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The only way that investments in domestic rentals targetting the touristm market can compete with large-scale industrial offers provided by hotels is if the lodging market has been stifled by regulation. Housing in Barcelona is far from cheap and buying an apartment to rent out as a pseudo hotel room is only a remotely viable investment if supply is kept artificially low by rejecting any proposal to build sorely needed hotels.

This sad political state of affairs only serves the interests of incumbent hotel operators and real estate speculators by ensuring that their past investments remain exceptionally proffitable and no competitor can enter the market to pick up the slack. Radical anti-tourism anarchist groups play the role of useful idiots to help preserve this state of affairs, but the real source of the problem is quite obvious, and so is the solution: allow the construction of new high-capacity hotels and provide incentives to maximize hotel occupancy, such as taxing vacant hotel rooms, so that repurposing apartments as pseudo-hotel rooms ceases to be an attractive investment.

Until this problem is actually understood, instead of blindly swallowing political propaganda, it won't simply go away,no matter how much noise and publicity stunts anarchist groups make regarding this issue.
The majority of users use virtually no hotkeys. A truly shocking portion don't even know how to copy and paste with their keyboard. Weep when you watch people who don't even know how shift keys work and hit caps lock letter caps lock.

I don't honestly believe that the inconsistency in colors or gui elements that exist on a typical linux system are a meaningful barrier to anyone.

A typical desktop ships with mostly qt or mostly gtk apps that share the same look and feel + a browser that looks and works like the user is used to working across platforms.

In a sense the browser is actually the single most important app for the majority of users and its more useful for it to be consistent with expectations than consistent with the desktop.

I think power users are more apt to be put off by small differences in much used keybindings but they are the minority.

While consistency may seem like an impossible task there are really 4 really big camps. Chrome Firefox gnome kde.

This seems like a small enough group that getting everyone to agree on a common way to communicate to all the desired way to define keybindings ought to be tractable.

I think this is a worthwhile endeavor we ought to persue.
Restaurants don't scale like applications do.

You can franchise, but the expansion is very different to what software can do.

That said, there are so many things that can be done better than the standard software, or where different varieties can work better for specific cases.
Excel uploads work, and you could edit some basic meta data or rename the file, but changes to the sheets are not supported, if that’s what you mean?
> The current situation in the music industry is not "ideal for consumers".

But it’s much better than it used to be, and it’s slowly approaching a healthy market.

I can stream most music from most streaming services.

I can buy DRM-free albums or songs for almost all artists in a plethora of online stores.

“Exclusive releases” does not seem to exist.

Compared to the current digital video market, this is pretty much nirvana.
1. This hasn't been demonstrated. In fact, when there is a housing shortage in the areas considered that strongly hints that friction in housing purchase is due to other factors than being able to match a buyer with a seller. So the average dollar value of this supposed liquidity is likely to be miniscule compared to the average dollar value of the capital appreciation.

2. I'm not going to get bogged down refuting bad analogies here.
Invading Taiwan would require huge amounts of troop and material. Those things have to been moved weeks if not months in advance and can be easily picked up by satellites. Add to that that you can't simply land your soldiers anywhere on the shore, there are only a few landing spots that can be used and which are of course heavily defended.
Also, the two lands are close to each other so Taiwan can send missiles to the mainland and cause heavy damage to the cities on China's east coast.
Finally the weather, which according to some people [0][1] offers only two short windows during which an invasion is likely to not fail.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Taiwan consists of about 70% of mountainous areas, i.e the perfect terrain for an organized resistance.

Invading Taiwan is but an easy task and it is believed to be an endeavor that would surpass the D-day.

[0] https://books.google.com.tw/books?id=mzwGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT117&l...
[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...
Have you ever watched a git graph visualization? Some committees are different, they usually start with a small module which is accepted and starts a whole chain reaction of follow up rewrites and sudden appearance of previously unfinished additions.
I agree actually, I live in Shanghai. I'm not sure if it's because I don't really u derstand urban planning but I don't really see what the fuss is over, you can still get around the city by bicycle if you want (and which I often do) and public transport is very convenient
Not natively by the hardware but possibly software decoded[1]

[1] https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=307065
Thanks for the clarification. For the purposes of my argument, the reason why the data no longer exists is irrelevant.
Good question. To expose data processing/Modelling to the masses we need an easy interface for the average user to upload data and maybe do some basic editing online.
Almost all of the projects built in the last 10-15 years years are self contained walled apartment communities with multiple building surrounding a courtyard/common area.

