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>gone are the days of getting an intellectually stimulating and well paying job with IBM/Ford/GE and building your career off it while having a family young,

well for me personally at least that's a great thing. Working for giant company X while living in company town coming home to your labradoodle and your wife with a cooking pot to in hand to watch TV to me is the horror very well portrayed in American Beauty.

Coming out of university I could pick between going abroad, working for a startup, working for a normal business, working from home even, not being looked down for not wanting a family and so on. The liberty I have today is something my parents never had. And sure, with freedom comes disorientation and competition, but to me that's exciting rather than distressing.
Where do you see $170 base price? It's $130 and includes

Ultra - $60
Controller - $60-70?
3 month Pro Subscription - $30
3 month Pro Sub for a Friend - $30
Destiny 2 Complete Edition - ~$100

So even without taking the game in account you're saving 30% of MSRP
>And yet, native Seattleites will still accuse me of ruining "their" city.

When?

Do they come up to you and point fingers and blame you?

Are they your friends or just strangers?

Why do you care what they think at all?
Google did not kill off nest. They killed the "works with nest" API and replaced it with "works with Google Assistant".
> Lonely-death cleaning companies promise to be a good investment in Japan. The culture’s legendary filial piety has gone the way of the samurai; children and grandchildren are often too busy or far away for regular visiting

Me and my partner have to divide our time between visiting four different families since our parents were both single parents. We usually take a summer vacation and a winter vacation, so that means each family really only gets to be visited by us once every two years.

When it comes time to care for them as "old folks" I have no idea what we're going to do. We're basiclly the only people in our family with the financial capacity to support our parents and/or siblings... And I'm not alone in this, there's millions of Americans in the same position. I guess we better start removing systems that support traditional families (e.g. support for single family homes over apartments / co-living) and instead create "syntehtic" families that will be easier to subsidize.
The term “third world” does not mean something like “third rate.” The first world is the Western bloc, under the influence of the USA. The second world is the Eastern bloc, under the influence of the USSR. The third world is everyone else.

I think we should stop using these terms.
We’re not farm animals, peak fertility doesn’t matter.
When people talk about the nuclear family, they're talking about the setup post-industrialization and particularly post-war spurred by the birth of modern civil engineering and the simultaneous spread of the highway system - where the term nuclear family came from.
So, then, since Square’s application is a work, if an AGPL service interacts with it to modify Square’s work, your assertion is that this does not count as a modification introducing AGPL responsibilities.

That’s useful to consider, but it doesn’t reassure me enough to remove the risk altogether. I would, if I were a coder in Square’s position, acknowledge this explanation and then very likely still move to deny AGPL interactions as a whole rather than try to finesse the exact legality as described. I care a lot about licensing but I also want to get work done without fear of AGPL lawsuits.
> Are you high?

Thanks for the aggressive ad-hominem.

> Being not-bad is not the same as being good. Inaction is not the same as positive action. That's literally all I'm saying.

Well of course, I don't think anyone was suggesting that not having kids was all you had to do to become a good person and save the planet.

The person who avoids having kids is still probably doing more to reduce CO2 than the average superficially "eco-conscious" family. Positive action that actually makes a difference is really hard work; avoiding plastic bags, recycling, and driving a Tesla isn't going to do much.
PSA: People happily burbling about what works for them and their partner in their relationship are not judging nor body policing anyone else and should not be treated like they are.

My read on that comment:

"I can't be arsed to go to the gym regularly for my own benefit, but I'm happy to do so to please her and I'm all the healthier for it. win-win!"
Yep, loss of OFX was the impetus for me to finally leave Capital One. They gave me the runaround for a week then admitted they turned off OFX, after trying to blame my software (Moneydance, which I highly recommend).
One workaholic to another: There’s plenty of people in the US, even in places like San Francisco, who have balanced lives and don’t spend their whole time working. Put in their 8 or 10 hours per day at a startup then go off and do fun hobbies like standup comedy, singing in church choirs, or just binging Netflix.

Hell, my girlfriend has zero sidehustle and she does just great for herself.

Working all day erryday is a choice you are making. I make that choice because I didn’t move here to coast and I’m okay, even happy, with the tradeoff.

Food for thought :)
I'm pretty sure Xbox Live had something to do with MS's success.
Isn't this the same as saying, we should never include any software, lest it become outdated someday?
Makes me wonder - is the abundance of choice that makes us lonely? True, deep relationships take time. Your social circle is larger, but you haven't gotten the chance to develop any deep bond because neither you nor they have enough time for each other - because there's so much else to do.
Never mind, I was on the Canadian site for some reason. $130 is more reasonable, but I would still have expected them to sell the hardware at a discount to get more monthly subscribers.

