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If you don't want to touch the topic, then don't. It's quite obvious outdated nature of consoles hardware is holding developers back, and "consolization" spills out to PC gaming, to the irritation of many gamers. You don't need gaming articles to know that.

> That's probably what you refer to as "consolization"

No, I refer to cut down design, oversimplified interfaces, lack of depth and etc. which were characteristic for console games, backfiring to PC games, when developers don't want to do extra work and simply use "one size fits all" method to save time.

Technical limitations is only part of the problem. The bigger one I'd say is the incumbents' control over the platform and heavy mass market bend. Quality has many meanings, and poor art (in many meanings of the word art, not simply graphics like you might think) caused by mass market commercialization can justifiably be understood as reduced quality.

So, I'll stick to what I said. Incumbent consoles didn't save games from worse quality, they actually made them worse.
Not employees, representatives. These are things which employees of Gab have said in their official capacity representing the company (for instance, on Gab official social media accounts).
Poland is rightfully scared of Russia and would do anything USA asks. But it's also too small to deal with China's wrath.

Tit-for-tat, I doubt he was just discovered as a spy
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Citation? There are certainly rich Asians who immigrate, but I know plenty of people who immigrated and are absolutely not rich at all.

Many Asians who immigrate have little to nothing except an education, some don't even have that. We brought many over during the time frame of the Vietnam war who had nothing at all.
Isn't this technique used for viruses to escape detection?
How are you testing... urine strips? For me, I can feel the difference in my brain when I change over. It's subtle, but I'd compare it to the change in feeling when you drink caffeine after not drinking it for too long.
Right?

I find the whole affair super compelling.

No way I have time for it though.
I guess the attorney general is going to stay silent on this?
Apple doesn't sell data to third parties, so Apple doesn't do that.
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> but Google has never given people access to my real time location.

As long as your Google account remains secured and no one manages to sneak a 2nd Google Account on your phone, that is. Find My Phone is a real time tracker that can be abused e.g. by spouses or stalkers. IIRC only triggering the "audible ring" leaves a trace on the phone (a notification + the obvious sound), to check if someone used FMP for tracking one has to dive deep into the Google Activity Logs.

Only way to protect yourself is, of course, to disable GPS on the phone - but what if you want to use Maps or another navigation at the same time?
I'm kind of confused here- you mentioned Plato, but wasn't Plato a professional culture generator?
I don't think that's the case at all.

As far as I know, advertisers never receive personal information from Google. Google hordes the personal information and shows advertisements (provided by the advertisers) to their users, using their personal information.

It would be rather contrary to their interests if they were to send their user's data to other parties. They'd lose their commercial leverage and their ad network would become less valuable.
> nstead, you wrote "I'm not sure what point you and the author are trying to make". I'm willing to believe that was a mistake, if you'll simply say "ok, I made a mistake. I was in disagreement with the author."

1. I am not mistaken. Your opinion of Jackie Chan "paying too high of a price" for his fame is an idea that the author shares. It is literally written throughout the article that you summarized. It's effectively part of your summary.

2. Even if the first point wasn't true, and you have the unlikely and uncommon habit of quoting things that you have no opinion over; it doesn't matter. I was still arguing against your opinion of Chan paying a high price for fame. Your focus on whether or not the author had the same idea serves as a distraction from you either not being able to come up with an effective counter argument, or maybe even changing your opinion since it seems like you are distancing yourself from it.

"I'm not sure what point you are trying to make"

Happy?
Pardon the ignorance, what does it mean to "pull a Zenefits"?
People are talking about total compensation, not just cash.
The difference exists only to the point that Google is an ethical owner of the data. I'm concerned that Google is in the business selling products based on a monopoly of consumer data. These products are likely to become more and more invasive as time goes on.. It's possible that a future Google product will become a larger threat to privacy than geolocation because they have a wider variety of data collected.

In summary, today's Google handles geolocation much better than telecom companies, but the mass of personal data Google collects makes their potential future activity concerning.
Every company follows the law of each country they are in unless they are criminals. China is a country that affords no privacy.
In the Bay Area. The restrictions were from a mix of Hindu and Muslim. They made official complaints to upper management that effectivly banned the occasional lunch time beers and Friday afternoon drinks. It was one or two beers, it’s not like people were getting belligerent. After the complaints the only sanctioned events were vegetarian restaurants that didn’t serve alcohol.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. If you already know where someone is, what's the point of using targeted ads to try to locate them?

The point of OP is that I can't use targeted ads to answer the question "Person X: where are they?".
It's hard to lose weight.
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Because it happens in the lexer, and depending on how you design your symbol table lookups, you may want to use the same hash function for all table lookups, instead of calculating different hashes for each table. Symbol table lookups can compare hash value first (store the full hash code per entry) to skip the expensive string comparison too.