In Beijing, you just have to get out of the third ring road before these are very common. The first placed I lived in was not like that, it was an older building in a fairly urban area, but after that it was a bunch of complexes (nicer apartments, it was difficult to find something nice outside of a complex), still only a few blocks away from restaurants (or a mall), but all with guarded gates.

It really shows when you want to go somewhere. You can just go from point A to point B, you can’t cut across the huge apartment complex in the middle, you have to instead go around it...that can get really annoying. Likewise, there are only a few roads that let you get between places (eg trying to go from northeast Beijing to sanlitun area, there is only one way across the airport expressway before it ends).
I wouldn't say that's "the" larger question so much as a different question, which is fine and I'm happy to answer. Are there conditions under which we would modify story titles that might be offensive to some communities? Of course. We do that all the time. From my perspective this is not even a question, which is probably why I didn't mention it.

Would we edit a post title "A negro became the first person to fold a paper in half 12 times"? Of course. That's a no-brainer. But I have a different problem with what you're asking there. Such a title is an absurd construction. I've never seen a submission like that, and I can't imagine one ever appearing, except as a particularly lame troll. So you're basically asking me a trolley problem (as in trams, not trolls!)—entirely abstract, corresponding to nothing in lived experience. But everything that makes these questions hard about how people treat each other, resides in lived experience.

Edit: I spent the afternoon writing about this at length, almost an essay, but I don't know that it would be so helpful here. Its main point was that we can't move these problems unless we remain able to respond with the heart. To the extent that abstractions (such as ideological categories) function like a suit of armor that we wear into battle, they dampen heart responses or even suppress them altogether—at which point we no longer see the other as someone like ourselves. That is why I asked you how you'd feel if you were in the OP's situation. The key word is feel. For my part, I'd have felt awful and ashamed. That moves nothing forward.
Exactly this. As access fades, or price becomes untenable, piracy swoops in to correct the market. Unfortunate that we have to go through these tests, but hopefully it comes out better on the other side.
There are really mostly 2. Gtk and QT and themed with similar themes they aren't different enough to be too meaningful.
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> However, that same $1M/yr is enough to sustain a bootstrapped business and even possibly build the credibility to raise a larger round and try to win the space.

And often, $1M/yr is not even needed. Many developers don't necessarily want to become managers and worry about funding rounds, hiring, etc. $1M/yr is already a pretty good lifestyle, no need to get further funding or scale the business if you're happy running the project on your own.
I'm surprised that the article nor comments mention Lomography. When Instagram came along, the Lomography aesthetic was a major influence. I guess it goes in cycles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomography
Curious to know - is this going to be checklist centric ?

There was a recent post on how a simple thing like checklists can really cut infection and death rate by half or something. And there were startups that attempted to do this at the doctor level but failed to be able to drive change.

Would you be the GitHub of nursing - drive change from bottom up. Build checklist creation and adherence at the nurses level ?
These are valid considerations, but not tied to S3 (or uploading).

It's probably a happy problem if you end up worrying about S3 as a very DDoS-able part of your system.

Running up hosting bills is an scenario that can be addressed with various technical means (like a sibling comment explains). Many people seem to judge the risk * probability too small to put a lot of preemptive effort into it. It's basically a question of how much damage would be done until your monitoring catches it. AWS has also been known to "forgive" bills that were caused by malicious attackers in some situations.
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Most Electron apps are not only not efficient but also not performant.
If you can find a link to the article about post-1989 urban deisgn in China, that would be great. I doubt any contemporary urban area anywhere in the world are built (or re-built) in the form of "narrow, labyrinthine alleys unless it's about preserving historical structures. The major roads of Beijing within the 2nd Ring Road were built mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly inspired by Soviet urban planning. Perhaps you were talking about Haussmann's renovation of Paris?

And no, many Southern Chinese cities still have complex layouts in their historical districts (e.g. Suzhou, Nanjing, Yangzhou). Just check them out on Google Maps. No one in their right minds will build anything without following a grid pattern at least loosely in the post-WWII era. Having reasonably wide roads to accommodate traffic is just basic urban planning. Many rapidly growing Chinese cities suffer from chronic traffic congestion because even the roads built in the 90s don't have enough capacity to handle so many cars. Maybe the "eight-lane highways" were needed because of that?
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I think one of the question to ask yourself is: is that competing product the one I'd have built? Is it a product that would solve the problem I wanted to solve perfectly? Is that product awesome?

