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This isn't entirely true: physical games allow house ruling, even to the point that the game could be considered a new game.

I also disagree that the analog version is terrible in high complexity games compared with the digital version, because for the groups I play in the overhead of the complexity causes analysis paralysis... the automation of a digital version doesn't really help that much in my experience
Sounds like my company!
I don't think the debate is whether WeWork provides a better office space experience than Regus, which it does, having used both.

The question is though is it worth 10x more than it's competitor on a per customer basis?

Since they are fundamentally selling the same thing, office space, and there are ton of new startups doing the same thing with a similar vibe to WeWork in NYC, their original market, it has shown that the model is easy enough to replicate and most tenants won't benefit from a WeWork satelite network of offices since they remain local, and the customers will primarly choose on price when the same benefits are offered.

So a 10x multiple increase over their closest competitor at scale would imply that they have a foreseeable future where they are doing 10x more revenue, which would be approaching $8-10B.

Also in a market that is heavily dependent upon the general health of the fiscal market that would imply 100% growth for each of the next 3 years and the global economy not hitting a recession which would certainly impact their revenue. That's before we even get into the fact they are losing over a $1B a year as well.

They are well capitalized so that is less of an issue, but people are basically implying that either WeWork owns the entire coworking office space market, or these other initiatives take off.

There is a possibility for that to work. After all half of Amazon's current market cap is actually AWS and that is far removed from their original ship books to customers business model when they first launched.

So it is possible that WeLive can become a large contributor over time, but I would prefer to see more numbers on that and how that is progressing and if it's really a working model, then the rehash of the coworking office space analysis.
Yeah, back when I was playing competitive card games I was trying to figure out a way to put nfc chips or something in card sleeves and scanning them with my phone as a way of rebuilding game state later when you have to pick up and leave. Didn't really get past the idea phase, and I imagine scanning 60 cards would get pretty tiring anyhow.
OneNote is by far the best electronic note-taking and organizing tool out there, in spite of many glaring shortcomings. (e.g.: It really needs a way to tag things, as the full text search quickly becomes less useful as you pour more of your life in it, especially web clips; also need real tree-structure organizing that lets you go deeper than just Notebook/Section/Page; UI is a disaster for pen/touch use since removing radial menus, etc.) It's the main reason I will never go back to a "caveman laptop" w/o pen support. I just wish MS would really put serious effort into OneNote as a product.

That said, I capture critical ideas and project and research info in OneNote, but still use a plain old notebook (using a system I made up myself similar to the old Franklin planner and Bullet Journals) to do much of my ordinary day-to-day notetaking, planning, and task management. The truth is, there is NO electronic "day management" system available today that is even close to as good as what Palm had 20 years ago.
> Once, I believe it was in the late 90's, my wife showed me the cover of a business mag. It showed the CEO of Sears, and also a young guy with a messenger bag and a Misfits pin. "Sears", with an arrow pointing to the CEO. "Sears.com" with an arrow pointing to the youngster.

It was from Fortune in November 1999. Here's an image of the cover:

https://twitter.com/opinion_joe/status/998689983757209607

Better quality: https://backissues.com/cgi-bin/backissues.cgi?full/FU1999110...
It does have banking restrictions on nuclear weapon related items. Computer equipment is dual use, and can be used to further nuclear weapons research and test nuclear weapon designs. In fact, it's a critical part in developing modern nuclear weapons.

And of course the US has laws to enforce the sanctions they agreed (and China agreed) to implement under the UN resolutions.
Looking at this source code... it's a window into the past that nobody should have to revisit.

I would recommend:

- Start a new program from scratch

- Refer to old code to port over "novel" concepts/logic

- Publish a skeleton / MVP project so people can add to it (instead of trying to start from an unusable codebase).

