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Yeah, it's a shame tech entrepreneurs are so greedy. In most other fields $100 million in sales would (potentially) be a great business.

Same sentiment with respect to getting acquired. Having 4 or 5 giant companies control everything is terrible for the long term health of the industry.
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Why because of shutdowns? That's fair but most of us up here at this salary level can weather a month or two without pay so long as it finally arrives. I'd be more worried about working for a fascist, even indirectly.
Try not to get bogged down into syntax issues. If this is homework/you are just starting out, you have two challenges:

* Identifying an algorithm to solve the problem

* Expressing the algorithm you've identified

Work out your algorithm in pseudocode/flowcharts/in your head.

Once you've clearly figured out what program you are trying to write, re-evaulate. Maybe you can slowly change your program piece-by-piece over to your intended strategy, or maybe a rewrite should be easy.

I guess what I'm saying is this: figure out what problem you have that is blocking you. It will be a lot easier to move past it once you know which part(s) of the task you are finding challenging.
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Your comment covers the gamut of ethical theories. A 'code of ethics' is going to be some combination of deontology and virtue ethics and will typically prohibit cases like this post describes.

> In many ways what they did was unethical but the result was probably positive overall.

And that kind of thinking is the other, newer branch of ethics: consequentialism/utilitarianism.

My conclusion is that deontology and virtue ethics are necessary heuristics as actually calculating or estimating the consequences of any action are almost always effectively impossible, but, ultimately, what we care about are exactly those consequences, so we're never able to adequately 'cover' morality without, at least sometimes, explicitly considering them.
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Academia is about ego, not being correct.

If you are getting a PhD, you prove what your professor tells you.

It seems every time I read a published study, the data is unusable, but they claim an extremely specific outcome.

My curiosity, why does the peer review process let this go?
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> That shouldn't be a problem as the target market is the group of people who are making a conscious choice to dodge the ad platform.

Personally, Facebook and such has pretty much poisoned the whole idea of "social media" entirely. My default position these days is that if it's "social media", then I can't trust it.

I don't know how many people share my attitude. It might not be enough to matter.
So then why are Facebook/Youtube getting criticized for not censoring the New Zealand shooter broadcast fast enough?
> It is amazing how much infrastructure and technology is in place for a process that is proving incompatible with reality (both in terms of capability of the tech, and economics of the commodities).

Is it incompatible? The article makes it sounds like a clear win for the city, and a sometimes-win for the plant:

All of this may mean that at any given moment, recycling can be anything from highly profitable to a struggle to cover costs. If we were to shut these facilities down during periods where they weren't profitable, however, we'd be wasting infrastructure and expertise we'd want when costs shift in the other direction.

The city does pay a tipping fee to get rid of the materials, but it's less than what it would pay to landfill them—plus it avoids the cost of transporting everything to the landfill.

The city even has a chance to get some of its tipping fee back. When recycled materials are sufficiently valuable, Sims shares a percentage of the profits back with the government. During periods where these materials are priced low, the company gets to keep any profits it can eke out.

The net result is that the city can benefit when recycled materials are valuable. And when raw material prices are low, it's still profitable to keep the facility operating.
> > Today's space telescopes provide no direct view of anything

> I have no idea what that means. They literally observe the sky...

Seriously! At this point they're just spitballing.
I’d say 8 miles a day has a lot to do with it.
"Have people formulated specific breakdowns, and goon looking?"

They have. Considerable effort has been expended trying to detect changes in various constants related to light, including speed but also some other things. It is expected that if constants were changing, spectra would change as well. So far as I know, all those results have been negative, but it's not for lack of trying. Similar arguments can be deployed for the nuclear forces as well w.r.t. spectrum, rates of fusion, various things you'd be able to observe in certain types of supernovae, etc.

One of the things I don't like about this genre of articles is that it's typically quite mistaken, if not outright disingenuous, about the current state of cosmology. From what I could see, the idea that cosmologists are all stodgy old fogies brought up in a paradigm of the Big Bang and who won't entertain any other thoughts is diametrically opposed to the truth. To my eyes, the field is a bubbling cauldron of various exotic ideas and attempts to resolve all these issues. There's no lack of theories in cosmology and attempts to resolve these issues, including many quite radical ones (the holographic principle, changing constants over time, heck even "Dark Energy" is quite radical in many ways even if it is also the accepted theory at the moment).

