX and I cannot imagine not having to do the final touch ups in LaTeX. You tend to get lots of line break issues, figure location and orientation and spacing issues, vertical spacing issues, that you have to touch up to make it look nice. It sounds incredibly impractical to do your writing in markdown and then use pandoc to convert to LaTeX, do dozens of touch ups, and then get your final output, send to your reviewers, get your reviews and recommended edits, do more edits (okay, now I can't go back to markdown anymore and redo the whole conversion process), more touch ups, rinse and repeat a few dozen times with your reviewers. Might as well stick with LaTeX in the first place.
> No, it's vastly easier for Chinese to learn English (or French or German) because they're generally phonetically-spelled languages.

Interesting of you to make that claim as english spelling is usually a nightmare to learn (as is French spelling to a minor extent). Sometimes people really are learning it word by word. It seems easier for you because you're already familiar with it.

> And the payoff is much higher: learning Chinese only lets you communicate with Chinese/Taiwanese people. Learning English lets you communicate with a huge proportion of the world who also learns English as a second language, simply because it's the current lingua franca.

Well, seeing as there are well over a billion of chinese people I'd think twice about using the word "only". Also there are many who speak it as a second language as well.
The author works on Google Chrome so I'm pretty sure they're familiar with the pros and cons of C++. It's possible that there's a place for using C++ on a new project in 2019 but that would definitely be a decision to justify with a comprehensive process for mitigating the risks of not using e.g. Rust.
You can be goofy and fun and make high art. Slapstick spectacle can also be profound. There's a certain po-faced affectation that is necessary to be called an artist. Being good isn't good enough; you also need to convincingly ape the norms of a self-appointed cultural elite.

The disparity in esteem between pop and rock springs to mind. We have an ingrained sense that if a record appeals to 13-year-old girls, then it must on some level be inherently inferior to a record that appeals to middle-aged men, regardless of the actual sophistication of the music in question. A teenage boy learning to play guitar carries an entirely different set of cultural connotations and expectations than a teenage girl learning to sing, regardless of how much effort they each expend. The term "credibility" hides a deep vein of ugly bigotry.
Hedge funds (and my wife and I, but really my wife...) made that bet in 2010-2012. And it was a fantastic opportunity.

It’s not a bet that I would make at today’s prices, so I’m surprised that a hedge fund would still do it.
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Facebook has for some reason angered the mainstream media and is suffering their wrath. I wonder if its because of their support of Republican political stuff? That's definitely a big no-no if you want to keep in the good graces of the media. Or is it because some other reason? There has to be some major transgression that caused this coordinated media flagellation, essentially for doing things that many other firms are guilty of doing.

Why such the laser focus on them specifically instead of on Silicon Valley giants in general? Why is the focus of the article on Facebook when they are not the only app that OEMs and carriers force onto their customers devices? What is the real reason that Facebook is being targeted?

Also weird how the article focuses on Samsung when it is an industry-wide issue with Android devices. It reads sort of like an Apple ad with a bonus anti-Facebook slant. To focus only on Facebook and Samsung for this issue is disingenuous on Bloomberg's part. The part quoting random Twitter users chiding Samsung is a poor choice for the article: its not just a Samsung problem and they know this. They acknowledge in the article that the issue is not just Facebook and Samsung, yet the focus is kept on them.

Fascinating!
I grew up on kraft yellow cheese slices as well, my parents could've afforded better cheese however I think its more to the availability (much like the OP states) of better quality items. Grocery stores in America (well big cities at least) have changed massively in the past 30 years, and once you have some decent cheese, you wont buy single slices again.
> What is a "real language" here? The poem is comprehensible to modern Chinese, although the grammar follows Classical Conventions. What makes it not a "real language"?

I should have been more specific: I meant a real living language. The poem is a stunt that demonstrates how far modern Mandarin pronunciation has diverged from Classical Chinese (which is dead as a spoken language), but it doesn't make much of a statement about the practicality of replacing hanzi with a phonetic system for writing modern living Mandarin.
The salient point is that china as super power is negative independent of where you're sitting.
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> wrap myself up in the more esoteric solutions to coding issues. I don't constantly chase new libraries and frameworks and build tools and I don't spend time discussing semantics while pair programming.