Also, you don't get to own Destiny 2, just play it while you have the pro subscription (i.e. similar to Xbox Live Gold benefits).
These days I'm mostly a couch/casual gamer, and I don't play latency critical games so much anymore. That being said, I've played many PVP matches on Destiny 2 and the experience has been fine.

I'll try some more latency critical games tonight and see how it is, but your assumption that single player and coop games run well is correct. You do get some resolution drops every now and then, but I would imagine this to be the case with any game streaming service.
We do know at this rate earth will be unsuitable for human life in the future and we do almost nothing about. If it were just next year, maybe we would do more about it. But my point is we can't do much since we don't have the technology to go to Mars. Emigrating to Mars is an unsolved problem and it can remain unsolved before we wreck the planet.
I would love to read about those investigations. Do you have any pointers?
First, I'd say monitoring profanity, the word 'gay,' mentions of drugs and sex, etc. does not have bearing on the primary issue at hand: gun violence. If you can outline for me how giving a student body principal information on a student setting up a dating profile serves to solve the issue of mass shootings, I'd appreciate it.

Second, the systems discussed pull information from student's phones and directly monitor communication using school email addresses. The former is an issue for obvious reasons and the latter is an issue because you actually should have a reasonable expectation of private communication through mail.

The fact that it is possible for the school to read your mail is immaterial. It is possible for the government to read your mail. The government does not get to do so, despite the many, many crimes committed through the mail and by people that receive mail.
It's a metaphor. It's not meant to be taken literally.
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As a fellow cis, white, monogamous, straight male...
this post sounds like such a troll that I can't take it seriously. We have every privilege and advantage that one could hope for, especially in tech. Use it. And try to use it for the good of others where possible.

If you really try to be a nice guy, and someone really shits on you for being different from them... laugh it off, knowing that you have advantages that they don't have. Offer them some dollar bills to wipe away the tears with.

You're not being systematically discriminated against. In the very worst case, you're dealing with a few assholes who don't recognize when they're projecting their own issues onto someone else. Being called "evil" is pretty meaningless if you're not actively trying to screw people over.
You can't just dismiss out of hand the power of individual choices (living carbon negative) while simultaneously advocating for a certain type of individual choice (not having children).

The number of people that can inhabit the planet without destroying the environment is highly dependent on individual choices and (maybe even more) government policy. Government policy is determined by voting power, which is in turn determined by the values of people weighted by population. So absolutely it matters if the pro-environment folk advocate removing (to some degree) their own voice from future populations of voters while anti-environment folk do not.

The most devastating act that individual people can do is to not pass on positive, lasting values to the next generation. Because you're not going to stop anti-environment people from passing down negative values by doing so; you'll in fact be amplifying their stance. We must heal the Earth.
You, too, can strike up a conversation with a total stranger at a bus station and it doesn't have to feel weird. It is, however, likely to be short because people are so unused to it in the atomized west that, if you don't carry the whole conversation, they simply won't know what to say.
> And if there's one piece of parenting advice I can offer, it's this... your kids are their own people. Parents only have just so much control. (The flip side is also true; at a certain point, you can't just blame your parents for your own life.)

My kids are still pretty young (<10) but this is something that I increasingly understand/believe the older they get. One of the most surprising things for me as a dad was seeing how different my kids are from each other, even when being raised in exactly the same environment. This has really reinforced to me the idea that people are really their own people, and there is only so much a parent can do to influence what they'll become later. (And yes, this has also given me reason to reflect on the idea that I can't hold my parents responsible for my life choices - definitely cuts both ways!)
This is pretty cool - I've used it as an alternative to building a few web dashboards and admin panels for some of my quick-and-dirty past projects.

The combination of Termiums's saved snippets and a short shell/node scripts let me do a lot of monitoring using simple shell scripts rather than having to run a separate web-server hidden behind some auth. Plus, it's still easier to build an interative shell script than an interactive webpage.
and Sheets.

And Android, Youtube, Doubleclick, etc.
You can still run the original client.

Its a fun game (I personally find the "tower of babel" game modes the most enjoyable), although it is a bit of a wild-west these days without much moderation/administration and a lot of trolling/racism.

