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As someone who grew up in Canada and actually paid attention, this common line is mostly BS.

If you have an emergency, you essentially have no wait time for an MRI. If you have a condition that can wait, you go into the line and potentially wait for a long time. When the wait times become too long, it becomes a scandal and then improves. Every scandal then gets reported in the USA as stories about how horrible Canadian healthcare is.
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I have good pronunciation but a very deep voice and I am completely unable to make Google Assistant understand what I am saying. I think it just doesn't work for anyone who's outside of some idea of an "average" voice.
Also see Prof Tim Davis recent interview with the ACM: https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2019/tim-davis
Yeah, it's neat. The long-term goal is to move Firefox to use DirectComposition as much as it can, by the way, by integrating it into WebRender. I've done some work on this with the "planeshift" library. I wouldn't be surprised if Chromium eventually does the same (as it already uses Core Animation on macOS).
I doubt they would release their “real” operational procedures to the press. Surely they attached the USB to some sort of sandboxed environment? On the other hand why would they be carrying around such equipment?
I'm surprised the author's takeaway from the Joyce quote was disillusionment. He's actually quite close to the secret sauce. I don't think writing more code and ending up with less code are at odds. In fact, I think you need to write more code to end up with less. You write more code in order to understand the problem space. Once you understand the problem space, you can then refactor everything that you wrote into more concise code that more accurately reflects the problem.

James Joyce wrote Ulysses at the rate of a hundred words per day if you only consider the finished product. However, I doubt every word that Joyce wrote ended up in Ulysses. I'm sure he did quite a lot of cutting and rewriting.

The takeaway from me from the two quoted stories was that quality and quantity are not at odds, but instead are the yin and yang of productivity. They reinforce each other. The more things you produce, the more patterns you are exposed to which in turn leads to higher quality since experience leads to efficiency, giving you more time to get things right.
Doesn't the US have out-of-hours pharmacies, or out of hours doctors, or urgent but not emergency treatment centres?
"Are we the baddies"? heh ;)
We tried to have a peak oil in the 70's and 80's and we got improved catalytic cracking processes (google zeolites), and I believe we also got sideways drilling and (someone with a better memory, help?) ground penetrating radar during that era.

So we located more oil, we could get more of it out of the ground, and more of it made it to your gas tank.

Since then people have made the zeolites many times larger in diameter. I've no idea why that improves efficiency but that's the claim.

However through all of this the amount of energy to refine one gallon of petroleum has gone up and up. That's one of the complaints about tar sands. For some of those the yield is a 10:1 ratio (one gallon to produce 10), whereas we used to be many multiples of that ratio.
Hmm, so https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips ?
I don't know much about this case but depending on the level of concern, even just plugging the device into a safe, isolated machine and performing an image may be insufficient.

You could imagine a USB device that presented as a harmless file store unless certain conditions were detected, in which case the device could re-present as a keyboard (providing pre-programmed keystrokes) or potentially a bluetooth or wireless network receiver that could log or analyze traffic to a hidden partition.

I think the question of how to safely analyze suspect USB devices, at the level of potential nation-state actors, needs a lot more consideration and probably some custom tooling.
That was my point: I’ve known a fair number of people from other countries and I’ve never heard any reaction other than stunned disbelief when they experienced the American private insurance system — up to and including giving up jobs here just to avoid the stress of not knowing whether you really will get treated or not.
Think a linear wall of isolation, so the capacitor can still dissipate heat to the air.

A jacket around the capacitor would be a bad idea, especially since capacitors can generate heat internally, and heat is what we don't want!
It's sad to see Gimp giving in to the CMYK myth. I suppose it was simply too difficult to educate all the users who were somehow convinced of the need to work in CMYK space.

Some of us remember when Microsoft Word document formatting would get all messed up if you moved the document to a computer with a different model of printer. The trouble was that documents were expressed in terms of specific printing hardware. Using CMYK has a very similar problem. You can't get a generic CMYK that just magically works directly on every printer, and even if such a thing existed you still wouldn't be able to see it on your screen. The black is also a problem; a 4-color space is overspecified. You'd really need CMY.

The actual CMYK needed is only known to the printer driver or even just internal to the printer. You'll need to convert. Since you are converting anyway, there is no need to start from a color space as awkward as CMYK.

There are really just two things of use beyond RGB, gamut mapping/alerting and spot colors.