Perfect hashing isn't always what you want in any case. For many languages, especially symbolically flavoured ones like C, most strings found by the lexer aren't keywords. A hash table which is mostly empty and is statically verified not to contain keyword collisions is ideal. Keep the hash code calculation separate, and do it only once. Little point in repeatedly calculating it.
The flamey part wasn't the link, but the use of snark to make a shallow political point.

We can't read all the comments on HN, or even in any large thread, so that logic doesn't work. If you take the time to check, you'll see that we've often moderated comments that cross the line in the opposite ideological direction. Ideological rage is destructive here regardless of which charge it carries.
So did they keep it that way purely for historical reason and back-compat? Few people write self-modifying code (or even code loaders) these days, it seems like a tricky feature to implement in hardware for relatively little gain.
> Big and complex organizations are required in order to build big and complex things. And it turns out that it works best by having bosses.

Is that true? Having bosses has been proven as the best way to organise big and complex organisations?

In a capitalist economy a hierarchical organisational structure is for sure the overwhelmingly most common structure, but there is an alternative; a flat non-hierarchical structure such as in a worker's co-operative.[1][2]

I'd like to see a study comparing the two and drawing a conclusion as to which is best.

[1] http://www.morningstarco.com/

[2] http://www.enliveningedge.org/organizations/morning-stars-su...
I had almost as many kernel panics on a 2016 Macbook Pro over a bit over a year of using it

I'm still rocking my 2012 Macbook Pro. It's been solid.

The only OS I haven't had kernel panics on in recent memory is, indeed, Windows starting with 7, but I have a long list of other reasons I can't/don't/won't use it as my daily driver.

I can only stand to do my development on a windows machine by using a Linux VM.
You are absolutely right: The mere fact that these publishers don't block Google using robots.txt and that they in fact spend a lot of effort optimizing their metadata so that link previews show up just the way they want them to proves that it's at least mutually beneficial, and not an abuse of their intellectual property.
> In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said...

I always wondered why USA places so much focus on the Presidents wife? I'm not an American but I know more American leaders wives than I know spouses for all other country leaders together... Isn't that insane? I've never heard anyone talk about spouses of leaders in other countries. Do you know who Merkels husband is? Did you ever hear about David Cameron's wife?

So who is pushing that story? Why is Michelle still in the spotlight? Why was she ever in the spotlight? Why does anyone cares what she thinks?
Yeah you just end up with race conditions everywhere causing corruption and data loss. See active-model-serializers 0.10.8 release that just found a race condition where serializers would share state across threads making the default Rails web server (puma) completely unsafe.
Yep, I don't see that changing either, but I wasn't sure. The game isn't like that because it's good for the players, but because it keeps the game on a very low-frequency variable reinforcement schedule, which is what makes it so addictive.
It's a scam because the equity have any decision making power. It's still controlled by a small group of people aka the board of directors, the stock structure is setup that fans could not mount a hostile takeover. It's called ownership, but it's not, it has no value, it cannot ever be sold back, it doesn't grant you any say over how the team operates. The Packers are not a community owned organization, it's operates no different than any other NFL team, decisions are not made by the fans. The Packers aren't really community owned organization, a real community owned organization whose members have actual power over the organization. Those are very few and far between, are generally non profits, and in the end, no ability for outside investors to get the profits they're looking for, thus they won't bother to invest.

You hear from time to time small to mid sized business that are "employees owned and operated" but that doesn't mean every employee has the same equity, the generally ownership will have the largest stake anyway with employees having very little control or equity compared to ownership
It's one of those worlds that doesn't matter to outsiders but means everything if you're inside it. Kind of like academia, or prison gangs.
Pensions have frequently been reduced in the US, making such long term obligations somewhat less dangerous.

Lack of large scale migration means people actually like living there even if they don’t like specific aspects. SC on the other hand seems to be in a far worse situation without any clear mechanics for improving the situation.

PS: Looking at federal spending you can see many states are already on life support.
It's simple. Apple doesn't use location data in their products. Google does. Apple specifically avoids these types of products. Google's main revenue stream depends on them.
The organization does, it's a non profit, it gets reinvested into the team coffers to be spent. There's no dividend or anything like that.
Drink virgin drinks. I go through frequent periods of not drinking that don't inhibit me from going to bars or going on business lunches.

