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> Are there toll roads in the US that don't accept cash?

One example, FastTrack express lanes in the Bay area (unlike the lanes on bridges, there is no cash-accepting substitute.)
So we should just ignore the terrorist's clearly stated strategy, and then go right along with it?
I don't have answers to your question but I guess it's fairly easy to either get a remote job or work as a freelancer these days.

Depending on the country you visit / your home country it might be straight up illegal to work (visa limitations). In most countries you'll need a legal status (insurances, taxes, &c).

You can game the system and probably get away with it for a while but when you eventually will settle down and need proof of income or other documents it'll be a pain. It's not a deal breaker per say but look into these things seriously.
I've gone over almost completely to DDG as well, for at least the last few years, but have noticed that DDG has been ignoring required terms more often lately. But they're still better than Alphagoog.

DDG has a feedback mechanism (the almost invisible "Send Feedback" thing in the lower right corner), but I'm unsure if anyone there actually sees the feedback and cares enough to do anything about it -- as I said, the problem is getting worse over time.

And while I'm on my soapbox, I'm going to continue complaining about having to use quote pairs instead of + for required terms. That still _really_ grinds my gears.
I'm thinking more of media sites that rely on ad dollars to pay the bills. Unless they have a direct subscription option or other way to pay for the service, you're eating into their bottom line. The real world analog would be newspapers and the ads they run.
Expectation is one thing and Term is another. Is it possible to raise seed funds with the expectation of early profitability? This is very much like your approach but still with a seed investment just without Series A handcuff terms.

Google did something like this. They wanted to avoid VC as much as possible and when they did get an A round it was on their terms.
looks nice! unfortunately when I try to select a color from the wheel, the line switches to a horizontal position (dark blue o----o bright orange) and gets stuck there :(

[Android 7.1.2, Chrome 73]
You actually need to look at the amount of lead exposure not just when leaded gas was first used.
Facebook's own announcement is titled "Keeping Passwords Secure"[0]

Facebook comms: You can't really use the word "keep" when the entire post is about how you have failed to keep passwords secure, by storing it in plaintext.

Or at least, you probably shouldn't use that word. It signals that you intend to keep doing what you're doing, which wasn't just keeping passwords insecure up until sometime in January.

It's up until today when you effectively disclosed that you haven't notify hundreds of millions of users that their passwords were compromised for months after discovering it. I know they "were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook", but that group still includes some +25K people.

[0] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/keeping-passwords-secur...
The Witcher Blood and Wine expansion actually did a great job with this. There is a main storyline quest where you enter a haunted painting
I'm Watching Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe (2019) on Flixtor.to
It's not a satisfying answer really, but I use a bunch of log statements. It's definitely not as good as a debugger, but 9 times out of 10, it's sufficient.
Disincentivising a predatory rental market only lowers the cost of housing prices because it excludes buy-to-rent commercial landlording. Properties don't disappear from the market just because there's no landlord able to buy them. Granted this needs to be coupled with further disincentivising of the current stock being rented.
It's been my experience as well. Since you're tired all day, you end up not making good use of your time. I would space out more often and when I got home, instead of doing useful things, I'd just sit on the couch and chill. When you look back, since one did so little that day, it seems like it's shorter.
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Good on Wikimedia, they could use this opportunity to become a monopoly of free knowledge in Europe (since they are explicitly exempt), but they choose to fight for the right of those smaller websites.
I wonder if it would be worth it for long tail revenues from streaming? I can’t imagine the HD widescreen remaster of The Wire selling lots of new DVDs (it was completed in late 2014 [0]), but it made the show a lot more appealing for continued rewatching over the years.

0: https://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/
So was the budget, hence the court case.
Railways also have the externality of stopping all traffic.

More of an issue for lumbering freight trains than passenger trains though.
Seems quite odd that people keep trying to steal worthless property.
So this article is largely about the changes in technology, namely that with a high barrier to entry and when distribution was predicated on moving physical products, times were good for musicians selling the media of the time (records, CDs).

But this article makes the same mistake pretty much every article decrying the zero cost of distribution (ie the Internet) and the inevitable piracy, it ignores a key point: at probably every point in this era only a very few musicians could ever earn a living just from selling recorded music.

The primary source of income for the majority of musicians has been for performances. Even in the Internet/MP3 era, people still want to see live music. Maybe that's not attractive to those who want to sit at home collecting royalties but getting in front of a live audience and playing music was, is and will continue to be a potential source of a living.

And while the income from recorded music situation is unquestionably worse than, say, 50 years ago, we also no longer have record companies and radio stations as the gatekeepers of taste. Anyone can publish digital music to Spotify, Youtube, Soundcloud, etc so it's not all bad.

