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Art is not complicated at all. Art marketers and pseudo-artists like to make it complicated to keep the "contemporary art" scam alive and profitable.

That's because real art, like anything (engineering, piano, sports) takes years and years of hard work to perfect the skill which gives the ability to translate your ideas into something beautiful and self-explanatory (when you don't need to be expert to "understand the meaning" as it is with masters like Michelangelo).

A great example is when Henry Moore saw Michelangelo and started to cry and confessed the only reason he makes such statues is because he knows "he will never be able to create anything as beautiful as that"

Perhaps he would if instead he worked on things that are hard.

It's hilarious how modern art lives on creating documentaries, popularizing an "artist" then selling art for investment while fooling people by using shaming tactics like "you just don't understand art" or "that was not the point artist was trying to make"

If the artist has to explain her work in words he should have chosen literature as a form of expression for clearly she failed using her current means to do so.
Info from the website:

The C64 is back, this time full-sized with a working keyboard for the dedicated retro home-computer fan.

Featuring three switchable modes – C64, VIC 20, and Games Carousel.

Connect to any modern TV via HDMI for crisp 720p HD visuals, at 60 Hz or 50 Hz.

An updated joystick, now featuring micro switches, companions the hardware making the included games even more fun than ever.

The Games Carousel has 64 pre-installed games including classics such as California Games, Paradroid and Boulder Dash, with new additions like Attack of the Mutant Camels, Hover Bovver, Iridis Alpha, and Gridrunner.

Topped off with the recently released shoot ’em up Galencia and text adventure Planet of Death to let you relive the glory days of true keyboard gaming!
Plus, THEC64® allows you to load and save your own files and games via USB stick (including multi-disk titles) and program in C64 or VIC 20 BASIC.
Why not try n26?
Business support has pricing that drops as a percentage as your spend goes up, like Enterprise, but does not allow you aggregate across accounts like enterprise.

It's only 10% for the first $10K. 7% for the portion up to $80K, 5% for the portion up to $250K, and 3% beyond that. (Enterprise has the same kind of %age ranges but cutoffs of $150K/$500K/$1M and the bottom range doesn't really matter because the hard minimum is $15K/mo.)
Of course with optimization the question is always is it worth it. Make Word 1000% faster and it won't make a difference to me as most of the time word is waiting for me to press the next key. Of course this is a reflection of me: I don't use Word much and when I do I'm not using even 2% of what it can do. I'm sure Microsoft knows of areas that if they could improve it would make a difference to power users.
Do you mean 20+ million dead and total destruction of several countries?

Saying we “adjusted” after that is disingenuous to say the least.
I'm no chemist but the stuff doesn't look too complicated. And noting the stuff used to cost far less ...[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylenetetramine
What is the difference between dimensionality and degrees of freedom? The standard definition of degrees of freedom is "number of variables that make up the state of the system" and the definition of the dimensionality of the state vector is...
We currently use Bitbucket (do not recommend) and we're evaluating GitLab.

First impression is that it's a great package. The only downside for us is that we have a lot of legacy baggage, mostly rather opinionated build tools set up the way we liked it. Getting that to work with GitLab, which itself has a very opinionated view of the CI/CD pipeline is a bit of effort. But for a greenfield project I would go with GitLab in a second!

GitLab is a "batteries included" kind of tool. They've put together a lot of excellent stuff and integrated different tools very well together. For example, we need to perform security scans on our code and artifacts and GitLab offers that with minimal effort and awesome integrations into your pull request (which they call merge requests) mechanism.

Some may not like their approach, especially if they already have something that doesn't quite fit. But if you're starting from scratch, you really should give them a chance. They really know what they're doing ;-)
Monzo is very heavily used in physical stores in the UK. Paytm doesn't have enough usage in the physical world apart from transferring money to friends. RBI releases bank usage every few month, here is a link to see statistics https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/ATMView.aspx. Monzo is the standard bank account of a lot of millennials.

I could see something like Monzo making it big in India, being an Indian living in the UK.
>So he made a rational decision: He’d go uninsured, save the cost of the premium, and just pay for his meds out of pocket, while racking up work experience that could serve as a springboard to a better position with health insurance.

He did not make a rational decision. This is the most upsetting part. I looked. You can buy an insurance plan in Minnesota with a $750 deductable $6000 out of pocket max for $350 per month.

It is not possible with that plan and a few more like it to spend more than 1000 per month. If you are planning to spend that much anyway it is irrational to pick anything else.

