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> both have rotating 5% categories (subject to a $1,500 per quarter maximum spend) without annual fees

So, $75 of rewards per quarter? That’s not even worth the trouble it would take to apply.
Boeing fails to take into account that the IQ of a typical third world pilot is lower than IQ of a Chinese or a white American pilot. Thus the systems and training that in the past would have been OK for a US airline need to be dumbed down for an African or an South East Asian pilot. This is a new reality given the Boeing's market shift.
But the YT videos of people opening proper kinder eggs are all the rage amongst toddlers in the US, so at least many parents will.
That might be a fallback option but modern terminals do not need a card number.
I was pretty happy with a mortgage payment that didn't go up, while rent tripled around me.
I've been meaning to revisit Kotlin's web framework offerings. I've used it in small doses for Android and AWS Lambda functions and, IMO, it seems to potentially be the best of both worlds; strict where it needs to be and flexible where it doesn't. I'm currently supporting a few Python Lambda functions at work and they feel very slapdash in comparison.
Seriously, do people like writing boilerplate or something? Whenever I write a non Rails backend, I keep on thinking about how easy, how fast this would be done in Rails. Like I'm writing a backend right now in Rust, and while Rust is an excellent language with lots of ergonomic features, it's not a tenth as fast or fun as Rails. It's quite depressing to be writing a bunch of Rust code only to remember that this would be done in a few minutes with Rails (albeit with half the safety).

For instance, let's take writing a simple RESTful API. With Rust and Rocket, I need to build up the file structure, start writing controllers to fetch the different resources using diesel, figure out connection pools and how they link with Rocket fairings, then find I need rocket_contrib in order to automatically serialize to Json, then write out all the same routes (/ GET/POST, /:id GET/DELETE/UPDATE, etc.). Meanwhile in Rails I type `rails generate scaffold article title:string content:string`. Boom. Done.

Several times I've found myself thinking about ways of making my development experience better in Rust. Maybe I could write some macros that fix my problems. But then I'd just be reinventing Rails' metaprogramming. Ah well. I guess sometimes we need to reinvent the wheel.
Rails was somewhat unique at its birth with its opinionated-ness. Outside of that world, in "respectable" programming environments with smart people who were good at algorithms and O(n) notation and all that (which was not me) it was rare that I encountered the kind of insanity that I seem to run into daily with PHP and later JS.
Apple is acting as though their rewards is the most generous reward system ever, period

Is it? I don't think Apple is pretending to be the most generous. I think it's trying to be the easiest/most friendly.

There are a lot of ways the Apple card is better than those you list, especially when it comes to fees. But your post is too long for me to bother going through it.

I picked your Uber example randomly.

4% back is great on dining. But it's only on dining. 3% on travel matches Apple. The rest of Uber is 2%, except for some exclusions, which is less than Apple.

Buy music and videos online? With Uber you're capped at $50 cashback per year. And you only get that after you spend $5,000 within 12 months. And then the clock resets.

Too many games. Apple's whole point is to simplify.

Personally, I don't even like the whole cashback thing, but I accept that other people do. I'd rather they just lower my interest rate instead.

Uber's rate is 17.24-25.99%. We'll have to see what Apple comes up with.
Its a new stock so it might be expensive to borrow.
>>Most of the Asian religions are blends of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and a few local elements.

Hinduism. I assume your miss was inadvertent.
In many cases your surname/family name can give away your caste. There have been social movements in the country where groups have shunned the practice of using their family names that are used to identify caste.
When will people understand that buying something now without the money is not freedom?

I guess someone's never had his car break down far from home.
So, is your advice to people who can manage credit cards to forgo them?

Perhaps the world would be better off without easy money at usurious interest, but given that we're in the world we're in, the rational thing seems to be to take advantage of the rewards programs available, because I'm paying for them either way.
Thanks for the correction! And congrats for the great work
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A bit off topic, and I may be (most likely) wrong... but isn't Apple Card a good way for apple to dodge tax in some countries? Like if I'm in Australia and I pay using Apple Card then pay my apple bill, apple gets 100% of the bill paid with no sale so the money is in the country of their choosing paying the minimal amount of tax.
Have you tried elixir?
I maintain a legacy Grails app, it's memory hungry and brittle. A bug one place brings down all parts of it.

I hate it but I'm no Java expert.
It's no great surprise that the words don't translate. But what I'm asking is it's possible to infer a word-to-word mapping along the lines of

English French
------- ------
mile = embouchure
crazy = adjuger
shade = saladier

or if the mapping is weird enough that even that doesn't work.
It could be previously.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/prescription...
Wouldn't chickens be better, then?
They still don't want their competitors to know how well they're doing or their suppliers, who might increase their prices if they know the company is doing well.
What about the toilet ... can feces/specimen data be used to catch health issues early on? I know urine can.