You've just described virtually all my colleagues at my last $ENTERPRISE_JOB. In enterprise jobs, hell is other people - at least it is if you just want to get the job done.
An Empirical Study on Crash Recovery Bugs in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Easy. Just make a mumble server. The server is authenticated with a public key and the communication is encrypted. The only way to listen to the communication is if you pwn one of the clients or the server. Btw I can really recommend mumble. At this stage it is plug & play and the quality is really good. I set it up for my parents (on my own mumble server running on my linux server) and we only mumble call these days.
There's no country named "Taiwan". It is the Republic of China. "Taiwan" is the name of the island in Chinese. It is where the Chinese nationalist government (Kuomintang) sought refuge after losing mainland to the CCP. So it's not only a Chinese-speaking country, it claims to be the legitimate China.
Perhaps a lot of folks are starting to wake up and go vegan, too, which would contribute to the "cheese surplus" (opting for cashew cheeses and other cruelty-free, delicious options.)
Prop 13 limits the supply of homes available for sale. In Texas if your house value doubles, your property taxes double also. In California (since 1978), they remain the same.
I still use Kraft singles for burgers and grilled cheese sandwiches but for everything else I switched to higher quality cheese.
You lose nothing by learning other people's language or way of thinking. Knowledge as they say is power... even if those giving it to you don't have your best interests at heart.
Are those the actual anti-corruption pieces or just something the poster randomly found with that journalist's name in the byline?
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Wow, this calculator is very punchy is anyone else finding that?
This is really nice, simple and fun game. Absolutely a great first project. I love how the physics feel.
I wanted to like this book
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Here in Sweden someone had pigeons flying to their balcony all the time and they got reported for keeping them as a pet. The city dropped them off in another town but they flew back and were ordered to be put down because native species are not allowed to be kept as pets and they were unwilling to adapt to not living on the balcony.
MathType looks decent for maths (and I assume engineering). I can see the appeal of the WYSIWYG, though I don't really see how learning a bunch of shortcuts is materially different from learning the Latex commands.

Nevertheless, it still doesn't have a bunch of the symbols I need, which was my point about smaller domains.

I'm glad it works for you, but given the advantage seems to me marginal and it offers no options for extensibility, I'm still unconvinced that we're at or even close to a stage where Latex has no place in writing documents.
Thanks.. fixed it.
worked out great for Europe, finally they can do without wars!
This article is currently flagged, but I hope it gets "unflagged". Washington State is a community property state, which would normally mean all of Bezos' Amazon shares are owned equally by the both of them. I'm not a lawyer, but would be a good discussion to understand how the assets of the largest shareholder of America's largest (or 2nd largest) company will be split.
> force their shitty software down people's throats every day

Did Facebook force OEMs to include their software on their devices? Isn't it more likely that OEMs are getting paid for the placement and the blame for its inclusion lies with OEMs?
Cambridge Analytica owner fined £15,000 for ignoring data request
> but you don't spend years memorizing thousands and thousands of characters to learn English

except you are memorizing thousands and thousands of spellings to learn English
"This article strikes me as a deliberate re-spinning of a story meant to be triumphal"

^ This right here.

There are many things to say about the damages caused by colonialism, but complaining that it's not covered in a book about Chan (who got immensely successful), in Hong Kong (which became very wealthy) in the 1960/70s (while the rest of China was basically burning down) misses the mark. There is a historical context that is quite specific to Hong Kong: the majority of its population actually moved there post-WW2 to escape the troubles on the mainland. Moreover before its decades of unrest, China had been ruled by the Qing, whom most Chinese considered to also be colonisers (the Qing were Manchus who imposed their customs on the Han Chinese majority), so in that regards the British were not some sort of uniquely evil rulers, they were yet another bunch of invaders, who happened to be slightly less violent than the other ones next door.

I think that's why Chan ignored the colonialist angle: it's kind of hard to hate on a city if your family willingly moved there. And yes there is hardship and injustice, but in the rest of China people are either getting purged or are literally dying of hunger. I believe his apolitical view of that era is quite common amongst his generation: yep HK was ruled by some foreigners for a while, next chapter please.

There are some Brits who would tell you that HK developed "thanks to" the UK (I am of the opinion that when a colonised city surpasses even the UK's GDP without being granted any meaningful democratic rights, they succeeded despite your rule, not because of it). This article takes the opposite position but still implies the same thing, that Hong-Kongers were victims with little agency, which I find patronizing when in reality they where a city of refugees who brilliantly navigated a difficult era. Likewise presenting Chan's physical trauma as representative of Hong-Kong's development strikes me as completely off. Lots and lots of people accessed the middle and upper class in the 70s and 80s. Most of them were not stuntmen, it turns out. I must say this is the first Western review I see of this book, and it's the first one that brings colonialism up seemingly out of nowhere. There is a little bit of "Chan's story is not really about him, it's about... us! the Western people" euro-centrism here, IMHO.

Also, since everyone is naming their favourite Jackie Chan movie, have a look at Project A and Project A2, they're a lot of fun (A2 actually tackles some colonialism-related topics in passing).
I can’t say about Kazakhstan, but anecdotally, a lot of Singaporeans I know (not terribly many) are quite satisfied with, even proud of their country, the government, and the Lee family. The activists are the minority, by a wide margin.
> The parent still considers them 'wild' despite providing alternate food source which changes their behavioral patterns.

Who says this is changing their behavioural patterns? Maybe native people in north america have been randomly feeding grey squirrels for thens of thousands of years.

Maybe for longer in Eurasia?

In fact if it weren't in the animals behavioural repertoire to recognise the opportunity of taking food from people, then we wouldn't even be able to get them to understand.
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