I'd recommend it, just ignore the chat.
Yeah, but that's after, right? I'm talking about that she didn't give a sign of prior consent to him, which would affect the moral and legal status of that action.
I don't know where in America you lived, but not everywhere is like that. It is a big and diverse place, after all.
Causality is just human perception and there's nothing special about time. Let me try to explain this in three ways, going from intuitive/trivial to non-intuitive/mind-blowing:

• You can have causality in space rather than time: e.g. a convolutional image filter at pixel 13 might consider pixels 12, 13, 14 (of which the first two are causal and the last is non-causal, if we consider higher numbers as going "forward")

• You can have non-causal filters in time: e.g. audio compression at time 0:30 might consider not only the portion of audio from 0:00 to 0:30, but also the audio from 0:30 to 2:33. (This doesn't seem that remarkable, because the track has already been recorded, so it's not in "real time".)

• Finally, what we usually think of as intuitive causality in "real time" is simply a question of entropy. We think of a person dying because she was shot by a bullet, but we could also replay the movie backwards and think of all the tissues of a human body coming together in such a way as to propel the bullet backwards at a high velocity - in other words the wound causes the bullet to fly! The only reason we don't think of it this way is because the latter explanation decreases rather than increases entropy. As it turns out, physicists can show that entropy is also the exact reason why we remember the past and not the future. (And if we did remember the future and not the past, we would simply think of the future as the past and vice versa, so things wouldn't feel any different.)
You're right - downs syndrome chance does increase with age, but yeah, there's a ton of fertile years left. 25 is not nearing the end of anything.
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Exactly. I moved coasts and sold my gaming PC, bought a Shield in the meantime, and haven't felt the need to shell out for another PC build because the Shield does it all for me.
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XBox has like 35% market share vs %65 of Sony. I wouldn't call that not taking Microsoft seriously in gaming market.
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Curious to know if people still use IRC? Why or why not? What do you use it for? I frankly miss IRC from heavily using it in the 90s.
> it's kinda sad to see a technically visionary set of products reach a dead end (one could maybe even view this as the final commercial death of what Sun built).

I think it's not really the end of the technology, but it is an end to a generally available public commercial offering of it. It sounds like they're still offering services, but only for "single-tenant", which after some careful reading (because I wasn't sure how to interpret that initially), I think means that they'll provide their software and managemest system for private install for large orgs in their private deployments, maybe along with a support/management contract?
While I agree Microsoft is going to be a major and probably the biggest competitor to Stadia, I don't think number or size of data centers makes any difference here. Microsoft has traditionally not been a "cloud" company while as Google has lived it's entire life as one. Google definitely has an advantage here given it's technically their turf. Not saying MS are incapable of delivering cloud workloads but Google definitely is considered the better of the two when it coming to cloud infrastructure and talent. This might be changing now rapidly though.
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Valid point. I was speaking from the context quoted in
SolaceQuantum's comment around public scraping.

It gets murkier with attached devices.

As long as it's made clear to the person attaching the device what data/why is taken (the article doesn't say), it's not entirely unreasonable - you're attaching your device to a foreign network and giving it permission to do what it wants. So it will do what it wants.

But that's a huge qualifier, and I suspect one that wasn't met here.
True. At the cost of hiding the Markdown source.
Opportunity cost seems like the biggest reason. Why devote resources to a project that is merely profitable when they could be working in something that is hugely profitable instead?
Appears to be a personal choice.

My wife and I have two kids, we are both in the best shape of our lives, eat better than before, and our kids are quite healthy - participating in gymnastics, volleyball, and roller derby.
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its definitely fucking weird to randomly strike up a convo with a random at a bus station, fuck are you on?
A caring father can hurt the child's development by making him feel too comfortable. You can show that you care by putting boundaries. I'm not sure the age matters here. You can cut down the internet, or make him pay rent. You can be hard, and at the same time give him options. Show him somehow that the reality could hit him in the face really hard, if he doesn't change.

There always could be depression behind things, so one has to be careful. Maybe arrange therapy, if necessary. For a young guy to be able to open up to his father could be really hard, especially if he's in a pinch, but acting as if you were a bystander isn't the solution.

(It seems the kid has autism according to the father, so it changes things quite a bit.)
Cool! Does it support inter-note linking so that it can act like a kind of personal wiki? That would be a killer feature for me.
I think inability to include images it is actually a feature.

As long as your body is a plain text, you can present it in a very wide variety of ways and styles. Once you allow formatting and inline images, you start moving towards HTML documents, and lose consumer's control over content.
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This might sound like a cop-out answer, but I think the answer is "nobody knows".