It doesn't escape me that these people are women. My wife has had similar experience in literally every other opt in social activity in our field. Have you considered that maybe it's not a hazard of not drinking, but rather a consequence of being a woman in a professional world that is hostile to them?
Your comment doesn't make any sense. Wireless carriers will always have access to location (based on cell towers) and don't have successful advertising businesses.
From everything I've seen a projector "just working" seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

My experience with Macbooks has been excellent. Even Airplay over an Apple TV just does the right thing with presenter view in Keynote just working. The one time I had a rotten experience on a Macbook was when I had to use Zoom.
I'll chime in and say, the social stuff has never been a problem when I've done keto. Out at bars, I'll have whiskey + diet cokes, gin + club sodas, basically anything that's a shot and a calorie-free mixer and you're good.

Eating out, most cuisines you can adapt. Nowhere serves a keto pizza, for example, but even stuff like Indian, there's a buffet where if you avoid the rice and legume-based stuff and stick to meats and veg, you're in good shape.

Eating at friends' places is the one tricky thing, but these days people are pretty cool with it if you decline food based on a dietary restriction.

Giving up snacks or junky foods like breakfast cereal is the hardest for me, but there's a great keto porridge recipe I like -- add a handful of berries and it's still 2-3 grams carbs but filling and good.

Longest I stuck with it so far was 6 months, for accelerated weight loss, and now I prefer a lower-carb diet but am no longer strict about keto stuff.

Best outcome was breaking my relationship to food -- like it rewired the part of my brain that was all "satiate your hunger with sugary junk" to where I can satisfy hunger cravings with a handful of nuts, or even a hot tea with cream. That seems to be permanent so far.
I am not sure if it is because I am getting old, but have found Paul's old writing more resonating than ever.
It would be by necessity less of a killer as people didn't live as long. The average age of death in those times was late thirties, far lower than the common age of cancer in the mid to late 60s. Keep in mind that sanitation, food preparation, medical science, and clean water were all huge advances in life spans and general health.

The PBS series "How We Got to Now" is a great resource for the huge advances in health made in the 19th and 20th centuries.
python has mypy types and most places are switching to typescript over javascript. If you work with more than a handful of developers (and as such on a project large enough to require them) not having types DRASTICALLY decreases productivity.
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Are you from the South? The author was from Georgia. Believe me, we have plenty of fried chicken around here. It gives us a break from the barbecue.
A company is composed of people, redo the math.
And even harder to not find it again.
While being obese and having a healthy heart is totally viable, it get's harder in the long run as age compounds with weight. Can you be healthier than the lazy? Oh yes, but the extra weight can catch up to you, regardless of lifestyle.
That's extremely wrong and dangerous advice.

Exercise is absolutely essential for healthy weight loss unless your sole focus is on lost mass. Exercising while dieting (meaning restricting calories) minimizes the loss of muscle tissue when trying to lose >1 lb/week. If you're losing >2lb/week dieting without exercise, a sizable portion of the weight loss is actually muscle.

It is possible to take the exercise to an unhealthy extreme, such as on Biggest Loser, where they exercised to the point of causing muscle damage/rhabo, but that's the exceptional case, not the norm.

Exercise absolutely helps weight loss. 100%.
The real problem is that we don't have a more effective capital model. While there's lots of experiments in funding going on, no-one's really figured out a risk model that works in good times let alone bad.

Fundamentally new businesses fail at a high rate, it's the nature of new businesses. But that means cost of capital is going to be high to cover the cost, but without high-growth it's hard to justify that cost (and that's not even getting into things like fraud which are a big reason new businesses can't get financing)
> But there is a trend that they are trying to point out, which is an inherent bias of the majority population who receive a greater share of opportunities than any other group in this nation, which is shown by things like overall increased income, increased job opportunities, increased representation in government, increased representation on corporate boards, increased representation in the media and entertainment, etc. It's not hard to see that it's been a "white man's world" for a long time now and it's only starting to be rolled back.

These ethnically-focused statistics are so incredibly pointless and misguided, I don't know why anyone would want to bring them up other than to be purposefully divisive. What's the "median household income" among blue-collar, poor whites in the Midwest? In the Rust Belt? What about their "share" of national "opportunities"? You're focusing on what's literally a tiny bit of information about an individual (a handful of bits, at best)-- namely their racial/ethnic heritage-- and treating it like it's the One thing that Explains Everything about our society, or at least our "cultural norms". That makes zero rational sense, the only reason such an argument might appeal to us is cognitive bias.
It is a complete lifestyle change (nutrition and exercise)...plain and simple. Any other approach sets you up for failure (I need to lose x pounds for new years, I need to lose this for an event, etc).

It is also very much discipline (not motivation..) and hard work to get started and maintain for a while. Like pretty much anything. But after a few years of feeling great you will wonder why you ever lived your previous life.

