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I'm confused. It prompts me all the time to change my default browser to Edge. Microsoft products ignore the default browser bit and open links in Edge, which them opens pop-ups to change my default browser to Edge.

Even the UI for changing the default browser in Settings heavily encourages you to set Edge.
I don't think building purchasing should even be allowed, remove all of the slippery slope and put students on equal footing.
I think they were talking about the GP's hypothetical scenario, where renting would be llegal.
Sure, but if we're actually talking about donating a building (maybe I took that too literally?), we're talking about 3 kids a year, tops. It would barely change the 2nd decimal place in an acceptance percentage at a lot of schools.
Guidelines definitely say keep your hands on the wheel and be ready to take over.

plus it beeps at you to take over.
On the V2, or something else?
>Contrary to popular belief, AMP isn’t another “channel” or “format” that’s somehow not the web.

One of its advertised qualities is being hosted directly by these ''caches'', which are typically run by Google.

>It’s not an SEO thing.

I've read that Google treats AMP specially in search results, not that I'd know firsthand.

>It’s not a replacement for HTML. It’s a web component framework that can power your whole site.

Doesn't it replace tag names, such as IMG with AMP-IMG? Sure, that's technically still HTML, but only in the most base understanding, since unrecognized tags will be ignored.

>Web pages are already a great distribution format, and AMP just improves upon it by accelerating delivery via AMP caches and by bundling the main content further, for instance by inlining CSS.

These caches, in all practicality, aren't being run by the people who write these pages, which is a major difference, isn't it? You can inline CSS manually; I do.

>The same is true for Paired AMP. It’s super hard to maintain both versions over time, and Paired AMP was never meant to be the end state.

I don't know what this is, but is this telling me they want everything to be AMP?

>AMP isn’t just accelerated, it comes with all sorts of built-in UX advantages (e.g. disallowing interstitials, enforcing a free main thread for smooth interactions).

That may or may not be considered a good thing, but AMP doesn't let you change this, now does it?

>And AMP doesn’t just power pages anymore – you can now build ads, emails and stories with it.

Only Google thinks shoving this garbage into email is a good idea. Only Google and other awful groups are concerned with building ads, too.

>We, the AMP team, want AMP to become a natural choice for modern web development of content websites, and for you to choose AMP as a framework because it genuinely makes you more productive.

So, they do want everything to become AMP, eventually.

>You’ll now only maintain one version of each page by making your AMP canonical, or so-called “AMP first“, and that means your pages benefit from AMP’s performance and UX optimizations across Desktop, mobile and beyond.

This is harrowing to read.

>AMP First doesn’t mean that strictly all pages of your site must be AMP – sometimes you might want maximum flexibility and distribution is not a big concern, like with a member-only area or complex shopping cart.

That's at least the case for now, anyway, right?

>Of course, it might not make sense for you to drop everything and reimplement your site in AMP today, and that’s OK! I just want you to know that we’ve grown up quite a bit, and when you set out to redesign or create something new, AMP is here to help you succeed.

No, I'll continue writing my web pages by hand, only referencing other files on my website if I can help it, and with no JavaScript whatsoever.
I'm surprised that this scandal doesn't seem to be causing anyone to think one step further and realize that the entire premise of "elite" colleges with competitive admissions is a device for the perpetuation of inequality. We're devoting most of our advanced educational resources to helping people who would already be successful reap even more rewards.

I understand the idea of meritocracy in fields with life or death urgency—maybe we should be as selective as possible to make sure we're finding the best scientists or whatever. But the idea that Harvard is using its hideously huge tax-deductible endowment to teach rich people's children to do high frequency trading is far more scandalous than these marginal cases of bribery.

As a society, we should not be devoting so many resources to helping the best-positioned kids succeed to the exclusion of kids starting with less advantage.
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But they're generally unionized. Google employees are not.
Ok, I guess I am out of the loop on the meaning of fascism. However, even if I substitute the word "bullying" the statement doesn't make sense to me:

"Google employees protesting the makeup of the AI Ethics council appeared like the closest thing to bullying in the USA that I have ever witnessed"

I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm splitting hairs, but I genuinely don't understand what the OP is trying to stay in that statement. Is he saying Google employee's protesting of the AI board is the worst example of bullying they have seen?
Tangentially, there are two professors that swear by the idea of taking glucose readings soon after eating to know the impact of different foods in your diet. Theoretically, if you eat things that don't raise your glucose too much you can lose weight.

It sounds logical, but I don't know if it's really useful if you're not diabetic.

Edit: the book is called "The Personalized Diet."
I'm going to steal your quote.