So-called "cost-disease" spans infrastructure, education (public & private!) and medicine (again, public and private). All of these things cost 10x what they used to and 10x what they cost in other countries.

There are a few exposés and studies that try to explain the issue but IMHO none of them are satisfactory:

NYT tries to answer the question for NYC (but then why is cost disease a thing in other cities with different contractor/union/transit authority interactions?)[0]

Alex Tabarrok says it's growth in demand and slowdown in productivity growth (but then why is this a US only phenomenon? Does it really "jive" that infrastructure costs 10x what it used to because of "increased demand and slowdown in productivity?" I don't think it passes the smell test) [1]

Slatestar codex says "beats me" [2] and [3]

[0]:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

[1]: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/helland-tabarrok_why-a...

[3]:https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

[4]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/17/highlights-from-the-co...
meant to lure millennials with zero fees and emojis

and then

By killing off Finn, the bank removes some confusion over the product: While the app was designed for the digitally-inclined, users still had access to the bank’s ATMs and tellers, although that access wasn’t heavily promoted.

So I'm curious here, would signing up for a bank account through the Finn app have been classified as a different type of account to get "zero fees"?

Asked perhaps in an illustrative way, if I sign up for an account through Finn and get zero fees, would my girlfriend be able to sign up for a checking account at a physical location the "good old fashioned way" and be able to get the same zero fee checking account type?

As a millennial trying to be more attentive to the minutia of his personal finance and uses his current bank's mobile app quite heavily for everything from transfers to travel notifications (so my card doesn't get flagged if I'm visiting family five states down I-35), I'm missing what the appeal of Finn was supposed to be. They had my attention at zero fees, and immediately lost it at "emojis".

Or is my confusion because I'm one of the "older millennials" and therefore not the target market for this service?
I always appreciated those jobs postings that explicitly mention not working crazy hours. I should keep a journal of such statements. It's an interesting phenomena.
I'm not big on churches, but I'll share a specific anecdotal perspective about a subset of church-related communities: youth groups.

When I grew up, I was an alter boy in our local catholic church. Out of the big 4 youth group options (3 religion related ones + boyscouts) available, it was probably the one with the biggest religious involvement, but that still wasn't much. I was never really that religious and also managed to stay away from most of the church service pretty sucessfully. Anyway, being in that youth group has shaped my social skills a lot, and I've made many great friends through that. I think the same goes for most of the ~15% percent of the local youth between 12-18 that were in one of those youth groups. So I would say for the young people that was at least part of their healthy communities.

Over the last ~7 years all 4 of those groups drastically reduced in member size (1/5 of what they were back then), with nothing comparable taking their place. Whether that in the end turns out to be a good or bad thing, I don't know.
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I don't see that any different from my current PS4 setup.

Except I had to pay for the console $400, pay for PS Plus to play online $60/yr, and pay for games that I want to play $60/game.

But with PS4 I'm locked in to playing on my 1 TV at home or a small catalog of games I have very little interest in with PS Now.

With Stadia, if I can play the latest AAA games anywhere for $10/mo and the experience is rock solid 99% of the time, I'll be all over this.
I would disagree with this dismissal.

Church attendance is correlated with higher self esteem and better mental health. And the studies I have seen show decreases in suicide and drug use with religion (Though I suppose you can find a study to “prove” anything).

In my experience, church is very much correlated with social health and can help provide the missing elements in a persons life when dealing with the decline of the family. There is a a reason people always talk about their “church family”.
:'(

The older I get, the more certain I am that people come first. No one sits around in old age wishing they had spent longer hours at the office.
really cool thanks. the combination of uBO and NanoDefender is absolutely awesoome but I didn't have this Ultralist as part of my setup yet.
I think it's worth trying it out before saying 20-30 ms is jarring
> Pure nothingness has no potential for creation.

I disagree, pure nothingness has the largest potential for creation because by virtue of not being there (nor anywhere) it doesn't prevent anything at all from creating itself.

if this sounds strange is because the concept of nothingness is strange.

rather than asking why is there nothing rather than something, I marvel at how we can conceptualize 'nothingness' in such a way that we can even think of these kinds of questions
Off and on I've used it for technical discussions, questions, etc, around various open source projects. I've shut down all my IRC servers. Most folks moved to Discord or Slack.
Sure but we got to survive till we could clear carbon dioxide