Gamut mapping distorts your color space to fit the output device. Alerting is an alternative, for example by making out-of-gamut colors flash on the screen to tell you that they are not going to be printed correctly. Both of these are deeply problematic, because they require knowledge of the specific printer that will be used. That includes the paper color, the ink currently installed, the hardware model, the driver, and maybe even the intended viewing light.

Spot colors are for crazy kinds of ink that need to be handled separately. The ink might have sparkles, UV fluorescence, magnetism, and so on. These kinds of inks don't normally get treated as part of the colorspace. They shouldn't be affected by operations like adjusting saturation. The way these inks are displayed on the screen may be quite unrelated to how they actually look. You should be able to configure an on-screen appearance with any desired color or filter effect or even with flashing.
Every GTA release is aimed to chock more than the previous one. I watched store clerks with a long line of kids wanting to buy GTA V, they asked for phone number to parents to ask for permission to sell and informed what type of game it was. Great hype for the game :)
But then the tax shelter states wouldn't be able to mooch off of federal programs.
It seems you're right. I know I was close to the average for my region, but that's a high cost-of-living city with a much higher median income than 35k. I may have also been conflating household and individual income.

Lessons: 1) I have no concept of the median experience in my country, 2) a single number can't answer the question "does this country have high taxes".
Let me guess - your deductible is 6000$?
> If all the money from the passively managed funds just stays put, will the stocks basically not take much of a hit?

The stocks will still take a hit, as we saw in the case of 2008 almost everyone loses money in a market-wide drop. Many active traders went bankrupt as well, the S&P500 lost 50% of its value but didn't go to 0.

> Of course if it gets bad enough for companies to go broke, that could go wrong for the passively managed crowd as they'll stay in there till the end, most likely.

It depends on how quickly the drop happens. S&P500 index funds will sell stocks as they exit the top 500 (this is a simplification of the actual mechanism), so if the drop is gradual then it's not so bad. If the drop is sudden then there is a bigger problem, but the sudden drop is a problem for everyone, active or passive unless you're doing HFT.
It's probably more complex than that, with more geopolitical factors involved. Right now, for example, Russia's political economy is limited by access to year-round deep water ports. China's relationship to Tibet is shaped by the fact that Tibet is basically China's watershed. The bread basket of the United States is just a bunch of fertile soil, blown off the Rockies, that happens to have landed underneath fantastic weather for corn, or wheat, or what have you. When any of those change, we're all going to become much more intimately familiar with the phrase "balance of power."

It's not going to be a case of moving near fresh water. It's going to be a case of getting tolerable living conditions subject to the political apparatuses and distribution networks that develop in response to the power structures that develop as the planet changes underneath the map and the map changes underneath our feet.

Good luck!
I think most of us can agree that sometimes Google services are extremely practical. I just don't think that the practicality is an argument towards the morality of their business.

I wouldn't make this a morality based argument if we just had transparency. If they were perfectly transparent, their business model would be fine (in terms of morality at least). But I believe, personally, that they have the responsibility to better inform consumers exactly what data they're collecting and exactly where it's going.

If you are a well educated consumer who decides that they are comfortable with the level of surveillance in exchange for that product, than by all means. I just wish it wasn't impossible to be a well educated consumer in this field.
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There's going to be a lot of buts I get it. I want someone that can figure this out and move it forward.
"It's basically like this: If you're gonna be poor, go to Germany. Everyone else will pay for you. If you're going to earn well, leave Germany, otherwise you're going to be paying for everyone else."

You should add this to your algorithm for location choice: If you get a serious health problem and want to become poor, come to the US.
>>Socialized insurance rates in Germany are 15% of income. Unless your family doesn't earn any money, they have been paying far more than 50 Euros.

Comments like this always miss the larger point, which is that healthcare overall is cheaper in socialized systems because the government as a large entity negotiates on behalf of citizens and puts strong downward pressure on prices.
It’s truly remarkable that a company that was once nearly broken up by the government over its browser bundling, is now barely implementing a browser.
An ER visit is not the same as a simple doctor's visit. If ER visits are necessary (questionable in this case), they are covered by insurance - by law. Your deductible still applies.
The point is that it's not as simple as "games are good" or "games are bad". Not only is each game different, each person is different, and each combination of the two affects a person on many different dimensions, some good and some bad, and the definition of what it truly means to move in a positive direction of personal growth is multifaceted and nuanced, such that blanket statements can't really be made. An individual (or an individual child's parent) needs to look at their particular case and consider all dimensions of effect, together.
> Keto is all well and good... until you get your lipid panel checked.