So whenever you see any articles complaining about low royalties paid by streaming services or the unfairness of record contracts, look at that article and see if it anything about income from performances because almost always it doesn't.
Why not? That’s a valid and important metric for storage.
Their fraud is well known amd documented. Here are some of the fines against the leave campaign for breaking the law.

Vote Leave fined for election fraud.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44856992
Leave.EU fined for election fraud.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44080096
Labour Leave fined for undeclared donations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47623595
Vote Leave fined for unsolicited texts using football lottery to gather details.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47623413
Eldon Insurance and Leave.EU fined for data breaches when misusing company email data.
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...
I've been off facebook and twitter for a year. I stopped watching and reading news sites for the past two weeks. It has been absolute bliss. You can bemoan that I'm not "woke" but I can be active in my community and contribute to causes I support without hearing a certain someone's name every damn day.

Hacker News might be next. :-)
The decommodification of housing is the only tenable solution.
The World’s Writing Systems
Wait, I thought the argument was that all these guns in Canada are immaterial because they have no constitutional rights, so when the evil dictatorship inevitably rises in Canada they will first confiscate all the guns and those poor fellows in Canada will have no recourse but to obey and descend into tyranny?

Edit: What I'm saying is, you can't use Canada as working example of citizens with guns, and then say the second amendment is what protects Americans from tyranny. Either the government can be trusted to regulate firearms, or it can't. Which way is it?
Love it :-) Having the colour applied to things right away is really helpful, great idea!
It was never possible to reconcile those differing opinions. This isn’t like trying to agree which pub to drink at or restaurant to eat at - where people agree on a fundamental point of going somewhere but are in the mood for different specifics. This is topic where people have fundamentally contradictory core beliefs.

This kind of tribalism is at the sort of level where people discuss religious beliefs or football clubs (man does that cause so many pointless arguments)
Wouldn't this drive up demand for public transportation and construction in neighboring cities?

I live in Dublin (the one in Ireland) and my commute is about half an hour by tram. Prices are ridiculous in the center, but where I live they are much more reasonable.
The arrest rate for violent crimes for juveniles in SF went from 100 per 10,000 to 10.
Google allows their products to be incompatible with Firefox to promote Chrome. Google is anti-competitive and must be broken up and regulated.
In a similar vein, John Baez was given an opportunity, funded under a grant from DARPA, to use Category Theory for modeling systems.

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/complex-adap...
For all of human history, we've been making music and art. And for almost all of that time, it was done for love of doing, not money.

For a few hundred years, there was the patronage era, where if you were really good you could get a rich person to feed and clothe and house you while you made art. Or you traveled around giving performances for money or food or clothes or shelter.

Then only in the last 100ish years has it been possible to make art for mass consumption (and mass money), but that's only because of artificial scarcity.

Now that the scarcity is gone, we are back to patronage (see Patreon) and making money from the performance of music, by doing live shows and such.

I think people making money making music was an aberration in history, not "the way it should be".
> You would think inflation would perk up this long into an expansion but since most of the gains have gone to the wealthy (who don't spend as much as their income as normal folk) the economy is not as dynamic as we thought it would be

This is exactly what happens when new money in injected at exclusive points. The upper class accumulates ever more financial power, while the lower class is kept fighting over the scraps. An amount that could be a major life changing expense for most of the country is presently a throwaway gadget purchase for someone working for the banksters in NYC or the surveillance industry in SF.

Financially, MMT is analogous to a kid not being stopped for taking money from their parents' wallets to buy candy, so they move on to taking larger sums - whether this is actually a problem entirely depends on how much their parents make. Financial deficits only work as long as they do not undermine faith in the issuer. For the US, this effectively based on energy (historically including Saudi Arabia) and military might. "Withdraw" at a rate faster than "depositors" will tolerate, and faith in greenbacks will collapse.

MMT is especially ironic because it's gaining political support in the name of "going green". But it's actually the same vein of consumerist greenwashing as that "third R" - recycling. Heating up the economy fundamentally causes more crap to be produced ("full employment" !). If you want to conserve earth's natural resources and leave that carbon in the ground, support simply letting natural deflation actually occur.

I will say however, that if MMT can end up justifying an alternative to just dumping most of the consumer-bound printed money into the housing sector, that alone could be a great thing.
You're taking about expectation not to log the password. That's fine.

The parent was taking about expectation about infrastructure that validates this. This is both very uncommon and impossible to do 100% correctly. You can scan logs for a prefix (password=), you can do entropy counting, you can try to decode hex values in text. But if you find a base64 encoded hex string representing "foobar" - how do you even know it's a password?