The Smart toilet idea has been parodied a lot though and none exist as far as I know. Maybe it’s just not feasible?
A proctored exam can only really measure a few types of skills, and don't work very well for demonstrating skills learned in many classes.

Take, for example, a class that is about learning to write effectively, which is clearly a valuable skill that adults need no matter what they do in life.

Part of that skill is being able to construct, from scratch, an effective piece of writing in a length of time that is longer than a proctored exam session. You can only measure that skill by having them do that, and if they turn in work they have written prior, you aren't learning anything about their ability to write something effectively on demand.

Research classes are similar; you can't demonstrate that you know how to do research well in a 3 hour exam. Programming classes, too; you can't measure the ability to create a large project in a 3 hour exam.
There's also always a package to handle that issue. [0][1][2]

As well as other options. [3]

I like to imagine that the "no generics, no way" crowd would never use the stairway in their building if the elevator broke down.

[0] https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen
[1] https://github.com/cheekybits/genny
[2] https://github.com/cosmos72/gomacro
[3] https://appliedgo.net/generics/
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It counts as a medical device, which means it has to go through extensive certification. Different countries have different procedures.
Nothing to do with the service guarentee^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "commitment".

It was a redesign from the ground up of the pizza. New dough & sauce formula. A butter/garlic/seasoning added to the crust.

Also Quantity of cheese on a plain pie increased by 50%. A 14" pie went from 7oz to 10oz. Owners lost their shit over this mandated cost increase. Everyone shut up about 4 months later once sales were up 50%.

And a very, very nice advertising campaign. The CEO got on TV and said "Our pizza sucks. Sorry. We know, we listened, we fixed it. Buy three of them for $15 and if you don't like it, we will refund your money no questions asked".

The new customer satisfaction rules were another source of contention. The 100% satisfaction guarentee made franchisees, especially those in.... "urban" environments very nervous. They thought there would be a line out the door of people scamming. My store in such a "low-income, high-population density" environment.

Corporate came down hard on them. Owners, even huge multi-store franchises with 10s of millions in sales were told where the door was if they didn't like it. I was very proud of the central office. They took what could be an excuse to make two rules - One for Flatbush Avenue and another for Newport Beach - and applied it across the company. It really endeared higher management to the workers, many of which lived in just such areas.

I was never worried, and it turned out to not be a problem. The number people who asked for a refund for questionable reasons were very very small and an easily absorbed cost of business.
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Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all active ads
Iain McGilchrist discusses at length the two-sided brain in his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World [1]

Fun fact: He wrote the book over a period of 20 years.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0300245920
The biggest problem with Kotlin is also it's biggest strength: excellent interop with Java. This means that you can use all of the Java libraries...but that also makes writing new libraries in idiomatic Kotlin unnecessary, so you're going to get less of them, and have to use a lot of crummy old Java APIs.
They might be able to fix it by making the only valid user agent “not-curl-honest”.
Agreed, this is actually on my todos, just haven't executed yet.
boss said so
Well there are many ways, most of the Hindu surnames are representatives of their castes- for example Sharma means High Caste Pundit, (Agarwal, Agerwal, Agrawala, Agarwala, Aggarwal, Agrawal)-> all mean a Bania(Trader) Caste etc etc.

You can check out a wikipedia page which can be used to map it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_family_names

Apart from that, you are required to submit your caste certificate in school in for Board Registration, which is loosely handled, hence process is not anonymous, so now your schoolmates know your caste.
In my College, there were many ways to know the caste of the person- like Fee structure is different for SC/STs and Others.
The whole list used to be published publicly, and everyone had to refer to it during semester registration. Now everyone who notices your name knows you an SC/ST.
There was huge resentment in the General/OBC community regarding the Fee Structure, as they just see that his mate is paying almost 1/10th the fee. I usually didn't reveal my caste to anyone, and my surname is a bit ambiguous so sometime my peers/friends used to rant about it as well.

Now after college, I have lived in around 3 major cities- Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. Usually no-one asks about your caste here, but it does happens sometime.
People belonging to Higher caste have no issues in revealing it, though people in my/lower communities usually hesitate and do not want to reveal it.

Moving to other city and rebranding yourself as an higher caste might work, but if caught, there can be social severe repercussion. Caste hierarchy is actually flexible and dependent on the social position of the caste in that specific area. So you would also find cases, where X is a higher than Y in some places.