Yeah, I did. Every value was significantly improved across the board after losing the amount of weight I managed to lose on a Ketogenic diet.
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If you go by the “original intent” standard, the amendment was clearly written to mean face-to-face contact since no other type existed.
It's a severe discredit to the major operating system vendors that plugging in a USB stick can still compromise a system.

If a USB device identifies itself as a keyboard, the system shouldn't accept its keystrokes until that keyboard has typed the user's login password (EDIT: or the user explicitly authorizes the device using a different keyboard). If it identifies itself as a storage device, the filesystem driver should be hardened. If it identifies itself as an obscure 90s printer with a buggy driver written in C, it should prompt the user to confirm the device type before it loads the driver.

It's 2019. Why the f* haven't Windows, MacOS and Linux all implemented these basic precautions?
That's the opening stanza from Leaves of Grass, the Ur-text of American poetry. The opening stanza doesn't convey Whitman's break with convention fully, but it stands in for the rest, which does. And certainly these lines -- self-celebratory, all-encompassing, without conventional rhyme or meter -- convey an expression of independence!
"If you include things that aren't taxes, people are taxed a lot more"
>For this thesis, you need to show that movable type in specific, rather than printing in general, was necessary and sufficient for the scientific revolution.

I would say that movable type was necessary but not sufficient. Are you saying that if all the other conditions had been in place, we could have had the scientific revolution (which China most definitely did not have) with block printing?
The future is almost certainly going to be indoor farming, climate controlled systems and mass produced lab grown foods (eg: algae, insects), so access to fresh water is going to be a bigger bottleneck than say, nice weather or soil types. Soil can be trucked in from arid or inhospitable regions. Food can be grown in vats.

Tolerable power structures are directly related to the resources on hand and pressure on those resources.

Fresh water is what future wars will be fought over. Perhaps coastal cities will up their desalination game, who knows.
Williams said the best way to forensically examine a suspect USB drive is by plugging the device into an isolated Linux-based computer that doesn’t automatically mount the drive to the operating system.

“We would then create a forensic image of the USB and extract any malware for analysis in the lab,” he said. “While there is still a very small risk that the malware targets Linux, that’s not the normal case.”

That's an ok start, but you not only want to prevent it from auto-mounting the filesystem, you want it to not even auto-configure any USB HIDs presented to the OS. And even then that may not be enough if there are flaws deep in the usb stack that are being exploited. Ideally you'd have an analyzer in the middle that records everything and allows analysis later, think Wireshark or Fiddler.
The reason for this is that if one state has better social programs then another and higher taxes the poorest are going to move there, and the high earners are going to move away.
Somebody's gouging us. Who? Everybody cries poor and points the finger at everybody else. Nobody knows where the money is actually going.
Probably some over eager and hot headed officer wanting to prove they're hot shit without understanding the dangers.
ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, actually is tremendously effective for refractory depression. I’ve known several individuals for whom it made all the difference.

It comes with massive memory loss; this leads me to think that the antidepressant effects of NMDA antagonists, cannabis, and ECT are all mediated by memory modulation.

To the point, it would be amazing if these benefits could be realized without nuking the brain.
No one, ESPECIALLY the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick.
> It's going to be a case of getting tolerable living conditions subject to the political apparatuses and distribution networks that develop in response to the power structures that develop as the planet changes underneath the map and the map changes underneath our feet.

I've never seen anyone describe Mad Max so aptly!
12 out of all soldiers may not be a lot, but 12 out of 38 certainly is.
Most prisons do visits through glass now, so no contraband that way either.
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Yeah, and cost of health insurance in Austria is just 7,65% of your income, and it covers your children. When I've worked in the US, I've paid just as much for health insurance and still had high out-of-pockets and deductibles on top of that.
I really don't understand the sentiment of this comment. Can you go into more detail on what that world would look like?

fb and the like have options to pull down your data, generally. It's not thaaaaaaaaaaaaaat much work to parse it. Certainly much less work than, say, writing a RDBMS....
You’re free to host stuff on a desktop PC if you want. Some people do. However the devil is in the details. For example you was a redundant power supply, then you’ll need a server case with dual PSUs, two power rails backed by two UPSs. You’d probably then want some kind of out-of-band management console which means you then need a VPN server too. And of course that would need the same redundancy with power too. And all that is fine until you realise your router is a central point of failure, so you’d then want two switches and two hardware firewalls. But what if the hardware failes on your PC? You’d then want a battery-backed RAID controller and a device for making off site backups (since you’re not using the cloud, that probably means a tape drive or DVD writer- depending on the volume of data you’re storing). However you’re still reliant on one PC so you’d need to double that up too. And since you now have 4 network devices, 4 servers and 2 UPSs, you’d probably need to store than investment somewhere secure - like a dedicated room with a camera and keypad lock on the door. Best install some air conditioning too while you’re at it. And you’ve still yet to address the looming problem of the builders next door accidentally digging through your leased line (this has literally happened to me before).