Short of trying all possible decodings of all possible substrings against your full password database, this is an impossible task. (You can do best-effort things though)
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The Internet of Things: Impact on Public Safety Communications [pdf]
If you haven't seen EDN (Extensible Data Notation), it might be worth a look. It was developed by Rich Hickey as a JSON alternative, for use in Clojure. I've found it to be very useful, and not just in Clojure. For example there is an edn crate in Rust.

* https://github.com/edn-format/edn
* https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/
* https://www.compoundtheory.com/clojure-edn-walkthrough/
Not to interrupt HN's favorite you're-not-the-customer meme, but Amazon takes 8-15% commission from sales. Everyone that buys on Amazon is Amazon's customer making Amazon money.
To anyone who hasn’t been totally brainwashed yet one way or the other, a great piece of writing on MMT: https://www.epsilontheory.com/modern-monetary-theory-or-how-...
Most discussion here is about how gun rights in the US aren't primarily viewed as being about hunting. That being said, there are legitimate reasons to use a semi-automatic weapon with a >10 magazine capacity for hunting. For example, feral hogs and coyotes frequently travel in packs. If a dozen hogs are causing havoc on your land, you might need more than a bolt action, especially once they start running.
Sounds like nobody wants to do sysadmin work. If spinning your email server or web server would be as easy as opening a google or yahoo account then federetion would be a lot more affordable.

But not even professional sysadmins want to admin and maintain servers (at least for personal use).

Why several companies are trying to build self-driving cars but so few are building servers that you spin up and they're secure and work? We need "self-driving computers".
I am building a product on the same. Can you help with your advise?
Tesla is not anywhere near the largest battery maker and their product is made to the exact same specifications as off-the-shelf Panasonic batteries, by Panasonic, in a Panasonic factory with a big Tesla sign on it. But what I'd love to know is how you came to believe any of that stuff you wrote.
You must live in a different universe from me. In my universe we have been successfully addressing those problems for over 60 years. Also, our tools aren't simple, or predictable, or consistent, which is why our universe created this software called "Docker". It helps, but there's no UI for anything (unless you pay a lot of money) so it's still a pain.
I would have included George Orwell as a successful futurist.

For those that are younger: Courtney Love Does the Math (https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/). Hard to believe it's been (almost) 20 years since that was written.

I'm watching a young, extremely talented guy make his bones on YouTube. He's now started touring extensively, and working with other up-and-comers. I'm hoping he can reach the tipping point to become mainstream.
Optical force-induced self-guiding light in human red blood cell suspensions
That might be part of it, but I think based on the abstract they're more trying to say that the amount of stimuli we can perceive in a given moment is limited by physical processes that slow down as we age, e.g. your eye movements (saccades) are slower so the mental images you build up from visual input are less as you age, and with fewer mental images/perceptions in any given moment makes it feel like less is happening and therefore time is moving faster subjectively speaking.

At least that's how I read it.
Chrome tracks you even if you're not logged into your Google account. Another good reason to support and use Firefox is that we don't want to end up with only one browser engine, giving Google complete control over the future of the web and the rest of the internet.
50% has been a standard in print publishing for a hundred years.
The Bitcoin community ironically supports MMT in order to accelerate the decline of traditional financial institutions. I can't believe people take MMT seriously.
I never did it (though I have taken quite a few trains in Europe) but in the 70s or thereabouts spending a summer after graduation or whenever traveling with a "Eurail Pass" (whatever the proper name was) was almost a chiche.
The difference between an election and a referendum of this type is that in four years there'll be another one, so even if everyone realises they were wrong an opportunity will be along in not too long to reverse that decision.
I have a PhD in chemical engineering, but not a PE, since I didn't go the industry route. I wouldn't feel comfortable calling myself an Engineer without it, and that was the attitude expressed by my professors and cohort coming out of undergrad.
> However, with a sampling rate of 44,000 samples per second, there were overtones of sound now missing.

Human hearing only goes up to 20 kHz when you are young, dropping to about 12 kHz at the age of 50. 44 kHz sampling gives a Nyquist frequency of 22 kHz, easily encompassing the full range of human hearing. Any overtones that are missing in the recording are overtones that didn't make it through the human ear in the first place.

>I have long since abandoned arguments about the quality of sound. The analog sound was better. It was fuller and warmer, and it held all the sonic information.

16-bit samples on a CD can represent about 96 dB of dynamic range. The cassette tapes that he is arguing for can only represent 60-70 dB of dynamic range. It certainly doesn't hold "all the sonic information".

I really appreciate the historical view that the author brings. In terms of the technology, though, he sounds like one of the foolish audiophiles buying the $1,500 HDMI cables.
The Model 3 cells are custom 2170 li-ion cells co-developed with Tesla and manufactured by Panasonic at Gigafactory 1.