What we lack are theories that explain all the observations. Dark matter is favored not because it's the only idea that anyone has come up with, but because it's still the one that best fits the facts. (As PBS Space Time pointed out last week, ironically, the galaxies recently discovered to not contain dark matter are themselves quite strong evidence dark matter must exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t0jaE--l0Y , because almost all other theories to explain galactic rotations are based on characteristics that can not vary by galaxy like matter distributions can. "MOND", for instance, is not "MOND, except in these two galaxies".)

If you can solve all these problems, as near as I can tell, you'll be celebrated, not shut down by the old fogerati. But be prepared for your theory to need to cover a lot of existing observations; we're centuries past "Well, what if gravity just worked differently?" or "What if the constants aren't constant?" You're going to need a great deal more detail than that.
Mall food courts are pretty awful in my experience. We’re starting to get upscale food courts that don’t like to call themselves food courts. But the prices, while better than sit down dining, aren’t cheap. The food is much better though. Here’s an example in Raleigh:

http://www.morganfoodhall.com/

(“Morgan Street Food Hall is a new lifestyle dining concept; not to be confused with a food court.” Ugh I almost didn’t visit the place since the web site is so fucking pretentious.)

I first visited one of these in Chicago.

My preference is a city park surrounded by food trucks. But these aren’t reliable, only work when the weather is good, etc.
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> IE5.5 was the first browser you could reliably write "rich" web UIs in

My point is that in the IE6 era (and previously), doing so was categorically hard -- I didn't say impossible. Also, that changed with FF 3.5, IE8, Chrome, etc.

Admittedly, IE6 and FF 1.5 were the first browsers I had to develop apps for from scratch. (And FF was already far more robust.)
Honesty and ethics - there is a reason "trying to sell you something" is a synonym for "trying to scam you".

If they are incentivized by it then they gain by selling it to you regardless of utility - thus anyone in that situation is judged as inherently untrustworthy.
They are already relying heavily on local police force to help them sell.

Now this.
> Between YouTube, Google Docs, and several other Google properties posting IE6 banners, Google had given permission to every other site on the web to add their own.

This was one of the happiest days off my web development career when I could finally tell clients to drop IE6 support because "even Google is doing it."

Amazing to hear how the tail wagged the dog to achieve this :)
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Exactly this, agile is all about empowering devs, trusting them and allowing them to work.

Sprints are about enforcing feedback from the customer into the loop. If you have a half decent customer they should be happy with any length sprint and releases that make sense.
I've come to expect that code quality has a strong link to success but in sometimes its inversely proportional. What I mean, is that at the Seed/Series A timeframe, I doubt you will see a strong performing company, with a codebase with high quality. I also the odds are against seeing a tech company with billions in revenue (not worth) have a really poor codebase. I can think of plenty of examples where the desire to 'do it right', has cost a company their marketshare.

As much as Netscape vs Microsoft hurt Netscape, the time it took to do NS7 and the quality it shipped with, pushed them back 5-6 years.
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My impression was that a normal user wouldn't know not to take the offer, but fair point.
It is 2019 and Chinese dotcoms still design for IE6. Reason? XP is still the "default OS" with megatons of hardware for things like POS terminals, fapiao printers, biometric systems, passport/rfid scanners not shipping with drivers for anything other than XP.
Perhaps Extreme Go Horse has some wisdom behind it after all
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IE7 had tabs.
The math seems to be shaking the proximal solution (green tech), and ignoring the path to get there. Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, and green techs are disadvantaged because not only are they competing against options whose true costs are externalized, but there are trillions of dollars invested in the unsustainable status quo. We need not just for the right technologies to exist, but for policies that will allow them to win. And that requires people (even non-engineers) to care.
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Sometimes that is not enough:

In this rocket malfunction, a part was installed upside down. It had arrows indicating the direction and only fit in its place in one orientation. Still, on finding that it didn't immediately fit a technician forced it in:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/proton_glonass49.html#culprit

By July 13, investigators simulated the improper installation of the DUS angular velocity sensors on the actual hardware. As it turned out, it would be very difficult to do but not impossible. To achieve that personnel would need to use procedures and instruments not certified either by the design documentation or the installation instructions. As a result, the plate holding the sensors sustained damage. Yet, when the hardware recovered from the accident was delivered to GKNPTs Khrunichev, it was discovered that the nature of the damage to the plate had almost exactly matched the simulated version.
I eat at the IKEA canteen all the time. It's a treasure.
"The Tsimane get 72% of their energy from carbohydrates.