Costs can quickly spiral when you’re self-hosting internet services for paying customers who expect their internet services available 24/7. Which is why the cloud is so attractive - it allows you to build your product without paying the upfront cost of self hosting.

That all said, I do honestly get the appeal of self hosting. It’s fun owning your own hardware. That is until it fails....
I've learnt it has a DAC after watching Strange Parts take 1 apart and put the components inside the iPhone 7 so he could have the 3.5 jack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA
While that's a great reason in the US, internationally unless it's under the CC0 or similar the Apache License is actually preferable to Public Domain (assigning things to public domain is not trivial or even possible everywhere)
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I emailed this to the mods for headline and/or link fixing.
Fortnite used to have loot boxes and they've changed how they worked to make them less like gambling.
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Yeah, it's relatively low-probability but still essential. Getting a broken bone fixed seems like more of a basic human right than a "premium service".
Is it accurate to call those numbers contrast ratios when you seem to be ignoring gamma correction?
I can't think of many things more fun than coming up with some clever USB descriptor hacks to allow an innocuous drive full of pictures of grandchildren to carefully switch into an HID device when it thinks the coast is clear. I have to imagine there's a lot of little tricks you could implement which would be difficult to trigger in a sandbox and might require dumping the EEPROM (if that's possible).
The weirdest capacitor failure i've experienced was after a single speck of dust ended up inside the control panel of one the CNC machines at work. It landed directly on a capacitor that was part of a circuit for the backup emergency stop system. The system refused to power on because it believed the emergency stop was tripped.

We ended up bypassing the circuit itself directly in electrical cabinet until we got an electrician in who found the problem capacitor. Luckily the actual e-stop still worked, this was a backup e-stop, I guess, I'm still not entirely sure. We ended up having to replace the entire CNC controller for the machine.
A discussion of the NYT article is over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19571054.
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Roblox is hot garbage and it's stuffed full of really weird IAPs.
For people unfamiliar with this strategy, check out a commercialized version, the USB Rubber Ducky.

https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe
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Well, I only trust a news agency that would also report about the people in captivity there ( a couple of million Muslims).

Or about the digital credit system.

Or about claiming international waters.

Or about the countries that won't be able to pay back the investments of the one-road. Where locals don't get any benefits from.

Or that the worldwide loans to other countries make it clear that china is not a developing country anymore.

What's the chance of that?

( Sorry, but I'm more worried since I know China is actively sponsoring pro-China news agencies close to home ( Londen)). The sooner it fails, the better.

And no, it's not personal against you. It is however personal against me ( manipulating news close to home).

And Xi is pretty smart and hard-working. He is going for the long/slow haul, it's not what he's doing now, it's what he can do tomorrow.

What I see now, is what I thought it would be. He is waiting till Trump is gone, because he will be in charge longer.
> So what are my options?

Scroll down a bit further on that page until you hit the "Foods to Eat" section and remove from it anything you refuse to eat.
We put Some above, instead of the clickbait These.
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Tesla Autopilot will be able to avoid potholes on the road, says Elon Musk
A basic non-complication natural child birth will cost at least a couple of thousand out of pocket for most insurances.
> all which lead to greater value creation and self fulfillment superior to defeating some imaginary creature

That is 100% subjective.

For instance, I can easily argue that breaking kernels and writing drivers for obscure hardware does not add any real value for society as a whole.

However, playing and socializing with people does create value for society, specially in this day and age where people is evermore alone, if only in reduction of antidepressants ;)
I did a subscription service with Stripe too several years ago. I think I just ended up failing those webhooks, and then letting Stripe automatically retry in a bit.
Then there's education costs in the US, say you want your kid to go to CalArts, that's $50,000 a year just for tuition, so your kid gets out of school $500k in debt with a degree in performance art and a $3,000 a month student loan payment for life.
I agree about constant war and conflict, but I would add in very different views of things like truth, nature and human psychology from Greek philosophy.