Tesla Gigafactory 1, which started in 2013, has already grown into the biggest battery factory in the world with an annual production capacity of over 20 GWh. [1]

Actually they have exceeded 20 GWh currently and are pushing towards 35 GWh. [2]

Panasonic is a 25% stakeholder in Gigafactory 1. The fact that you think Tesla merely assembles packs, is because most of what they are doing to hit $100/kWh is trade secret.

Their packs are cheaper, lighter, denser. They will be cobalt free. And that’s driven by Tesla IP not just Panasonic. [3]

As far as margins, the idea that you could ship a 50kWh electric car for $35,000 was pure and utter lunacy 10 years ago.

There literally isn’t enough battery production in the world to produce a million EVs a year, let alone 10 million. You are comparing apples to oranges.

[1] - https://www.google.com/amp/s/electrek.co/2018/09/26/panasoni...

[2] - https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/g...

[3] - https://electrek.co/2018/11/13/tesla-battery-cells-improved/
I think they're different.

"Live within your means" is basically don't overextend yourself to live a life you can't actually afford

"Pay what you owe when you owe it" means that if you said you'd pay somebody, make sure to do so on time. It's entirely possible to be living within your means but still have a bad habit of paying your bills weeks late.
Memo Shows Kickstarter Senior Staffers Are Pushing Back AgainstUnion Efforts
That doesn't necessarily help when logs are sampled. Eg, for high volume services or endpoints, only 1 in X,000 requests might be logged, and you have no theoretical guarantee that you would ever catch any one individual request in your logs.
Lead affects childhood development, and crime happens in adulthood. That lag is exactly what you would expect.
I agree. The job title is literally _engine_er. Unless you oversee the operation of engines (as in locomotives), you are not an engineer.

But seriously, the definition of engineer in regular lexicon is someone who designs, builds, or maintains complex systems. I struggle to think how software does not tick all of those boxes. Sandwiches are a different story.

Perhaps you are confusing engineer with professional engineer? I can see how it might be easy to mix them up if you are not paying attention, but professional engineer carries a different meaning. Most software engineers are not professional engineers but are unquestionably engineers.
The new EU copyright directive. Specifically article 11 (link tax) and article 13 (upload filter).

This site explains it well i think: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/
What are iOS engineering interviews like at Apple?
Turn down the volume before playing the samples. Especially when wearing headphones.
People claiming that Tesla logistics is a "shit show" does not mean that Tesla failed to build a valuable logistics system. Check your logic there. Your saying something doesn't make it true. It would be far more plausible to claim that the repeated theft of Tesla logistics IP implies Tesla has valuable logistics IP.
So what I'm hearing is that opportunism will always exist regardless of structure
The council taxes round here work along the following lines:

£50k house -- £750 (1.5%)
£150k house -- £1500 (1%)
£650k house -- £3000 (0.5%)
£3000k house -- £3000 (0.1%)
What I do for this is get Google Translate to translate the article, then opt to view the original. The experience is usually better than it is for this article, but it's still readable.
Which is, FWIW, sometimes a useful feature. Virtuous activities like exercise, long hikes, etc can drag on forever at first, and one of the things that allows me to keep going is the promise that it will begin to go by more smoothly. It's only once you get into the "groove" where it becomes pleasant!
Well put, your description of the history of paid art puts things in a different perspective.
Statistics has become politicized through questionable interpretations of polling and crime data specifically with respect to various demographic markers. Increasing skepticism towards the field is a product of ideological division. No science is immune from its scientists and most humans are irrational creatures with emotive drivers.
Not quite, this is not an actual functioning aircraft. On the other hand many kids have written programs that where actually useful. Recorded music people actually paid for etc etc.
Amtrak is a corporation owned by the U.S. government. That structure is typical for rail operators. What's different is that Amtrak is operated like part of the government, while European rail operators are actually operated like private companies. For example, the CEO of Deutsche Bahn is paid like a private CEO, while the CEO of Amtrak is paid like a senior government officer (and right now, actually, not being paid at all).
What do you need help on? It's just a few lines of calling the Google TTS API. I can find it when I get off from work.
I think that days seem to be shorter due to neuroplasticity and predictability of events that comes from our experience. We can predict new stuff and same old stuff does not excite us. Due to these reasons the amount of new strong memories developed per some time unit reduces as you get older. I think that the sensed speed of time passage is proportionate to the density of new memories we make. We got used to some 'average' of how much we usually experience per day and with that we have our expectations. Now that if I expect 10 new things to happen to me in 1 day and actually 20 of them happens I feel that twice as much of time had passed.

Is there a way to read this article for free somewhere?