At least in my experience :)
The thing is, it's not griefing, that's the game. Without this stuff, no one would want to play, it'd be boring.
Have you considered that this type of marketing is actually counterproductive? If a company spams me, and I notice it, it's guaranteed that I will avoid them like the plague, regardless of how good their service is. This is poisoning the well. It might get >5% of the people spammed interested, but what if the other 95%?
How strict are you being with carbs?
Define reasonable because to the VC taking the large risk, 5% YoY isn't the goal.
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What do you want? Do you want a system to play with for your own learning? Or do you want to build a shipping product?

If for your own learning, do you want a full-powered environment? Or do you want a simple system that you can learn all of, even if it's more of a toy?

If it's a shipping product, do you care more about ease of development, or about total parts cost? (The difference is often quantity that you expect to ship - 10 cents in part costs matters if you expect to make 100 million of them.)
California recently passed legislation that will kick in Jan 1, 2020: https://www.caprivacy.org/

The CCPA explicitly prohibits the re-sale of personal data, so it will at least impact the demand from data resellers of the location data in question, for example -- in theory, anyway.

It also gives consumers the right to request their personal data be deleted. It's, however, unclear how this would impact location data telcos are selling.

As other states begin to consider their own legislation, many are pushing for federal legislation that supersedes state laws, for obvious reasons. That will be worth keeping an eye on.
I trust Google a lot more than I trust all of these telcos. I think the big difference is while Google does have pretty much all my info, I know they do and roughly what they do with it. Flip side, I know the cell providers have some of my info but I've no idea what happens to it once it's sold.
So, a follow up is this court case victory announced today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46834533

> Four working single mothers have won a High Court challenge over the government's universal credit scheme.

> They argued a "fundamental problem" with the system meant their monthly payments varied "enormously", leaving them out of pocket and struggling financially

Note that these are working mothers.
True, I guess you could see "the comment thread" as the larger (collaborative) intellectual work within which the movie was quoted for illustrative purposes.
I thought "Big Swinging Dicks" was a purely figurative term.
The point is, speed cameras are just a bad solution.

At best, they're a passive aggressive way of exerting government control over citizens. At worst, they're a revenue-increasing mafia-protection-like tool.

If you actually want to protect pedestrians, you build physical "traffic calming" obstacles like speed bumps or chicanes [1]. Switzerland is full of these, and they're very effective. There's really no good reason to have speed cameras (although red light cameras might be a better idea), especially on the motorway (Germany manages without motorway speed limits, so clearly they're not necessary to have a functioning society).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicane#Traffic_calming
The fact that the authors don't (when they surely must be aware) makes you wonder if they're on the take somehow.

Or have been pressured into silence.
I'm kind of confused here- you mentioned Plato, but wasn't Plato a professional culture generator?

Note, I didn't say that everything professional culture generators produced was fundamentally wrong and poisonous and would instantly result in your mental and spiritual death.
Regular exercise can help with metabolism, appetite suppression, overall energy level, and overall feeling of well-being. Eating habits are more important, but exercise is generally beneficial.

I agree with you about carbohydrate addiction.
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> Alcohol should not be a key factor for people to network and have fun, especially in professional spaces.

It's not called "social lubricant" for nothing.

While we're far and away from the Madmen era all day drinkathons, it is certainly acceptable in professional spaces and capacities for a little alcohol to be shared.

It's certainly not required, but I wouldn't say it's unprofessional to have a couple drinks at a professional event offering them.
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I have a pretty limited understanding, but at first, I would think you would have this the other way around? The US uses a case law system where precedential judicial proceedings modify how the law works in practice relative to how they got written. Besides the UK, most of the EU has a statutory law system, where the law gets applied as written with less regard for previous judicial decisions.

So, the short version of the question, in regard to your original comment, how so..?
why do we keep running a faster mile, jumping a longer jump, lifting a heavier weight, etc.?

Even if there were no improvements at all we would expect this for no other reason than the statistics of an increasing population of athletes and our effort to pick out only the far right tail of the distribution.

Having said that, nutrition is just better now, for almost everyone, compared to the ancient Greeks. So you would also expect more athletes to come out of today's society than you would back then.
Very true, my mind was stuck on tech VC since the 70s, but yeah the idea of buying equity in a venture isn't new.
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That's your moral view, but you missed my point which is that it's incompatible with a florishing ecosystem of open source software.
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ATmega1284 has 128K8 of Flash and 16K8 of RAM, so if you have the right balance of readonly data, you can have the same number of bits as on the 709 (and if you count eeprom, you're slightly ahead ;-)