Sometime I equate the near constant complaint about Agile processes with a hypothetical set of engineers complaining about a 'baseball' process. "The 'Baseball process' sucks because our psychopathic managers beat us with the bats to get us to work harder. If only we switched to the "soccer" process, things would get better because there's nothing for them to hit us with, they'll just punch and kick us. "
While we're all angry at this bribery program, can we please also be angry at legacy admissions? Far more kids skate in on legacy than bribes and the school doesn't even get a nice bit of cash for those sorts of admissions.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here.
Will you allow rents to increase to cover increased costs?
I guess it's probably not very realistic but to me the only way to get to real security that you can count on to last is to change the whole paradigm.

I mean the basic premise is that the bottom line for control is deadly force.

Maybe there really is no alternative but I think it's worth mentioning that as long is that is the operating mode, there is no real security for human life. You can certainly have extended periods without major wars but as long as the paradigm remains, it's always just a matter of time before the next mass killing starts.

I mean as far as Taiwan goes, it's right next to China, there is a long history. The paradigm is that you have a right to whatever you can take by force. If they get to the point where they can invade successfully and don't think that it is _actually_ going to start WW3, they may feel obligated to do it. Because yes it would probably result in a large loss of life, but the international operating mode is that serious conflicts are resolved with machines designed to destroy property and lives.
Just this past month Stop & Shop workers struck and the company lost a lot of money before negotiating an end favorable to workers. This is effective.

Upper class professionals are less likely to strike even though proportionally they are giving away far more of their surplus labor.
In a lot of America, the scarcity is kind of artificial or unstable though, so it's still a risky investment. Look at California City - land there is anything but scarce. Or Detroit where the seemingly indestructible world-leading industry it depended on for house value shifted out from under it. Or the concepts of white flight and gentrification where neighborhoods can be tipped one way or the other in a self-perpetuating avalanche effect that doesn't necessarily correspond to any fundamental change in their utility. What's scarce isn't property in general, but property near rich people. If the rich people move away, so do the property values. I'd say property investors are chasing after rich people extracting value out of their desire to congregate together.

Housing investment doesn't really have the ability to live in it. If you don't rent out your house, you're losing investment returns. Plenty of property investors depend on rents, not just price rises for their profit. As long as you live in a house in the free market, you're paying for that privilege, whether you own it or not. What it does provide over renting is you can't be kicked out so easily. I think that could be the main reason families prefer to buy houses instead of rent.
Pilots still need to take over sometimes despite the autopilot. The name is fine.
Ah, okay. Nurses then. Though they haven't chosen to do much en masse yet.
This assertion that it's a value-add for the rest of the students assumes that they wouldn't have new buildings donated by alumni as an honest donation and not a bribe.

I think it would be very interesting to see a plot of the number of buildings named for the donor + how many children of donors were admitted in exchange for these buildings. I would expect that schools can get all the endowment they need without trading admission for it. Anyone seriously trading a building for a spot in the school is not making a trade in the best interest of the school, they are playing favorites to keep particular donors happy. But wouldn't the school be better off as a whole, to stand with integrity, without the cloud of corrupt donors?
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Could Subaru resell Model 3’s rebadged and allow their customers to claim the $7500 tax credit?
People are always surprised when I tell them, in the long term housing can only increase an amount equivalent to inflation or wages. Anything more, simply isn't sustainable or even desirable (for society anyway). In fact, in the longer term, if we were making actual progress in creating shelter for humanity, then housing should increase a bit less than inflation and return negative real rate of return.
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I agree. One thing that drives me nuts in macOS is launching something, hopping to another window while I wait for it to launch, then having the new window steal focus (multiple times).

I'm very happy to see people experiment with new desktop models, though.
If this were the case, wouldn't anyone just be able to successfully sue essentially any MMORPG that went under?
Back a while high school was the sort of "standard education" things have changed and now college is considered the default level people should have in the workforce, back when college was rare I think private colleges made sense, they were more of a final specialty training step at the end of your education - now that has shifted over to PhDs - let PhD programs remain privatized for whatever reasons, but we should extend government grants to cover all two and four year degrees and publicize the sector. Some kids will still stop their education at middle school - or high school, but we as a society benefit if everyone who wants one can get a college education.
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Sure, if rentals becomes more scarce some will be forced to pay more and some will be driven out of the state. What other option is there? They can suddenly afford a house?
To go to Mars, SpaceX needs lots of steady revenue and low-cost launches. The more launches SpaceX does, the lower the cost per launch, due to the manufacturing learning curve and high reusability. Rather than wait for customers to come up with applications that require lots of launches, they made their own.
It's because TVs have become computers with a display.