If the answer's yes, you probably should stop. Because at best, you'd make the same product. If not, see where the product fails and try and estimate what could be better and is it worth it.

Last, remember that the later you are on the market, the more expensive it gets to get attention. You'll either need cash or need to seek funding.
> Do you think it's reasonable for a project to cost 10x as much just for that precious consistency?

Somewhat, yes. You want to be able to plan. Inefficiency is often the price for being able to plan. Since it's often not only about this one project, a higher price is just fine - you may have to coordinate with marketing, legal, sales, manufacturing etc, then the total price will often be so large that the 10x of the software project doesn't really matter, but if it falls flat and gets everything delayed, the damage may be huge (think global launch date missed).
It's pretty hard nowadays to come up with a brilliant unique idea that has never been implemented before. I'm not even sure it's possible at all.
Competition means there's a market and customers willing to pay for a product. This is a validation of your idea.

Now, unless you're shooting for the unicorn status, there's a pretty good chance you can build a good product, compete and get enough customers to make a living.
You don't have to be the best or the cheapest to compete and you don't need hundreds of thousands of customers to make a living.

In the end, i think it really depends on what you're trying to achieve: unicorn status or small side project that you'll enjoy working on and might someday become a full time job.

Either way you should try to do what you love, or if that's not an option, to learn to love what you do. That way, even if you don't succeed, your time won't be wasted and will be spent doing something you love.
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Hey,

Most real-time video processing systems/techniques only address relationships of objects within the same frame, disregarding time information. Optical flow accounts for this temporal relationship between frames.
Advances in Optical Flow have changed the game in Object Tracking and Human Activity Recognition in videos.

This article explains the fundamentals and gives you the code to try it out for yourself.
The main attraction of Apple products is the certainty that, no matter what you do, they cannot be made to do what you would like. The consequence is that you feel no urge to spend time tinkering to get there, and instead adapt yourself to what it actually does. This reclaims all the time and attention that you would have spent on tinkering.

Since what Apple products do has proven adequate for a large number of people, and you are no less adaptable than they are, you know you can adapt, too.

Having once chosen to adapt to what Apple has chosen to offer, you find it easier each time, until it becomes wholly unconscious. Each time Apple takes away something you had used, you might momentarily balk at the "upgrade", but always acquiesce in the end.

[Edit] So, the appeal of Mac emulation is very limited, because it starts out with tinkering.
Jetbrains had over a quarter of a million paying users in 2017. I'm not sure how much the average paying user spends but presumably they make somewhere between 37M and 125M gross. More money means more polish. Logically we need to invest in what is important to us.
Where the hell is this "hitler worshipping" going on in reddit?
So much this. Someone needs to poll millennials to show this. I've never had avocado toast, and when I hear "Instagram influencer" it either comes across as "marketer"(/model) or someone who is spending way to much time online.

And let's edit our photos a different way — so they seem genuine. Oh, the irony.

And half the time all I want are shoes or clothing that fit, and often that criteria eliminates 95+% of the stock stores seem to keep these days.
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How do you distinguish between actions that have negative social consequences and actions that are inherently wrong?
> Every day of the working week, I anxiously check WhatsApp for updates on “beef strip boy”.

You and your friend should get a life.
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Looking through, seeing as you are now amusingly encouraging me to analyse another person's post history; Only 3 posts, posted over the course of a year, all only in support of facebook. I wouldn't confidently mark the account as subtle astroturfing, could be an extremely lazy but also seemingly enthusiasic facebook fan, but it raises an eyebrow now you draw my attention to it. I mean, shilling does exist. As to your closing point, the existence of some nuance to an argument doesn't have any real bearing on the possibility of a given account indulging in shilling. It may be unreasonable, but if it is, it is not because of that.
Those exist in China as well (all fairly old), but are different from what the article is talking about, which are more like gated communities.
Skrivener is a great tool to organize your thinking.

Its a really terrible tool at the point you engage with a professional editor or proofreader: its constructed text outputs are not easy to work with, and it tempts the author to make "just a few more changes" which ruin the proofing and review process.

Think in skriviner, but move to something else when you engage with publishing as a fixed-text outcome.

(based on what my S.O. said about working on a 600 page book)
>geographical balancing against population density was the Great Compromise

That's flowery language to disguise what was essentially a pact between wealthy industrialists and slavers.

