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Your assumption of a 100% savings rate is not quite reality though. More realistically, suppose both people save 50%. Then in 20 years, the rentier is about 2x richer than the worker. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+i+from+0+to+20+(50... vs https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+i+from+0+to+20+(50...
I'm just a casual Linux user, but I'm wondering: is there a demand for this? I've been using Linux Mint and it already comes with a pseudo store. Everything else that I've been installing was one apt-get command away. Is this meant to make Linux more accessible to people who don't currently use it?
Great straight forward writing that still sparks interest!
One of my favourites is his "The Conquest of Happiness". A very good commonsense approach to life. Some quotes at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Happiness
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Your "mistakes" matter, because depending on their severity, people will be more or less likely to help you.
As long as there are is enforcement to prevent people from harvesting stuff to sell, there would always be more food than people. E.g. in NYC there are something like 30,000 acres of parks, so you could have literally hundreds of acres landscaped with edible species without meaningfully reducing other forms of public space.
That's totally fair. Is there a way to separate wealth inequality from power inequality? e.g. Let's say I'm ok with Steve Jobs hoarding billions of he creates something game-changing for society over decades of starting/running a business, as long as that doesn't mean his vote is more important than that of an entire state.

Does this boil down to the fact that, in the current political system, wealth can be traded for political power, and if that exchange didn't exist, then wealth wouldn't be an issue in the first place?
My experience is that they want to send out mobile service units in preference to having you take the car in -- which isn't that much of a problem in my eyes.
Sure, but if your car was working perfectly fine on the way in to the game and three hours later hundreds of people can't get into their cars either...you're thinking the bomb is coming.
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Good luck making the unit economics work. I can't imagine that people would respond well to a price hike in general, but in a market this saturated, any competitor will be happy to undercut them. The key here is that they're running out of cash, so any player who can last longer will have a better shot to make the business model work.
I just got a bunch of these yesterday, all from Sierra Leone
Agree on malicious, especially given that the Max change was a big hack of an existing airframe. It needed all the extra safety features it could get; to charge through the nose for them was shocking and callous.

However, given the amount of Boeing planes out there, and the number of employees, the company dying would be harsh. What needs to happen is a fundamental shift of culture; this is why I think that leadership should be held responsible for what's happened, and that this (with leaders in jail, new ones would have to take their place) would help force the changes that need to happen for safety and engineering quality again to be the number one drivers - not just profits and bean counting.

It's an opportunity for them to fully reset the company. Fingers crossed, it will happen.
> It would be interesting to see how this played out during medieval era during black death era.

pretty sure the vast majority of people did not own any land at all at that time, and that land was not bought and sold in the way that it is today. Did the concept of housing prices even exist then?
Apparently, pilots can only be rated for one type at a time.

So during the cross-over period, you will need two completely independent fleets of pilots, one to operate the old 737s and one to operate the new A320-NEOs.

Each fleet needs to have different spare pilots to cover absences or overtime emergencies. And the pilots who currently are training for the new type rating can't be in either fleet.

The airline will have to temporally increase the number of pilots until the whole switch-over finishes.
> allow users to be able to see the "Real" underlying phone number

There are many cases where people will find it unacceptable. You don't want someone to dial directly to someone's desk at a corporation rather than front desk. You don't want someone to call a doctor on their private phone (they call out via practice's number from the road). Etc.

You can't solve this issue by providing the two number. It's only solvable by making spam calls expensive for the callers, or punishing telcos for unverified spoofing.
These apps steal your phonebook and upload it
US cops. Canadian cops dont carry full auto often, and when they do it is never used. It goes against rcmp training. I cannot think of any canadian examples of cops using full auto.
Depends on the person. Ignoring the metaphysical question, some people mean "how much of ourselves do we see in them?" Other people mean something like "how much of a theoretical limit of intelligent capacity do we see in them?" The distinction here is that if we use ourselves as the definition of 100% soulfull then anything more intelligent than us has less of a soul simply because it deviates from our norm, whereas if we use some theoretical limit of intelligence we allow ourselves to potentially recognise something else as being more soulfull than us. What we mean by intelligence, and whether we care about specific types of intelligence (e.g. social intelligence) more than others, is left as an exercise for the reader.
The way a friend described it to me, if you have a child, and that child is out of your sight, you sort of have to be open to answering phone calls from your local area.
So now it’s about 10% as good as Taobao
Every once in a while I find a site like yours that has conveniently aggregated a ton of stray thoughts and expands my world a little bit. Just wanted to take a moment to say thanks for doing this
Grab is a hot mess - my biggest gripe is popup ads. They have the nasty habit to show you one, and block you, at the worse moment, like when you are trying to select your destination.