Arranged Marriages in India are most mostly caste based as well.

People also associate caste with IQs as people of lower caste using reservation didn't had to score much in their entrance exams, hence usually I avoid the topic all together if possible. There are other traits as well that people assume.

Now not everyone would discriminate against you, its almost like not every white guy is racist in US, but you would very much like to just avoid interacting with the ones who are.
But I would still say an inherent Bias is still present.

In short, answer to your question- yes rebranding yourself is possible, though its not very simple. There is even a term for it in sociology named Sanskritisation. There is also Brahminisation, which is when a group adopts social traits of Brahmins who sit at the top of the caste system.
> Shelters and low income housing up and down the peninsula don't allow drug use, don't allow people with criminal records, and some don't allow men.

So they're explicitly designed to not shelter the majority of people needing them, that seems counter-productive. Is smoking crack in the shelter somehow worse than doing it in the street? Are they supposed to work out their addiction problem while they've got no where to live and no job?

If you're going to run shelters like that then they're just a feel good measure to make people think there's help available and nothing more.
Good to know your opinion of the scientific method depends on the political implications of its conclusions.
Russia's remaining arms customers are mostly poor and desperate. They can't afford 5G aircraft. India used to be a major customer but now that they have more money they're shifting purchases to better alternatives.
How to Talk to Your American Audience: Selling Your Business in U.S. vs. Germany
30K pounds of medical services in the UK would cost you a lot more in the US, so it's hard to compare the two just by comparing those limits.
Folks who are downvoting, may I ask why? Seems like a very non-controversial thing to suggest, frankly, especially given who will be ordering the spying this time.
I am not making any reference to Citizens United. This started in the US in 1981 and there was FDA guidance issued in '85. "The FDA said in 1985 that drug makers could air ads, but they also had to follow rigid rules for disclosing side effects and other information." [1]

1: https://www.statnews.com/2015/12/11/untold-story-tvs-first-p...
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Ah, I see your point. I definitely was that beginner that was originally compelled by the ease of Rails. I would watch RailsCasts for fun and be amazed at how much you could do with so little. I thought it was the ultimate developer experience back then.

These days I prefer building something up from microframeworks and I like to take the opposite side of the trade-offs you mention in your comment. There are a lot of aspects of Rails I ended up really disliking over time.

But at the same time, I still find myself thinking back to some of the pleasantries that Rails gives you and wishing I had them in my bespoke applications. Even just things like being able to enumerate your routes from the CLI or seeing your SQL queries and query response time in the terminal during development. If it's something you have to implement yourself, you just tend to not do it at all. And there's a lot a framework can do for you with some opinionatedness.

I think the classic example of this realization is when you deep dive on microframeworks, accumulate them in production, and encounter things like performance issues but realize you don't even have the tools to debug them because you didn't build them.
Well that’s just it the UX of using a toilet would remain the same and the smart toilet wpuld collect the sample(as a toilet does now)/analyze it and send the data if it detects irregularities to your doctor. He/she then analyzes it and schedules a follow up appointment if needed.
It reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/AndrewNadeau0/status/848023384638226432
Whereas here in Australia you'd be hard pressed to find a place where you can use magstrip. It's tap to pay by default.
"Worse Is Better", but describing it from the other side.
Note 7 had bad luck with two defective battery welding lines. Macbook keyboard problems are a result of bad design and not of manufacturing defect.
I only say that because it seems like low-hanging fruit. If I have a class with a random @ivar that's added inside a random method, there's nothing up-front to check against. An ActiveRecord subclass at least has a database schema to validate against.
Thanks for the detailed reply, that helps a lot :)
In the USA, pay at the pump transactions for fuel are still 100% mag strip as far as I've seen. The POS terminal inside can typically do chip transactions, but not the pumps.
> This is nonsense. There's no definition or checklist that defines what a complete type system is

The Go programming language and the compiler have too many soundness holes, therefore I call the type system incomplete. When you can pass in a null literal in place of an object and the compiler doesn't stop you, it goes against any common sense. Not to mention the pervasive use of reflection (interface{}) due to lack of generics.

Allowing null pointers to exist in a new programming language is a decision to ignore decades of progress in pl theory and type system research. It makes sense for google knowing the motivation behind Go, but telling people to avoid Rust unless they need polymorphism or performance is disingenuous at best.

> We are still not at a place yet where the from first principles, type driven approach is going to always be the right choice over the hack out code approach.

