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I wish they would release this into the supermarkets sooner than the end of the year though. I would love to include this in my weekly dinner options at home. I am not a vegetarian but I do like to mix things up and this will help to make one more dinner at home a veggie version.

The price is the key part right now. Hopefully they can scale this fast and reduce the prices. My guess is that they are doing a controlled release to ensure a better chance of success for the product. Early feedbacks should help to correct issues.
>checkout is slow

For me, this is it in a nutshell. I worked next door (as in a 30 foot walk) from a Sears and popped in to quickly grab a couple things in a 30 minute gap between meetings. In 10 minutes, I had what I wanted, and got in line to checkout. I was the 6th person in line...and eventually put my stuff down and walked out because I still hadn't managed to check out 20 minutes later. There was only one employee handling checkout, and that employee was moving at a slower-than-glacial pace. Even though several other employees were milling around the various departments, no one came over to help.

There are a lot of reasons Sears failed, but for me, making the most painful part of the process the part WHERE I GIVE THEM MONEY, was the last straw.
From my experience, it's often what should be simple understanding of workflow logic or specifics to the language/environment one is claiming knowledge of. My expectations at an interview level are extremely low, but still would pass at least 2/3 of candidates by.
I wish I could explain it better.

It is not some glib mantra like REST or SOLID or SCRUM that you can repeat over and over again and imagine that you understand something.

It's about the gap between the map and the territory which is the most mysterious and confusing place in the universe. (e.g. the "Dark Matter" is there)
>I've never bought anything from an ad

Do you mean any ad ever, or just a podcast ad? If it's the former that is a pretty bold claim.
While I agree exiting the Iran deal was a mistake, your links are pretty one-sided...

1) The Brookings Institute is a right-wing pay-to-play lobbying group: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brookings_Institution
2) Cato Institute is funded by the Koch Brothers: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cato_Institute
3) RAND Corp is partially funded by the US Govt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Not sure if changing the link would be appropriate, maybe a mod could put a sticky at the top of the thread?

Edit: No need to change the link, the article has been updated to reflect the changing situation. Can a mod please change the title to match? :)
Why is this entirely focused on what amounts to case-modding for an alleged supercomputer? Quantum computing advances are presumably not an industrial design challenge...
Why wouldn't you be able to eat the Impossible Burger? Does your family have a tradition of vegetarianism because you don't like the taste of beef?
do you have a SO or kids? I ask because my experience is this doesn't work as well when you move past single responsibility. It tends (a) reduce discretionary time and (b) push it earlier or later
You can find the Beyond Burger pretty easily now, especially in Whole Foods, but the taste can be off putting to people.
Our local grocery had that in the 1960s. As a toddler, I was fascinated by the mini-railway consisting of noisy steel rollers. It ran inside along the front wall behind the check-outs, did a u-turn thru a small hole, then outside along the front wall. A worker on the inside packed your groceries in brown paper bags and placed them on the rails. Another worker outside would load the bags from the rails to your car trunk when you arrived. Wow, that neuron hasn't fired in a long while.
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I'm a professional software engineer too and know what you mean. It sounds like you're thinking like an engineer. That's great for building things, not selling them.

You can have the best infrastructure, best pipelines, devops, security, frameworks, styleguides, libraries, etc. etc. Sadly none of that means you're building something anybody wants.

You can spend years building something undoubtedly technically amazing. Yet if you didn't make sure there was a market first you face the very real prospect that people will go "That's nice, why do I care?"

Your advice is great for a personal project that you don't intend to directly make money with. Still would be excellent on a resumé however.
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Bummer it doesn't have a built in cushioned bench
ITT: Nice to have no kids. :D
> Progressive (when used in the context of taxes), does not mean this. It means that contribution increases progressively with income.

That is the same thing once you account for where the tax money goes, which it is unreasonable not to do.

For example, if you have a 25% tax that pays for a $10,000 UBI, there is a single marginal rate but the tax system is progressive because the effective rate is a curve. Someone at $20,000 pays $5000 and receives $10,000, net $5000, an effective tax rate of -25%. The effective tax rate is 5% at $50,000, 12.5% at $80,000, increasing asymptotically to 25% with higher incomes.

Compare this with a version of social security that charged higher marginal rates for higher income people, but all benefits are still paid out in proportion to what each person paid in multiplied by their lifespan. There is nothing progressive about this -- if everyone lived the same amount of time it would be exactly breakeven, and since in practice the rich live longer it thereby becomes regressive.
Its cultural roots go back to a startup, however.
Don't tell The Oatmeal!
In France I have seen a clear growth in the variety of products commonly available (which is great). Regarding taste it is still not clearly better than actual meat but I have tasted good supermarket-bought vegetarian burgers.