Some ads have no "escape" button and you have to make a choice between two options in a foreign language. You pick one blindly and there is a 50% chance you will be shopping for fast-food instead of going to your appointment.

All of which to sell you something you don't want and "save" you $0.50.
Tests and code reviews aren't right or wrong, but take this opportunity to form your own opinion of how you would like to work, and be sure to ask about it when you are interviewing for your next job.

Just as some would run screaming from a place without mandatory code reviews, others would run screaming from a place with mandatory code reviews.

You should be able to get close to real answers about these practices during interviews, there may be some bias towards aspiring to have tests and code reviews, but asking for details should filter out aspirations from actualities.

On the other hand, 12 hour work days, with weekends is clearly bad, and it may be hard to tell who is saying the things you want to hear, only because you want to hear it.

Having a good reason to not be in the office crazy hours is something to mention in interviews "i've heard [industry] can be crazy, but i've got a strict schedule because of X, that won't be a problem right?" Bonus points if you can come up with something plausible, true, with positive connotations and something they wouldn't get in trouble for asking about.
My point is that in 1981 you could make a movie on the premise that NYC would be like this in 16 years.

That tells you something about NYC in 1981!!

Or so I imagine(d). You're probably right that my intended message doesn't exactly reach everyone...
Your numbers are off. If both people save $50k each from their investment/wage income, then both of them will earn 10% returns on that $50k of savings. Hence why they cancel each other out. You've only given the worker 3% returns on his savings, not 10%
“Ok. So?” Well so Computer Science has been focusing mainly on the predictive side (ML/AI) and you had a lot of intellectual whining that they’re “re-inventing” statistics just with different terminology. I’m not sure if this is just an attempt to down play their results or if it’s more academic jealousy because the funding goes to the “cool stuff” like AI/ML in the CS dept. and the Stats dept. is seen as old and boring. That’s what it feels like. You’ll even see this type of commentary in the preface of books like All of Statistics.

No matter what comes from empirical research in Computer Science re: prediction/classification methods you’ll hear the Stats camp crying that it’s “just Statistics” at the end of the day. Fair enough, but computational Statistics was then neglected for long enough that computer scientists had to create more powerful techniques independently and can claim priority on that front. Theory lags practice in this area.
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This is such a great point because it underscores the importance of viewing investments with a longer time scale than I am used to.
This is presumably for things shipped by Amazon, which seems really rare (for me) on Amazon.
Maybe set up a VM on AWS and bring a new laptop over the border. Or leave your laptop at home and VM into it. Or ship your laptop to where ever you're staying and bring a burner phone over the border. Doesn't seem like a difficult problem to solve.
> In the months after the Lion Air crash, Boeing quietly worked to appease some customers, according to a person briefed on the matter. In several instances, it activated the angle of attack indicator for free, which then turned on the disagree alert.

Instead of activating the indicator for all customers, Boeing only activated it for customers that explicitly asked. Greedy until the end.
Pilots don't buy the planes.
Robbery . I updated it. from 2008. But I wasn't deported at the time of the charge I've had other misdemeanors like selling drugs recently which got me deported
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I think you're too quick to dismiss the importance of the disagree indicator, and doing so on a shaky basis. A significant amount of time was spent trying to figure out what the hell was happening. I think it's safe to assume that if the pilots saw an error warning pop up warning that there was a disagreement between two sensors, that would focus their attention on that system—which quite conceivably could have caused them to shut it off manually sooner.
Carry a computer with encrypted data but don't use it; remove the hard drive to copy the data to another computer in order to decrypt the data with the separate key. Discard the old hard drive and old computer afterward.

Do not use a single key; require several keys that are with different people, combined only in the way that you know how. Ensure the people are present to notice if the police try to come in.
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I'm interested to know if you use any health app which can remind and track you on the following.

1. Eye strain
2. Sitting for long hours
3. Water intake

Thanks in advance.
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I hate our legal system. I don't have any faith that justice is found there.
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>Historical lies and no mathematical content, and even a wrong paradox, Logicomix has stretched "popularization" too far.

Artistic license
Update: It seems this happens if the directory that contains the bin\ directory is named "Scopes".
Fun to watch, but it could never be a reasonable simulation. Unless the model ships were hundreds of meters appart, the trajectories would be far too flat. To be close enough to score a hit you wouldnt be able to hole the other ship near the waterline. You would just blast at superstructures without ever sinking.