Some fun snippets from main.c:

// Update the emo turd cache
EmoTurdCache = EmoLitterInternetWithTurds();

/*
* run the text analyzer
*/
if (!TypingRecently && BeingAnal()) AnalScan();

// and the emoticon scanner
if (!TypingRecently && HasFeature(featureEmo) && EmoDo()) EmoScan();

Looks like the person who wrote this had fun with naming conventions... :)
Well I’m a near 50 overweight guy (yeah, I know...) and sleeping on the side (if I sleep on my back I snore like hell).

If I sleep on a too firm mattress, I confirm my shoulder starts to hurt during the night.
When I’m sleeping, I can rest for several hours, even the whole night, without moving or changing side.

But on firm mattress I wake up several time during the night to change side.

About the orientation, it’s really strange, and I cannot explain why, but it depends. And I mean the side is VERY important, as I can’t fall asleep if I’m on the « wrong » side.

But it’s not always the same side. And sometimes it lasts for weeks or even month. And one day I switch for no reason I can find, because it’s impossible to fall asleep on the side I’ve spent weeks sleeping on.

Strange.
Music streaming services license music this way IIRC.
That's a different thing entirely though. If you force companies to donate to a project, they'll want to have some ownership of it. If you do it indirectly through taxes, you're forcing everyone to fund it so it becomes a democratic process.

I personally don't agree with either approach, but I think Stallman's idea would have a much better result than forcing companies to donate.
Would you expect China to arrest you on Chinese soil if you did something in the US that was illegal in China?

If China creates a law that says "no one in the world may drive faster than 40 mph" and you, an American citizen, fly to China, can China arrest you for driving 60 mph in the USA?
Exploring the effect of microdosing psychedelics on creativity
The kids are playing with their parents:
"it didn't take too much convincing to get the whole family to play, including his 73-year-old grandmother."

The surge in Twitch and podcasting is adults:
"One of the most popular live-play Dungeons & Dragons web series is Critical Role, featuring a core group of eight professional voice actors adventuring through custom campaigns written and led by dungeon master Matthew Mercer. "

Why you diss me man
I've got no idea why Microsoft was going apesh· for bytecode all of a sudden.

Delphi probably was one of the main reasons. It was a lot better for Windows 32 development than VB and there were projects to port it to Linux.

Microsoft then recruited Delphi leads, settled a long running suit with Borland (with the fallout of stopping Delphi for Linux development) and finally created a platform where they keep control, unlike native API that is much more open.
It's essential in a system where changes to how government operates largely aren't possible due to partisan divides; bondsman are a free market solution to absurd government policies on bail. When you can't fix the government, you go around them.

btw, that wasn't me that down voted you.
You cash out by having a vested interest in damaging the exchange or currency in general. Say for example a hedge fund that shorts all crypto exchanges, or a competing cryptocurrency that wants to undermine confidence in their competition.
I like this a lot; I'll be trying it on a few victi--er, boardgamers I think might be able to appreciate tabletop RPGs but are pushed back by both social stigmas and a belief that the rules are more complex than they are.

It solves the latter problem, at least. :)
No, I get it. It took me 40 years and like I say, maybe getting older itself has something to do with it. Also I 100% would not have done it without my partner, I needed someone to drag me along.

I do agree that the prevailing "earlier === better" mindset is harmful and should go away.
That depends on what you mean by "Church-Turing thesis":

* http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~dqg/papers/strong-cct.pdf The Interactive Nature of Computing: Refuting the Strong Church-Turing Thesis (Published version here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.455...)

* https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Computability-Beyond-C...

See also a previous hacker news discussion of the Church-Turing thesis here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18253994

albeit I take issue with the supposed "proof" by counter example via Compass & Straightedge construction given in the video there, due to results like these two:

* https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10472-018-9603-0 Kellison, Ariel; Bickword, Mark; Constable, Robert L. - Implementing Euclid’s straightedge and compass constructions in type theory [September 2018] (Code here: http://www.nuprl.org/LibrarySnapshots/Published/Version2/Mat...)