In Germany's supermarket, I found the kind of food I find in France's shops that specialize in healthy food.
No but if I have a strong desire to kill an enemy I could invent something to make me better at killing.

All modern military technology and the technology that spawned from it such as the Saturn V or the hydrogen bomb were invented because of the desire to inflict violence on an enemy. Creativity is a tool; violence, hatred and competition is a driving force.

That is not to discount empathy and altruism as driving forces but to ignore hatred and violence as things that have human shaped progress (and improved society technologically) is to ignore reality.
Oh, what a silly gentile you are. It's better for all of us, and peace! We all want peace, we don't want killed babies and puppies. Don't question it.
Thinking a little more, if the time-stamp changes did bubble up, then just start making changes at the leaves of the tree; at each leaf, work back to the root on the unique path to the root; and at each directory make a change in the time-stamp of that directory if and only if the new time-date stamp would be more recent than the old one; and, if don't make a change at that directory, then are DONE on that path. Revision, to make this work, first set all the directory time-date stamps to, say, year 1776. This solves the problem that the directories closer to the root may be on the path of several leaves and get changed several times. To identify the leaves, that is, directories with no subdirectories, get the directory tree names and just sort them into ascending order. Then a leaf directory and all the directories on the path from that leaf back to the root will sort together with the leaf directory the last one of those that sort together. That is, a directory is a leaf if and only if it is not on the path to the root (not an initial substring, using whole directory names) of the next directory in the sort. In particular, the last directory in the sort is necessarily a leaf. Ah, an algorithm!

I don't want now to further characterize or change the wording on what the startup is doing. My best word is the one I used, "meaning".
"traditional health benefits" means "bullshit health benefits", right?
You pretend to have a product, and try to sell it -- market it, advertise, etc. If you get people trying to buy it / use it, you know you're going in the right direction.

So yes, basically you bullshit everyone with some mockups and a pretty website, to determine if anyone would even be interested in the thing you want to build.
> to place enormous financial pressure on an economy so that the population revolts agains the government in question

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the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
Actually the US has a stellar track record of inciting revolutions in Iran.

(just not intentionally)
No, but I've worked in a few co-working spaces and the experience has always been the same. I expected Regus to be a little more grown-up but it appears not?

From what I've read about wework, I certainly won't be a customer any time soon.
Is that reeealy so different from a PoW fork?
Cool, going to try this on my Daydream setup right now.

Chrome on Daydream presents a super simplified UI. I'd love to be able to open a few tabs, move them around spatially, adjust the size, etc.

There is so much potential for improving browsing experiences in VR.
Bezos himself has stated:

> "Amazon is not too big to fail ... In fact, I predict one day Amazon will fail," Bezos reportedly said when addressing a question about Sears recently going bankrupt. "Amazon will go bankrupt. If you look at large companies, their lifespans tend to be 30-plus years, not a hundred-plus years."

> "If we start to focus on ourselves, instead of focusing on our customers, that will be the beginning of the end ... We have to try and delay that day for as long as possible."

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-says-amazon-will-...
You may not like it (I don't either), but calling professional illustrations "infantile" is somewhat absurd.
Technological progress has always been a series of overlapping S-curves. We all think it’s new when we notice the pattern, but it’s been going on forever.

The pace of aviation tech progress in the early half of the 20th century had most believing everyone would be flying hypersonic by now, but then the tech flattened out as it approved its asymptote.
As a parent of a T1D, statements like these are mildly infuriating. I'm sure you're joking, of course, but being resigned to some idea that you are going to develop type 2 at some point is lazy and lame.
Don't forget the bootcamps. A company I departed about two years ago was in a Regus spot. We watched 4 bootcamps in 3 years pop up for 6-8 weeks at a time, graduate a "class", pack up and leave.
I'm not familiar with how GSM networks operate. Why would I send a request to Huawei or Ericsson? Don't they just provide networking equipment? Or do they also provide services, part of which may be relevant for end user privacy?
In case anyone is wondering: not worth the read unless you're just interested in the history of dystopic fiction. The characters are boring and everything drags on far too long.
Sure, if the things you're doing before work require willpower to pursue. They don't have to be. And jriot's point in my sibling comment is in any case well made.
Not-a-real-phone-number accounts have a much higher than average probability of being a bot or a scammer. (That's because scammers can automate signing up for voip numbers; getting a thousand real Verizon numbers is much harder.) And Venmo had a strong financial incentive to ban signups that look like bots and scammers.