And there was an easy(ish) way to stabilize the guns. Mercury switches were used to ensure they only fired when the hull was reasonably level.
> Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messages

This seems like backwards reasoning. If you named a new platform after pigeons, which were actually used for transmitting information, you'd get critics saying "It's so archaic, nobody has used pigeons for 80 years!" Birds carrying messages is just as "extinct" of a metaphor as Mastodons are as an animal.
Yes, exactly - its a concession to drivers that Uber never offered. Its one small factor (plus Uber's open hostility to taxis) that I believe gave Grab an edge in the regulatory negotiations. When taxis and overzealous regulators wanted a target Uber was easier to take aim at vs the local startup heroes (Grab started out in Malaysia and has always seemed to have better executed diplomacy locally.).

FWIW I'd never wait an hour - manually add a tip, increasing the amount until you get a ride. It's like your own personal surge pricing :D
I'm also not impressed. He asserts blithely that "the goal is not interpretability, but accurate information", that is, only predictive ability matters. Maybe this is true in some domains, but in my experience scientists usually give a shit about what the hidden function is and are trying to learn how it behaves. No one in science wants to be left with a black box that you can't move past, they want a deeper understanding of the underlying phenomenon.
Time to call their BS and fine heftily to avoid such behavior in future. Imagine Boeing responsible for manned space flights.
Can you elaborate with specific examples?
Yes. One vaccine contains less mercury than one (average) serving of fish, and the mercury is in a less toxic form.
My mom has this. While I'm hopeful this may lead to an effective treatment, it won't give her back the many years she's lived with the disease.
I'm not a C# expert by any means. Is the IntegrityHash of the plaintext, and not the ciphertext?
https://github.com/nrosvall/ylva/blob/2a4afcfb3727151fa09fdd...

That would be a really serious flaw. If not, hand rolled AES-CBC-SHA256.... why not just use an AEAD implementation? This is exactly why I look at these. There's a lot of nuance to that one decision, and so it usually gives quite a bit of signal about the project as a whole.
Everything you just said is a massive inconvenience.
This is a great post. You echo my thoughts exactly in a concise and direct manner.
Japan has had sounding rockets for ~50 years. So this was the first privately funded rocket to reach space or something?
Useful additional context/counterpoint:

https://twitter.com/halvarflake/status/1125169161125158913
People absolutely got hurt in the VW thing, and will continue to be harmed.

One study claims "1200 premature deaths" in Europe alone: http://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-deat...
TCAM lookup times are not dependent on number of entries. It is always constant.
Federal taxes don't exist to raise revenue, because the USD is a sovereign currency (the federal government is the sole issuer of the USD). They exist to avoid inflation and disincentivise certain behaviour.

The real solution is to simply spend more money to elevate people out of poverty. But then the question everyone asks is "how will you pay for it?" and instead of answering with the correct answer ("deficit spending is not the original sin, the reason why we are deficit spending is the important question") most political candidates instead say they'll tax rich people.

It just so happens that reducing the amount of money and influence incredibly wealthy people have has its own benefits (less corruption and lobbying power for one), but revenue raising is not one of them.
Good question.

Let's just put things in perspective. In the 10 years that the FAANG developer took to reach 400k income, some born-with-a-silver-spoon asset holding trust fund kid made more than $1 million a year, with lesser taxes than the FAANG holder.

The question is who was more productive? Why was the unproductive person taxed less for their income on that capital gains?
Don't let religion hijack the word. The word soul in non-religious meaning (which more than often is referring to an "immortal soul", or a soul independent of a body), is referring to your "you-ness", the fact that you are greater than the sum of your parts. It's referring to the program running on the hardware, rather than the hardware.

Cogito, ergo sum
Indeed. Using similar logic one could have correctly predicted the 1949 attack on the Empire State Building by a giant ape.
What day did you respond? This is a key piece of information you've left out.

What was the postmark date on the letter's envelope?

Do you use USPS Informed Delivery?

Had you spoken with them before receipt of the letter? Your thirty days under the FDCPA runs from first contact.

The first avenue I would try is the credit bureaus. Request that they validate the debt and inform them that you have disputed it. Be advised that the first request for debt validation is almost always treated in a cursory manner. You will probably need to request that they re-validate in order to gain any traction.
/r/RealTesla is the sub you want.
Hmm, I guess this year everyone writes their own password manager.

(Can we have a year of fast PIM outliners? The competition is pretty sparse there.)
I keep seeing this drummed up, but at the same time global stats show that we are living collectively and individually in the most prosperous time in human history, with record low rates of poverty. The divide between rich, poor and middle class are largely led by one thing...stock holdings, among other volatile assets (though this is not what the media reports, I mean most of them are public companies.) I feel like Joseph Schumpeter warned about this.