* https://geocoq.github.io/GeoCoq/ (Numerous papers by Michael Beeson et al., just check the page, I won't link them all here)

(Note that the authors of the two above works take very different yet similar approaches to the whole matter, it really pays off to compare both to each other.)

However, there seem to exist at least two different spanners in the works:

* https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10472-018-9610-1 Makowsky, Johann A. - Can one design a geometry engine? On the (un)decidability of certain affine Euclidean geometries

* https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-57669-4_... Makowsky, Johann A. - The Undecidability of Orthogonal and Origami Geometries

(If the first of the two above papers makes you wonder "well who DIDN'T overlook Ziegler's theorem... Well... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=2279217158168053275)

Oh and in case anyone here still believes Hilbert's old wives tale about /his/ Axiom of Choice, there's plenty of AC to go around in constructive mathematics:

https://vrahli.github.io/articles/bar-induction-lics-long.pd...

But if that doesn't convince you yet, you might go through the 5 stages of accepting it anyway, as outlined by Andrej Bauer here:

* https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25363/au-revoir-law-of-ex...

* Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qPOReu4FI

* And here: https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2017-54-03/S0273-0979-2016...

And here's one last paper to almost conclude what turned into a bit of a larger-than-I-expected Constructivism propaganda piece comment:

http://t-news.cn/Floc2018/FLoC2018-pages/preprint_cX1w.pdf "On Expanding Standard Notions of Constructivity"

And to now conclude this, a semi-joke:
Wouldn't the fact that one can't prove the Church-Turing thesis, but could falsify it by counterexample, put propagation of belief in the meme of the Church-Turing thesis into either the complexity class of RE, or co-RE? ;)
"A Facebook spokesperson said the disabled version of the app acts like it's been deleted, so it doesn't continue collecting data or sending information back to Facebook. But there's rarely communication with the consumer about the process."

If this is the case then why not allow it to be deleted?
Thank you for this post! I just moved to Santa Monica from the NYC metro area and I've been looking for a place to take classes.
I so knew I was getting downvoted for that...
Your Apple Music year in review
Thanks! Your google-fu is better than mine, I admit it.
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The bail system itself is abhorrent if there isn’t a reason to lock you up until trial then you shouldn’t be locked up, if there is you shouldn’t be able to buy your way out.

Most other countries have figured out how to serve justice without a system that discriminates against the poor.

Too many people can’t afford the down payment or can offer a collateral to get a bail financed those who can end up being indebted to them you are advocating for the legalization of loan sharks.
Not to mention z-fighting for distant objects.
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The sanctions should include pencils too, since they can be used to do math which can be used to figure out nuclear equations, thus violating the nuclear sanctions
Web site owners can now push notifications to people who bookmarks their site
Absolutely. And since they stock different brands, it's even more important to get the sizing right. I remember reading shoes and apparel made up a high portion of their gross sales.

In general, my experience is that the higher the price, the longer and more intense the buying cycle is. It's not ground-breaking to think that but I also think it will indicate the last retail stores to bend at the will of online demand: cars, boats, engagement rings, etc.
I work in tech, I think how people work is a key advantage. But the concepts underpinning agility and leanness can be traced back as far as you please. We didn't invent them and we don't own them.
The whole tivo-isation thing has been discussed extensively, as well as the problems with trying to prevent it with the license.

I didn't include an entire summary of it, as it can be easily looked up on e.g. Wikipedia, as well as many other places.
The HCI win doesn't come from making gestures in thin-air, it comes from being able to interpret regular tactile interactions with physical objects.

Consider the playing cards example: instead of tapping on digital images of cards, you can now touch and hold physical cards to manipulate a digital system with one convenient sensor.
Having my personal projects on the same platform as my professional ones is complementary.
Most other countries don't have our intractable political system; bondsman solve a problem, they let people get out of jail when the government is being absurd.
I use my Russian cell phone number when the Google Voice burner won’t work.
Yeah it's pretty amazing for $700 and time if your car isn't already supported

check YouTube videos
> the service charges you money

They (mobile carriers) already do charge me money... What's your point?
re: NES

That was a console released following the video game industry crash of 1983 — a crash associated with total pessimism of games everywhere (at least in the US, but that was the most important console market)

It’s likely they were very deliberately trying avoid direct association with the game industry. Afaik, they’ve always intended their consoles be percieved as more toy-like, but the nes was a particilarly hard stance on that (even bundling it with a toy — R.O.B.)