If Venmo were a brick and mortar business, they could just ask you to come by a local office so they can verify your ID in person. But they don't have a local office; so the reasonable and profitable solution is to preemptively ban you.
The other thing I am not seeing in the comments is that most store bought meat from big chains like Vons, Krogers, Walmart, etc- doesn't really taste that good. When cooked, likely chewy, dry and tasting "off".
When we think of the "good burger" bite, we arnet thinking of discount ground meat from the market, we are thinking of a good burger from some restaurant.
An incredible execution with no good idea is also pretty meaningless, so clearly having a good idea must be some sort of force multiplier and thus have value.
My wife had the same experience teaching at a CC. The school accepted anybody who applied, and they pressured professors to pass everyone regardless of their grades because they just wanted the tuition money. She stopped teaching there after 1 semester because she said it felt like being a babysitter and salesperson instead of a teacher.
Pretty cool, what time do you go to sleep at?
That method indeed works nicely for a simple ranch in a nice climate. It doesn't work as well when you have multiple attics, vaulted ceilings, multiple floors, and twenty inches of attic insulation.
Dynamically inserted ads could be automatically removed. Live reads are more difficult. It would require natural language processing, which is out of reach for now (but help is welcome!)

Adblock Radio as a proxy is totally feasible (Pi-Hole like https://pi-hole.net/). I am currently working on this.
You're correct, although I would say the Iran deal is still relevant to Iran sanctions in the general sense.
For pranayama I practice things like nadi sodhana, bhastrika, and visama vrtti, with kumbhakas depending on what I'm doing.

My meditation is probably closest to what people call vipassana these days -- it's watching the breath or another meditation object without any active control of it (which isn't completely correct, as attention does affect the breath). Pranayama on the other hand is an active manipulation of the breath.
Foreign advisories have all kinds of failed/stupid strategies for inducing revolution! Hasn't stopped America from a never-ending sanction game with Iran or Russia from a never-ending election game with America or China from... the list goes on and on.
I really miss the bees, last year I went to a redwood park and saw no insects there, it was disheartening.
The goal of the sanctions is to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The sanctions cause economic harm, forcing Iran to the negotiating table.

It's not anyone's goal to overthrow Iran. No one want to clean up the mess. There are already enough messes in that region already (afghanistan, iraq, syria, yemen).
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While I agree with this use case (and is why I hate co-working spaces for what I do), that's a pretty narrow slice of the market given their current valuation.
That's because everyone has an opinion, and everyone's[1] gone to at least elementary school.

If I were made king of the world, I'd have a lot of ideas about how to reform education (after I'd take some time to throw sand in Billy's face, as payback for three years of playground bullying.)

[1] Just about everyone, at least.
Brookings and Rand are considered centrist, Rand sometimes center left, and Cato is conservative. I linked them because the case has already been made on the left, the case is usually being made to the right, so conservative sources would be relevant here.
That sounds like concern trolling, but I'll bite: a meta analysis of controlled trials is unequivocal https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224
I laughed out loud when I got to the part about the PDP-11 emulation being written to run on the emulated PDP-7. That cranks up the hack value to 11.
Okay, Maddox.
How's that infantile ?

As far as I can see all the people are more or less drawn anatomically correct and IMO it looks good.

Have you ever seen something drawn by an infant ?
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When did the venerable New York Times turn into a comic book?

Anyway, far from being an "important job" this is an example of inexcusable waste. Casually using throw-away plastic junk for something as pointless as "separating the flavors", when I'm just going to shove both of those things into my mouth anyway without bothering to rinse out my mouth and cleanse my palate with bland crackers, is beyond the pale. With our precarious global environmental situation, we should be criticizing not apologizing for frivolous waste like this.

And for this matter, stop giving me free plastic forks or chopsticks every time. I own my own reusable stainless steel utensils.
I really hope I can continue to live close enough to bike or walk to work. It makes a huge difference in alertness when starting the day with some activity versus driving to the office.
Which includes a firm opt-in, which none of these does.
Dunno, I started out with a lot of perl-cgi, and now do mostly react/redux/material-ui on the front end... I've picked up a lot of backend stuff over the years. SQL/PostgreSQL/Firebird/DB2/Oracle/mySQL, mongo, aws, azure, rethinkdb, rabbitmq, etc... The key is to not rest and constantly be learning/growing. That includes line of business knowledge.

I love this kind of work. Writing learning software for airplane systems. Accounting and auditing systems for fortune 100. Kiosk+POS for water distribution platforms. Security software. Election services software... It's been an amazing 24 years, and I have absolutely every intention to keep learning/working until I die.

I find that a lot of people just think that "web dev" stops at the browser.
And, another novel about living under oppressive conditions from a Russian-born author:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_the_Living
Maybe, but one shouldn't discount the amount of documentation that Apple pushes. Look at Objective-C programmers in the age of Swift. Its rather hard to be on the outside of the preferred language.
We'll train the falcons to drop Faraday nets on them.
Ah I see, that makes more sense. So basically the court case looks at the pool of patents each company has, and one that has a lot of patents related to the industry it's involved in looks more legit than a potential patent troll holding a bunch of totally unrelated stuff. Is that more or less correct?