It's long past time to dismantle that "compromise."
Actually, airbnb offerings are indeed tightly regulated and heavily taxed in some jurisdictions. AirBnB didn't invented short-term rentals, nor does the company offer any servicd other than serving as a specialized POS for short-term rentals.
No to mention if its well written and documented it's not impossible or even necessarily all that hard for another talented dev to ramp up and take over...
Thanks for responding, and for creating this tool in the first place. Great work!
Hey I know monthly is more popular with investors but thanks for offering a one time fee, I consider that quite innovative for the web-hosting market :)
Yes! But ironically I'm also put off by things not being done.

Currently working on a (side project) small service where I know at least one place needs it. It's small enough in scope that I don't mind following it through to completion.
Even in this reply, you fail to mention that JavaScript and Python (and the old Java) drivers uses another protocol for which the latency SLA does not hold!

That information is vital. And it looks as though you are correcting me, when you are not.

This kind of attitude (throughout documentation) is my exact issue -- MS is always about selling, always hiding critical info, at the expense of helping engineers take the right choices.
And Alta Vista existed before Google...
I think that depends on whether big bang was global event that created matter in the entire universe (then no, because it's too far) or local event that affected observable universe (then we could see the spacetime curvature caused by outside objects and even gravitational waves that are older than the age of observable universe).
The heuristic for this is can you make the product 10x better (along a dimension that matters) for some subset of consumers? The subset can be equal to the set: Zoom makes video conferencing 10x better on reliability for the whole market. That said, that case is much rarer. It is often much easier to deeply understand the needs of a subset of users and make a tailored solution that delivers a 10x outcome to that set of users. Examples here are CRMs that specialize on industry verticals vs Salesforce. A pharmaceutical CRM is functionally very different than a one size fits all CRM.
PS Also, stop looking for big markets. Look for a small market that you can dominate quickly and logically extend from there.
PPS Most ideas here stolen from Thiel
I think it depends where in Shanghai you lived. If you lived in Huangpu, Changing, Xuhui or Jingan districts, bicycle is fine. These are Shanghai's richy-rich areas, once part of the foreign colonial concessions from 19th to mid-20th century. Filled with heritage architecture similar to the Beijing hutongs described in the article above. But once you branch-out to other districts, e.g. Jiading--the industrial district just a few subway stops to the north, it's a different arrangement.
After 8 days of offline server. Now just server online. Still i am facing problems with a2 hosting. More than 1 month of data is lost. What a bad service. My friend recommended me to move to asphostportal. Is it good decision?
Except in development time and cost.
Oh, and if anyone with write access to your repositories had their GH/BB account linked to their DockerHub account, your source code could be compromised.

AFAIK the only way to check is to ask every person who has write access and hope they tell the truth.

Honestly, everyone should probably check their repos for recent activity / commits.

We need more fine-grained permissions for things like this. Principle of Least Authority, people.

Now is a good time to review authorized application https://github.com/settings/installations and if you're part of a GitHub organization I highly recommend setting up OAuth application restrictions https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-oauth-app-access-r...
One of the issues is that most disabled people are also poor. Their disability simultaneously imposes extra expenses and tends to limit earning capacity.

Most of the replies here are genuinely not interested in understanding the reasons this stuff is a hot button topic in disabled circles. I'm basically being grilled on the assumption that:

A. I'm too stupid to have thought of any obvious solutions being proposed here and this don't have actual legitimate reasons for my preferences.

B. I owe the entire world justification for my preferences.

C. I speak for and represent the entire disabled community on all topics, even ones I'm only passingly familiar with because they don't happen to be big issues for me in specific.

Bags aren't banned where I currently live. They are banned in California. I was living there at the time that they were banned. I was also homeless at the time. People are equally aggressively dismissive of comments I make about the bag ban being a burden on the poorest of the poor.

Poor people, disabled people and women seem to all be equally dismissed. And then folks just can't seem to understand the rage some folks in those populations feel about various things.

Which is like wow. Seriously?
The logical option c is just to not support mac unless your target market is one disproportionately likely to use macs like developers or artists in the US.
GNUSTEP, you mean. OPENSTEP is the fossil GNUSTEP wants to be.

In fairness, they've made strides since then. The Foundation library seems to be aiming for compatibility with a macOS release from several years ago, at least still more recent than the early-to-mid 90s.