>Nintendo's critical error: failing to understand the customer in America isn't children, it is their parents and grandparents, who have no fucking clue what the difference is between "the Nintendo" and "the super Nintendo."

You say this.. but outside of the wii u and n64, hasnt nintendo outsold its competition in every console generation so far? Although, I suppose it could also be said thats better attributed to the bigger shitshow of microsoft/sony/sega/atari, than nintendo’s own doing
Thank you for that well thought-out and reasoned response. Have an upvote!
The majority of bail isn’t prescribed at the federal level plenty of states can go way with it if they wanted too.

The whole concept of bail shouldn’t have a place in a modern society.
I guess my number is a bit dated. It's $95 billion in federal loans in the most recent year, but it peaked at $117 billion in 2010-2011. https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/2017-tre... page 9. Still, the DOE budget cannot reflect that since it is much less.

Non-federal loans account for 11% of loans: https://trends.collegeboard.org/student-aid/figures-tables/t....
The analogy is inaccurate. She broke US law and then came to the US. If you break the law in China, for example by calling Tibet (or Hong Kong) a separate state on social media, you should fully expect to be arrested the next time you travel there. Extending further, if instead of China, you travel to a country friendly to China with an extradition treaty (ex. Russia or Nigeria), China is well within its rights to demand your arrest.
UK/EU citizen here (also having written this with a bottle of wine inside me :))

You know, I'm not a vegan, nor even a vegetarian. But as I've gotten older (I'm knocking on 52 - and god damn used to love a nicely cooked fillet steak!) I've found my eating habits tending more towards vegetarian. The last red meat I ate was a year ago...not through health reasons, but because I've kinda gone off it. I still eat some chicken, but even then it's a dwindling part of my diet.

I'm not an extremist, but as I've gotten older, I've begun to find the idea of eating another living being more than slightly repugnant. It's not that I've succumbed to vegan ideology, but I kinda got here by myself. I'm lucky to live in a rural area and bump into cows and sheep all the time. This may sound a bit odd, but I see them and interact with them and one day thought what nice affectionate(?)/curious animals and then, boom! would I kill and eat my cats?

I even recently realised that most of the clothes that I wear are mostly synthetic or cotton based, even the boots I wear. The thought of walking around in another being's slaughtered and dead skin kinda irked me for a few years so I try to buy "man-made" foot wear now.

I think the trick with becoming vegetarian (a starting point) and onto becoming vegan (though I still love eggs; if we treat egg layers nice, and if we treat cows nice can't we still have eggs and milk for a while?) we need to learn how to season and spice our meals to make them appealing.

I'm about 85% of the way there were it not for some dairy products, and in a rural area having better availability to a wider range of vegetables - which believe it or not doesn't happen. And also where I can buy individual carrots, onions, sweet potato by weight....etc (I'm single - don't need a bag of 20 carrots!).

I'm also not sure, philosophically, about the idea of creating synthetic meats to remind us of what it was like to eat a factory slaughtered animal - it seems like creating a video game to satisfy some needs to be 18th century slave owners.

If we had better knowledge about how to make vegetables more inviting, and more available, we wouldn't need this. I ate a vegetarian lasagne the other day, it was glorious. Sure some dairy products were involved but no cows died upside down in a factory being bolted through their skulls...but yes I am aware of the factory farming of milk cows to the tremendous detriment of their health and comfort.

Becoming vegan is a hard thing. I still crave Gressingham "chinese duck", pancakes and hoisin (I use my own, their's is shit).....but I am striving towards this. I genuinely don't think synthetic meats aid this cause.