Sorry for contradicting you earlier. That still seems like a crazy way to manage IP, but after all I haven't got a better solution. Thanks for explaining. In my career I haven't been expected to produce patents very often. I'll try to remain a bit more humble.
The problem is that your usage of the phrase "complete protein" doesn't really make sense here. Three impossible burgers do in fact provide complete protein for a whole day, meaning they provide the RDA of all essential amino acids for an average adult.

And that would be true even if the burger consisted only of wheat protein. The listed ingredients include protein from wheat, soy, and potato, so it's quite possible that the amino profile is close to optimal. But again, that doesn't really mean anything in practice, unless you want to try to survive on just a couple of impossible burgers per day.

In other words, scrutinizing amino acid profiles has almost no benefit in a practical diet. Even if you're a vegan, if you eat a sensible amount and variety of protein during the day (grains, beans, nuts, etc) then your daily amino intake will be readily completed.
>>And by the early 90s Sears had a century of experience as a catalog fulfillment company and had pretty much become synonymous with the concept.

Probably an impediment, instead of being an asset. A newcomer can see things differently: pick the right things and discard the wrong ones. Good luck with a 100 year old company.
>the forces of greed

Of course. Greed drives only those fishy defense corporations. Any other for-profit organization is driven purely by desire to change the world for the better. Like Facebook, you know...

You can do defense right, you can do it wrong. But you can't do it at all. Like it or not.
If they provided caption text so it wasn't as accessibility hostile then it might be somewhat excusable.

As it was, trying to read the handwriting was definitely annoying.
An artist and illustrator can use fonts or create their own.
> [For many problems, a behemoth company has no reason to improve, and a lean startup can rush to a solution faster in many cases.

This is 50% of the thesis of The Innovator's Dilemma, the book that introduced MBAs to the the word "disruption".

The other half if why this happens to behemoth companies, which is that they are listening to their customers. In this case, the customers are those who are OK with waiting 3 weeks and would just like a wider selection or lower prices. People who would but if delivery were faster by definition aren't customers.

Startups have to address the non-customers because otherwise they'd have to pry them away from their existing supplier -- generally a much tougher task.
Thanks for the fool.com article it was a very interesting read.
There are plenty of mechanisms to counter this. One is direct funding of colleges as we did before via state and Federal funding. Another is to establish a feedback loop where loan guarantees and funding for the institution are a function of their students default rate: that way if the education doesn't lead to jobs then the school gets less money.
Here in Germany Amazon had books and later other products. Fast shipping came way later. And even now their shipping is not really that impressive. 2 days most of the time with prime. 2-3 days is normal for most stores
I'm confident you could work in the morning if you readjusted your sleeping habits. And there are a ton of jobs out there that start later in the day or have flexible work hours.
Most of the meat they eat now comes from factory farms, you can't get much closer yo manufactured food than that.
You also have to consider that signing an office lease is a long term commitment and can be a lot of hassle. WeWork is probably worth the price for young companies that just want to focus on getting more important things done than renovating and decorating an office that may end up being too small (or too big) after a few months.

I'm working out of the Factory in Berlin for about 100 euro a month. Very nice space facilities, nice people, etc. and it matches my "I might drop in a couple of times a week" type usage. There are loads of co-working spaces here.

I've been in one of the local WeWorks as well (apparently they have 9 offices now in Berlin) and in my experience the space is alright but a bit less so than the Factory. But it did suit the project I was on at the time perfectly and we were there for a few months before we outgrew the space. I'd say it's perfect for seed funded companies or well funded corporate projects. It makes less sense for indivduals looking for a desk as they tend to be comparatively expensive to competitors or coffeeshops. I suspect their corporate revenue is a bit more lucrative.
https://github.com/bolknote/SedChess another one
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Technically she uses original VI on a Sun Solaris. That thing is still kicking. It's delightful, really.
> "Outlawing business" (i.e. sanctions) are being used to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

If you're talking about the current US sanctions, I think you're wrong. The deal ensured Iran could not develop nuclear weapons, through a strict regime of inspections. Without the deal, there are no inspections anymore and Iran is free to develop said weapons.

It seems that the real purpose of the sanctions is to weaken Iran so that its enemies in the region (Israel, Saudi Arabia) have a freer hand in doing as they please.
Was curious as to how tests like these guard against Goodhart's law (If goodheart's law is applicable here at all)?
Open the FB Redirect page in an Incognito/Private browsing session to deal with that. Note that the FB page itself needs to be in the private browsing session, that way the referral data gets passed when you click on the WSJ link.