What seems to have happened is he was using expensive autoinjector pens while on good insurance and then didn't adapt when he lost it and didn't get the right advice for purchasing his own insurance or the right education to be able to pick an appropriate plan.
5D has been a term of art for years, and was not made up by this article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
Are people actually forgetting to read the articles but totally want to, or do they not really care as much and generally get too much "omg you need to read this" links? Depending on who sent me a link, I'd tell them honestly that I don't care about their pet issue/celebrities/tomorrow's end of the world/superhero movies/whatever or I'd say "oh I totally forgot to read that piece about that thing now that you mention it".

If you'll offer an extra service for me that gives me a very short summary in case I get asked, two non-committal but smart sounding points and a good way to change the topic to something else ... that might be something!
They have a reasonable trial on their site. I'd recommend taking it for a spin.
I believe "cronyism" here refers to government interference on behalf of certain companies or industries, driven by lobbying etc. It may be a common failure mode for capitalism, but it's hardly "what makes the market free".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism
Do you have JavaScript disabled or something similar that would keep lazy loading if the full res images from working?
Government spending is wasteful enough as is, and you want more of it? No wonder the US is going down the toilet!

Investing in startups (or basic science) is bordering on insanity because before you do it, you know you'll waste 90% of your money. Yet the government somehow must be involved in that. Investing other people's (taxpayer's) money knowing that you're unlikely to earn it back is a form of fraud (and of course vote buying).
GitLab has the ability to require merge requests
These articles pop up every few years, and it always makes me shake my head. Such storage solves no market need. Technology hardly lasts five years let alone fifty years let alone five billion years. Virtually nobody is worried about being able to read their media 500 years out.

And even if that was a reason to pursue a technology, the actual storage capacity is meaningless on its own. 360TB of spinning disks isn't very expensive to buy, rack, or run. And you can read and write to them at a decent clip. Managing failures is fairly predictable. What benefit does a magical glass (or, in previous incarnations, quartz or other crystal) disk have? Optical media isn't known for its amazing random access speeds. Write-once media has very limited use and is almost never fast to write to.

So who's buying this? Who has data that needs to last that long, or needs to store lots of permanently immutable data that's read back sequentially? I honestly can't think of a market for this. The article says "museums" but I don't know of any museums that would prefer glass disks for their backups over an S3 bucket. This is "on prem backup" taken to a comical extreme.

I can see the academic value of exploring the technology, but this space has been exhausted many times over. I remember seeing similar articles in Technology Review and Scientific American about identical developments twenty years ago. It's just not a good idea.
The 13.8Gy claim is made by estimating, calculating and then confirming by experiment how quickly wear and tear works (the primary mechanism is nanograting, and the primary contributing physical quantity is temperature). It then specifically grabs 13.8Gy as an example data point because that's the age of the Universe, but they could've picked any other point on a time/temperature scale, like, say, "room temperature".

In what sense is this "not scientific"?
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I wrote an article on this a while back https://medium.com/@danielwhyte/wireframes-are-a-non-inclusi...
I'm guessing it was because people are more scared of taking unknown drugs than stopping taking their known-good drugs.

IMO, we've gotten to a point in our society where there are risks we used to take routinely that we no longer think are acceptable, even when the alternative is complete failure. Prescribed medicine and other healthcare-related areas are some of those things.
From my experience its going to be a more than a week, but its possible less than 8, I agree. There is some backend stuff thats a bit more complex than avg chat app, but nothing crazy. I would rather overestimate the time then tell someone it is going to be simple.
Also both iOS and Android versions would have to be released to really test it (how it works makes a web version on mobile not possible).

If you know a person/people with skills who might be interested, pls let me know, thanks!
exactly: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck
I don't know, look back two thousand years and you see plenty of it. More like it's a symptom of humanity. Animals are stupid machines, humans aren't nearly as far away from them as we'd think ourselves.
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It's bad, but it's not all that bad. Most jobs, such as mine, provide health insurance that makes costs at least manageable, if not reasonable. I live a happy and comfortable life, despite the $200 monthly tithe to the CEOs of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

And there is progress being made. The ACA passed under Obama was a very significant step forward, and public perception is shifting in favor of more government involvement in healthcare[1]. As with most things, the problem is money in politics and media. Republicans resist any attempt to slow the accumulation of money into the hands of the ultra-wealthy, and also own the most popular news channels, so they've convinced a significant chunk of the population that making the wealthy wealthier will somehow help them. A good chunk of Democrats are also paid to oppose changes to the current healthcare regime. But there's a growing number of Democrats actively campaigning for single-payer and other sane systems, and support among voters for single-payer is also growing[2].

There's hope. The situation isn't so bad that violence is the answer, yet.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/03/most-contin...

[2] https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/339247-poll-support-gr...
I'm wondering if you could power two USB 3.0 2.5" HDD through the Raspberry Pi 4 without requiring external power supplies for them now.