Why not?
PoC||GTFO 19 [pdf]
Better yet, you could use Hasura or something like it to generate a real-time-capable GraphQL API, again with authentication support.
Taipei Metro to give 10Bth traveler year of free rides, laptop
Haha, no, it was Larry, his predecessor at a community meeting addressing the homeless issues in downtown San Jose. He wasn't admitting to doing it, but bemoaning that San Jose has to deal with with homeless folks from up and down the peninsula.

It may be illegal within CA, but apparently it happens. I happen to believe him.
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I have had a couple instances of ventricular fibrillation. I have an implant which brings me back to life when that happens; I would be dead without it. However, I do go unconscious for a few seconds until I get shocked back to life.

Although my case is infrequent enough that it is not thought of as a risk by the medical community, for peace of mind what I would really like to have is a link between a watch of some sort and a car capable of self driving. Should I be driving when I go unconscious, all the car would need to do is automatically kick in autopilot mode while gradually slowing down, until a heart rhythm is detected again.

The risk is small, if you consider the percentage of time I'm behind the wheel, but it would be good for peace of mind. It would also be helpful for others who do not yet know they have a heart condition, or those who are having a stroke or epileptic attack while at the wheel. There are others with worse conditions than mine who are basically advised not to drive, so it would help them as well.

If falling asleep can be detected by any biological signals, that would also be a useful autopilot trigger while waking the driver up, for the general population.

Currently most cars require manually activating the autopilot mode; what I'm proposing is a vital sign monitor to automatically begin self-driving if the human is incapacitated.

If the human doesn't wake up within a half a minute or so, the car could also self-drive itself to a hospital. I think we're far enough with self-driving tech that that saved life would far outweigh the risks of the self-driving system having any issues en route.
That makes me feel a lot better. Thank you.
Campbell does not advocate strict prohibition of animal protein. He observes, merely, that it’s probably easier to avoid it altogether than to reduce the intake to safe levels.

The argument is as follows, albeit simplified: When you eat an animal-based diet you are likely to eat a lot more protein than you should, say 20-40% of calories. Recommenced is 10% which is nowadays very close to what authorities generally recommend regardless of source. Campbell argues that it is very challenging to achieve that 10% on a traditional western animal based diet, therefore suggests avoiding animal based protein. He does not say that an occasional meal with meat is harmful.

A varied Whole Foods plant based diet just happens to average out at around 10% protein of calories.
Keeping the user experience the same — I suspect — will be excessively difficult
Still bad advice when you examine the tradeoffs. 1 ecg per year, with a yearly recurring cost, vs a cheaper watch that lets you take 20 ecg’s a day if you want to for the rest of the watch’s lifespan.

Remember it’s possible to not be in constant afib. That’s where the watch really shines.
The headline is click-baity and tailored to create outrage.

If you don't live here, you probably don't know that the Embarcadero area is, as the article says, right by the bay bridge. Heavily tourist-y area. The "wealthy people" of San Francisco actually live a mile or so away, in Russian Hill, Pacific Heights, Lake District (by Bakers Beach) etc. Embarcadero is also right by the FiDi / downtown area where Salesforce, Affirm, BlackRock, Lending Club and several other startups and major Corps have offices. So it's also a safety concern for the workers in downtown as the homeless population in SF is generally more aggressive than in the rest of the country.

A lot of homeless people in San Francisco also are drug users. It's not common to walk in downtown and step on a used needle. So building the housing in the downtown, touristy area is only going to deter people from coming to San Francisco, and deter companies from holding their conventions[1]. There's already 1 such example of a major medical convention cancelled from Moscone cos they were concerned with safety of their attendees due to homeless person crimes. That area has a lot of homeless people around there, many of who are quite aggressive, mentally ill etc.

This is not a case of NIMBY. It's far more complex than that.

I'm just calling it as I see it.

[1] Major medical group cancels San Francisco convention due to safety concerns => https://sf.curbed.com/2018/7/3/17531240/convention-moscone-c...
It's still an extraordinarily bad mis-pricing even when you account for the growth.

Lyft is being given a ~40% valuation premium over Expedia, with 20% of the sales and none of the profit (Expedia generated $842m in operating income last year).

What's the growth assumption on Lyft to justify the extreme risk imbalance in that equation? That they're going to do $15-$20 billion in sales within six to eight years? And that even if they manage to accomplish that somehow (while surviving Uber), they might only be worth then what they already are now as their growth inevitably slows considerably (removing the huge growth premium, contracting their sales etc multiple). It seems likely to end in disaster given the wild outcome required to justify the present pricing.