In the end, I think unlike most of the more radical ideas that are anti-market out there...people mostly just want better social safety nets. That's not a "reform" of capitalism, that's a reform of government.
I own a decent number of Amazon shares. I’m sure they can ship most places, but to any Amazon management folks reading this - is the longer term plan to kill Amazon.com the store? The experience has gotten somewhat akin to EBay. It seems like it’s intentional, but I can’t tell. There are any number of shady sellers selling the item I want to buy. I have to manually click often times to ensure I’m buying from Amazon. Even then, a few times I’ve received the wrong item in the wrong box. I digress but despite your earnings call and all the financial disclosures, I still have no idea what you guys are doing.
Really? Because I wouldn't accept a normal salary unless it was 20% higher than my contracting rates. Because I go through my own company I get to minimize my taxes so much that regular employment seems like a ripoff by comparison.
Family should come first. Sit down with your team and have an honest conversation.
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> I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday.

I answer the phone all the time and it's always someone I know. I do not have a caller id display.

Here's how I managed that.

Only 4 people know my real phone number and are under orders not to add it to any digital address book.

My phone number is registered to an alias. I pay for my phone using cash.

My area code is in a city I've never lived in and have no connection to.

I add my number to the do not call list.

For generic phone number requests, such as stores and shipper that demand it, it's always 555-1212.

Of course this method won't work well for people who need to give their phone number out to people they don't know. But then again if that result is simply not to answer the phone ever, why would that be better. And for those who really only ever want to hear from a half dozen or fewer trusted friends and family, this is a solution that works.
It was Tesla's choice not to use a dealer network. That smooths out production, inventory, and supply chain. It makes service more locally incentivized, too.

I think this was a big mistake by Tesla. I don't expect Rivian to repeat it.
A lot of people also want increased social mobility.
> Is there a way to separate wealth inequality from power inequality?

No. Money can buy manpower, resources, time, and political access. Power can buy the laws in your favor and access to resources and manpower and make time in your favor.

> Let's say I'm ok with Steve Jobs hoarding billions

The surplus should have went to the workers. The fact he uses the surplus as his primarily personal slush fund to then reuse is an abomination.

> he creates something game-changing for society over decades of starting/running a business

Anybody could create something game-changing for society. Just because someone isn't acting for shitty SV style actions (make money on exploiting others), doesn't mean it could be game-changing. And people could start doing once their wages were not stagnating and held down.

> as long as that doesn't mean his vote is more important than that of an entire state.

It was worth that much, and other CEOs it too is worth the same.

I've seen time and again the refrain of "We'll bring good jobs in this area, give us a 10 year tax abatement, and do all these improvements". Long story short, the jobs suck, the company moves in free of taxes, sucks off the teat of the city, and then leaves for somewhere else to start the scam all over.

The deal (power) sounds too good with all the money surrounding the plan. And, it is. But Mr. Mayor gets to take claim of a pile of jobs, new industry, and something about revitalization. By the time the smoke clears, Mr Mayor will be long gone up the political foodchain.

Money and power go hand in hand. Power can be converted through time into money. And Money can be converted into power over time.
It’s surprising that there has been no legal proceeding initiated against Boeing for this. They traded the lives of hundreds of people in exchange for an important safety feature.
> The other 10% of the time, the drivers either can't use a GPS, have a car that has issues, are drunk, tired, or just choose to drive recklessly.

So, kinda like yellow cabs in New York.
I'd agree with that in at least part. Reddit is bad at fostering discussion, one of my major complaints against it.

But its overall role is similar to Usenet: A space for topical discussion on a wide range of topics.

Usenet in the late 1980s was small. 880,000 people with access, about 140,000 actually using (posting) to it, and a core group of probably only a few thousands. John Quarteman's book The Matrix includes Brian Reid's stats from DEC at the time. It grew some by the early 1990s, but the Eternal September still hit with force.

Reddit's user stats are roughly 2,400x that, with 330 million MAU. Scale matters. As does design UI/UX, and a good newsreader >>> Reddit's Web interface.
From the link you provide: it's about steering. They say that if you can spew "exhaust" reflecting / refracting off the sail at 90 degrees to the incident light, you can steer without reducing your sail area.
please let's talk about what's interesting and stay off the metaphysics.

Most would agree there's a point at which moderation goes too far. I can't tell if you're making an appeal as a person, or making a decree as a moderator.

I read the article, and it's absolutely full of metaphysics. From the questions surrounding determinism and free will, to the questions of the moral responsibility of those in dominant positions, to the nature of love and pain and grief.

These metaphysical topics interest me, and apparently they interested the writer, even if they don't interest you.