Would be nice to build a NAS with as few cables as possible.
How do you invest in them? Seems like an good bet.
I had a workflow similar to this. I took all notes by hand (pretty sure laptop wasn't a viable option in 1993, anyway) and then typed them out later. During the course of studying, I'd condense things to a single sheet whenever possible. It worked very, very well.
Why give the opportunity to the coal plants but not everyone else? What you are proposing is again a favouribly treatment of coal plants, and we desperately need to make life difficult for them.

We could, however, introduce a general carbon emission tariff without exception but ramp it up instead of introducing it fully at once.
I wouldn't trust N26 (or any of these other move fast and break things banking apps), they have shown that they have zero clues about securing their infrastructure: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take_my_money
STM32s have great Rust support[0] if that matters to you. Personally I strongly prefer the embedded_hal[1] and RTFM[2] APIs over the Arduino ones, although the peripheral coverage is a fair bit weaker. Their DISCOVERY kits[3] (preassembled boards that are ready to program, just like Arduinos) are ~$20, and also double as programmers if you eventually end up designing your own boards.

[0]: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/discovery/index.html

[1]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/embedded-hal

[2]: https://github.com/japaric/cortex-m-rtfm

[3]: Such as https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32f3discovery.html
These are pretty technical articles, but absolutely amazing in terms of content. I remember reading them nearly 20 years ago when I first got into using synths.
That's nice. I wish US banks would do something like that, so we don't have to rely on 3rd party apps. But, they couldn't even roll out chip & PIN properly.
Also of note is that SpaceX was able to catch one of the Falcon Heavy's fairings on a boat[0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/25/spacex-records-another-fir...
The 13.8Gy claim is made by estimating, calculating and then confirming by experiment how quickly wear and tear works (the primary mechanism is nanograting, and the primary contributing physical quantity is temperature). It then specifically grabs 13.8Gy as an example data point because that's the age of the Universe, but they could've picked any other point on a time/temperature scale, like, say, "room temperature".

Are you suggesting they pulled this out of their backside? The research very much supports that number.
> What about "the internet"? Which parts of that will still work when there's a power outage? Not your home Wifi, presumably. Mobile data? For how long?

The true-but-unhelpful answer is "depends on your ISP and what contract you have with them". A typical home user's "last mile" is almost certainly less reliable than POTS, agreed. But if you make it onto the backbone the internet is better at routing around disruption than the circuit-oriented phone system. So I wouldn't want to count on the phone system always being more reliable.
Yes, please make it for Firefox too :)
this only applies in US
You are way overcomplicating it. People are not talking about comparing the discounted price with some fictional “intrinsic utility” price and your comments about the utility of the item are tone deaf and missing the point.

Advertising that you are selling something at a discount is information that your price might be lower than a competitor. Nobody likes getting a discount at store A then seeing the same item for less at store B, and as a result, people don’t care much about discounts in an absolute sense. Only that the information announcement of the discount is advertising price competition with other sellers or substitutes.

When a seller lies about the original price to claim a discount, they are banking on consumers just “believing the lie” that the fake, pre-discount price was a competitive price compared with competitors or substitutes.

People choose to believe it’s a malicious & morally wrong action for the seller to do that, to intentionally play against consumers’ penchant to seek the lowest price among various alternatives by creating a discount from an inflated reference price that is intentionally not competitive with other sellers, and to hope that it fools some consumers who trust the seller instead of doing the legwork to compare prices & learn if the pre-discount price was in line with competitors.

People just choose to believe a seller that chooses to do this is shitty and acting antagonistically to manipulate buyers. They expect sellers to be honest about sources of price competition.

A discount should be with regard to a prevailing market aggregated price, or some close & sincere approximation from sampling the prices at competitors or prices of substitutes. If the discount is in regard to some other way of setting the pre-discount price, then it’s intentionally manipulating people to play on the cognitive flaw that they will nonetheless believe the discount is in regard to some notion of a “fair market value” price level, especially in situations driven by short-term cognition.
If you look at the Usenix paper on the FORESHADOW attack, they did break attestation as well by applying their attack to the quoting enclave to extract attestation keys.
Dublin based here also. Agreed on Revolut, they have the best app in my opinion but I just recently signed up to n26 as they are a more solid company.
You can't use the amateur bands for commercial purposes though.
Im really into music gear and this is rad! My brother makes his own pedals and I can design the circuits.
I have the original Pi. With it, I started a collection of various organic and inorganic particulates. The collection site is a shelf in the corner of my basement.
Officially, the USPS was privatized in the 1970s, except they still need Congressional approval to raise postage rates, close offices, change business hours, or do just about anything you would expect a private company to be able to do. And I don’t believe it’s possible to buy USPS stock.