I am also trying to become a better human and not exploit other living beings for my tastebud sensory gratification.
No one said anything about the federal government; state governments are just as absurd and just as divided.
I play D&D in person using a paper character sheet and physical dice, but I created that sheet using D&D Beyond. And most of the rest of the party uses D&D Beyond on iPads.

Holy hell is that more convenient for tracking spells and subtle rule interactions than what I used to have to do as a kid.

In my eyes, it's letting technology do what it does best -- get details right -- and frees up slightly more casual players to do the fun roleplaying part without being so bogged down.
Sounds like something that will be immediately abused. Pass
Do note that UB on integer overflow is (at least nowadays) more of a compiler wish for optimization reasons than it is technically necessary (your CPU will indeed just wrap around if you don't live in the 80s anymore, but a C++ compiler might have assumed that won't happen for a signed loop index).
I'd love a recommendation on a starter game (or a few!) if you find yourself with a minute! I play with a group who, including myself, are novices when it comes boardgames. Between 3-6 players most of the time. We found ourselves getting really into Puerto Rico and recently tried Terraforming Mars but didn't _love_ it. I think TR would be better on a second playthrough when we actually know the rules though :). I played Battlestar Galactica once as well and found it great! Looking at boardgamegeeks is a bit intense with the selection there so I'm hoping you might have a narrower range to suggest.
https://twitter.com/austenallred/status/1082363551178665985?...

There are multiple companies whose engineering headcount growth YOY is bigger than the total number of annual CS + bootcamp grads in the US.

Yes, there are a lot more engineers coming on board now. But the growth in demand is mind-boggling.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1082101947795091458?s=21

In case you were wondering whether the engineering hiring market was slowing down, here’s Amazon deploying probably every YC company combined on one product:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-says-it-has-over-10-000-...
Those are actual board games. The setup of a p&p like D&D or call of cthulhu consists of me getting our 8 sheets of paper, 4 pencils with rubbers and 2 dice.

The worst part is finding a time slot with 3 - 5 people.
I guess, if you squint just right -- but only in the same sense that it's true of most American English.

Those uses of "wee" (particularly the "urine" meaning) have been common in the US for far longer than I've been alive. Nobody thinks of them as "britishisms".
> This is like saying if I smoke weed in a country where it is legal and then go to a country B where it is illegal. Country B can arrest me because I broke their law.

This is the case for several countries, such as South Korea: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/23/bong-arm-of-th...
IRC is loaded with channels where games are occuring.
mostly closed channels but very rich and real world complex espescially if you have a channel of players roleplaying NPCs in character vs a channel of characters playing the adventure.
also echo dot understands what to do if i say echo roll 6d6.
Hopefully my experience could be useful, having tried rust-qt just a while ago on a project. Bottom line: it is usable.

It is pretty trivial if you want to build an almost purely QML app. As soon as you want to do some C++ stuff (e.g. registering new C++ classes, using QtWidgets), however, things go south very quickly. The main problem is that Qt has its own ideas about ownership (QObject-parent-stuff), and Rust really does not like that. You end of working a lot with raw pointers and boxes. It feels like you’re writing C++ but in Rust (if that makes sense).

Rust-qt is really nice IMO, and I would extremely encourage anyone interested to take a look, and provide more feedbacks and contributions to the maintainers (I am not one of them). Some non-trivial examples would help a lot. But expect sharp edges.
IMHO, Missing from the list is software defined networking and telco "digital transformation" in general. ISPs etc are gradually moving to an automated self-serve world.
And do you think the bondsmen don’t have an incentive to keep the status quo?

It’s a multi billion dollar industry which effectively taxes the poor.

Make bounties illegal and it fill fall, once it falls the entire bail system in the US will have to be rethought as there isn’t a way to lock so many people up, more judges will release them until trial without setting a bail which they can already legally do and do so for minor offenses.