Try an analog TV and you'll see real speed!
There's nothing wrong with giving, but there is something wrong with giving and calling it a donation, when in reality it's a quid pro quo transaction. Which is illegal, but unprovable. Matt Levine's comment quoted elsewhere in this thread is describes the only difference in the scenarios.
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I saw Fathom a while ago and it looked very useful, but the fact that it only supported a single site per instance was a non-starter for me. Have they changed that?
Epic Games seem to be making a gambit that if they can become a marketplace that has significant market share compared to steam all the bad will will be worth it and people will forget. Since they know this Fortnite thing is kind of a limited windfall. So they are going HARD.
Toleration of intolerance is self-defeating, but you probably knew that.
we need housing to be affordable (for everyone), not affordable housing.
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On top of all that, if it was human it wouldn't have the ability to file for any meaningful type of bankruptcy here in the States. Corporations have it made.
What is so worrying about China's massive military build up is that there's no benign explanation.

China wants access to the world's oceans which isn't dictated by a foreign power. China wants ocean access parity with the United States, along with the opportunity to become the global dominant superpower in the 21st century.

It seems like in the best case he is preparing to take Taiwan and in the worst case he's planning to take all of Asia

Taiwan is the cork in the bottle. If China has that, then there is no keeping them bottled up.

The simple fact is that if these two dictators can figure out how take out the U.S. then there's nothing stopping them from taking over the entire world.

The US doesn't need to be taken out. All they have to do, is to out-compete the US in economic power, then use the money to build a more modern, more powerful Navy.

Look at the resources and air superiority it took to pull off the Normandy landing. When China becomes capable of all that, even temporarily, it will be able to take Taiwan, then eventually take its place as the new superpower.
What is your reasoning for such a small penalty?

Generally a person who is caught and convicted of crime X is penalized enough to dissuade others of that crime. Which means that the severity of the penalty times the odds of being caught has to be proportional to the value of committing the crime. Since the parents were willing to spend tens of thousands, and their odds of being caught were low, the appropriate penalty should be stiff if it is to have the right effect.

Now is it disproportionate to other crimes? No. Most states have laws about the theft of large amounts of property. With per state thresholds starting in the $1-$5k range, you can get a prison sentence for grand larceny of 1-10 years.

So treat this as stealing from some other applicant the right to go to the university of their choice. I can come to this being a value stolen of tens of thousands in multiple ways. Starting with the fact that the thieves were willing to spend tens of thousands, and continuing with an estimate of the impact on that unlucky loser's future income. That makes it grand larceny, and a 2 year jail sentence is perfectly in line with crimes of a similar magnitude.

While I am generally against how much the US puts people in jail, I applaud the fact that this case treats white collar crime with similar seriousness to blue collar crime.
Nurses are unionized and politically active: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-pulse/2019/04/...

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/apr/02/washington-nur...

Pretty much the only high-paying job that isn't unionized are doctors, but they use the American Medical Association to limit supply.
That is, unfortunately, the problem with neural nets in general.

They are amazing logical constructs, but there is a fundamental opaqueness to them that absent sufficient neural network mass to convincingly simulate a human, we can't apply the same methods of formal verification and behavioral inference we could for other more specific machine implementations.

No one can explain just why certain weights work at certain situations and not others. They just do.

Whether someone in the justice system is comfortable effectively legislating from the bench by creating precedent holding companies liable for NN based behavior that there are no hard and fast ways for them to proof test against in the first place is another question however.
Because the proctor was the one who was bribed, not the organization itself.
The article is true if you limit the definition of “good investment” and “wealth-building” to mean rent appreciation. But if you take a broader definition of investment (as in a farmer invested in a tractor, or a contractor invested in a pickup truck, or a property owner invested in improvements, or a landlord invested in buying an underpriced property with an unusually high capitalization rate), then it is counterproductive. When people talk about housing as an investment around the country, how often are they referring to zero-sum rent increases, vs. how often are they referring to capital expenditures that expand the pie? And how do we get people to celebrate one type of investing (capitalism) instead of the other kind of investing (rentiers).
Interesting that the V-2 project cost $2 billion. This is around the same as the Manhattan project, and 1 billion less than the B-29 programme.

The V-2 was ludicrously expensive, especially compared to the V-1 which the RAF estimated cost around 120 pounds (~$500) each.

The V-2 project probably hastened Germany's defeat by consuming high tech components like turbines and electronics that could have been better used in aircraft.
Colleges are an educational resource, that we currently conceive of as limited - this resource should be distributed primarily to the students who benefit from it the most. Other factors like legacy, donations, bribes, and athletic ability should all be removed from the equation.
Second that. Only thing I’ve seen in the studios I’ve worked at for game clients. Here and there I see game servers moving into git if they aren’t sharing a codebase with the client.