The fact that they have the best indicators of cardiovascular health ever reported is the exact opposite to many recent suggestions that carbohydrates are unhealthy."

Refined carbs ARE unhealthy and it's a bit disheartening that they didn't make that distinction in the article.
Good point. Also keep in mind the 5.5% of livestock emissions simply replaced the emissions by hundreds of millions of bison/buffalo, elk, deer, etc that we wiped out. So the livestock contribution is pretty much zero if you offset it with the loss of bison/buffalo, etc emissions.

And we have been in a global warming trend for thousands of years. Most of north america ( including NYC ) was under a sheet of ice, in some places sheet of ice 2 miles high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

It's disappointing to me that the nytimes would use climate change as a tool to push a highly environmentally and biologically destructive lifestyle like veganism. I wonder how many of the authors of the article has even farmed a day in their lives.

And the article reeks of ideology rather than news. Where is the news in the article? It's just pushing vegan propaganda which harms more young people everyday than nonsense like anti-vax movement. Vegans have starved their babies to death thinking that veganism is a healthy human diet. But I doubt they'd get as much backlash as the netflix '13 steps' producers did. The most environmentally and biologically friendly human diet is the omnivore diet. It has been since humans began and it will be while humans exist.

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is a well established idea. I wish journalists would simply report news rather than pushing destructive ideologies, especially since they haven't a clue what they are talking about most of the time. They aren't an expert in almost anything they write about. So why not stick to reporting? Why give "advice"?
Just release a robot teddybear that threatens you if you try and leave the house already.
The entire article was about the monks’ practices of meditation. Wherever you are oneness with God, you can substitute meditation. In fact, the physical, structural, and nutritional habits were precisely in service to this meditation. You need to eat well and have a healthy body to get the most from meditation.
I find Western criticism of Japan's legal system hilarious.

> Japanese prosecutors subject suspects to up to eight hours of daily questioning while they are detained in a bid to obtain a confession, shutting off access to their family and barring them from obtaining legal assistance during the questioning. And according to the popular narrative, it’s all done capriciously, with the nefarious machinations of the state lurking behind.

This is true in almost every western country except the US. England, Canada, Australia etc you have no right to a lawyer during questioning. Police will destroy and cover up evidence in attempt to frame people on a regular basis, and basically join the prosecution from day 1 instead of investigating crime. They seek certain sorts of convictions to please their politics masters. They much rather a rape conviction than a false accusation conviction for example. They will prosecute people against the weight of evidence, where in fact the only evidence is exculpatory.

Consider the case of Mark Pearson. Falsely accused of a rape after bumping into a woman in a subway station. Video evidence proved it wasn't possible, so police slowed down the footage to make it appear it did happen. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/cps-slowed-down-...

Now if this same thing happened in Japan, if they saw the video footage that basically proved it was a false accusation, do you think they would have acted as capriciously as UK police, or maybe charged the woman instead?

The narcissism of the Western political/legal class knows no bounds.
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This is an entirely inflammatory and baseless article.

Yes, you should care a bit about local crime. If someone in your neighborhood is stealing hubcabs, maybe it's a good idea to park in the garage. Likewise, if there's a spat of minor vehicle burglaries, it's probably wise to make sure your vehicle is locked.

Yeah, is some idiot going to theorize that the salesman who ignored their no soliciting sign a secret islamist infiltrator who is casing their house? Probably. That doesn't undo the value of the other things because silly people exist.

On the other hand, when there are bad things happening in your neighborhood like serious break-ins or joggers keep getting kidnapped, then you know, harass your local police department to step up patrols and act accordingly.

Crime as a whole lowering doesn't mean crime in your neighborhood isn't happening. Yes the world is getting more peaceful as a whole, but yes, you can still be mugged and killed.
I think that analytics on small websites does not make sense anymore! A lot of people have adblockers these days and those often block Google Analytics for privacy reasons and also just for speed/less work.

Also with bots that execute javascript with Electron, it is nearly impossible to have correct metrics coming from anonymous users.

A better metric would be to measure newsletter signups, third-party client-side analytics is dead.
A neighbor recently got a Ring out of some security concerns (partner got deployed for a year and they have two young kids). However, I've think it's made things worse in some ways:

- Every potential interaction is viewed with suspicion

- Everybody who walks up to the door prompts an interruption wherever you are (on your smartphone)

The local neighborhood sharing aspects of Ring strongly remind me of NextDoor, whose suspicion raising and general uselessness can pretty much be summed up in this tweet:

https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/112232088963729817...
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