Also, they continue to have their own police force, the private mails act to protect their monopoly in handling letters, a federal requirement to provide service to every address in the country no matter how inconvenient, and laws that make tampering with the mail a federal offense. I think the big difference is that the Postmaster General is no longer a Cabinet member. But the post office makes a big deal about the fact that they’re legally a private corporation.
In areas the mafia doesn't exist (an analogy the title makes by calling it a racket), the cost of paying the mafia is $0. So it might be £30/vial no mafia fee in the U.K., and the same + $10,000 mafia fee in America.

However, doesn't some of that mafia fee go toward R&D? (Developing new drugs)? Why isn't the price to the NHS slightly higher, also in part to fund research?
It's hard to imagine $10,000 just gets pocketed by Don Carleone, without any of it going back to the laboratory.

Is the analogy really sound?
> People seem to think that the defective US healthcare system is an indictment on free-market capitalism. But there's nothing free-market at all about our system. What it's really an indictment on is cronyism, corruption, and rent-seeking.

That might be because those corrupt rent-seeking cronies have been selling their behavior as "free-market capitalism" for decades.

I agree with you that corruption is the real problem with the US healthcare system, but I'm not sure I agree that an unregulated free market is the best solution. It seems to me that it would work very well for regulating the prices of popular treatments and procedures (insulin, vision correction etc.) but it seems to me there would be no incentive to do the same for rare or difficult conditions.

For instance, treating some types Leukemia require teams of dozens of caregivers over months-long hospital stays. It seems to me that there's no way a market would make that affordable to the average person, and it seems inevitable you would end up with a two-tiered healthcare system.

> Single-payer has pretty terrible incentives too, but probably not even as bad as the current system.

What's so terrible about single-payer? It seems like it's pretty effective at bringing costs down where it's implemented.
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Yes I did. It's the part where I clearly state it's possible that a router that offline or rebooted came up with a stale or incorrect config. This actually happens occasionally. I've been on both ends of it. Clearly Verizon has inbound prefix filtering in place as this is not some common occurrence for AS 701.

Verizon was in contact with people yesterday. I have spoken to two people from two other carriers who were in touch with them. And you are just parroting the idea that because Cloudflare didn't get a response that Verizon wasn't responding to anyone period. And that's just not true. The fact that you think there's some red phone that just anyone can call the NOC and magically speak to someone during a major outage shows you have no practical experience with thes things you are commenting on and criticizing.
Even an imagined sound has a frequency (and probably?) a phase.

It might be possible to generate a tone at the same frequency and shift the phase until it's 180 degrees out of phase with the imagined sound. Perhaps the brain would do the math and cancel the imagined sound?

This can't really be automated since there's no way to measure the imagined sound, but it might be possible to make a little box with knobs - pitch, phase, and volume - that would all one to tune a cancellation frequency.
Somebody should take another look at those moon glass beads.
> Most of us do startups to do something more than to schmooze, threaten and ultimately bilk customers paying with other peoples money.

Do you know Theranos ? That's the definition itself of bullshit and it was a "startup".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

Bullshit comes from 5000+ employees to companies with 5 dudes. Scale does not change anything.

Business culture, profit as only value and the culture of fake it until you do it are the source of the problem.

And against that their is not magic solution, excepted trust a lot less the ones that speak and trust a lot more the one that do. In the good old Nerd world, we named that Show me the code
As a chemist you won't even bother to do the synthesis. You just order it from Sigma-Aldrich. Currently it cost about 300$ for 100g.
> I didn't say this (because I thought it was obvious) but installing fences is not meant to make people happier.

That's not what the post you replied to was saying. The worry is that being "fenced in" would actively make people less happy.
The point of this tech is precisely to overcome the limitations of previous ones.

> What if <any storage> gets <X mechanical damage>?

It's more like "How much X damage can storage Y tolerate before losing Z amount of data?" You evaluate the different tech then you pick the best option.

Maybe some of this could be mitigated with logical techniques (e.g. make data redunant over 2 or 3 different parts of the disc, sacrificing capacity for durability), but it really depends on whether the process allows for this or completely borks out as soon as a scratch happens. They don't say anything about that and I think it's a pretty important aspect of any long-term storage solution.
Those pens allow for accurate dispensing.
Learning piano is fairly valuable in terms of understanding/writing music, but not critical.

If you're interested in making music with synths, you could probably get away with a pad controller. You lose some keys, but you usually get a lot of control buttons. A 16 button pad controller can do a lot when configured with 4 banks of sounds, with root/3/5/7 of each. Most controllers have octave up/down buttons, so 4 pitches of a given sound is actually very versatile.
I imagine they’re referring to the complete retooling of the US economy for war production.
Last release 2018.