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Investors and board members would be way more wary of how the company is run if Google decided to do drastic things outside the scope of their core business (like Google Amusement Parks) for superfluous reasons, which would further make them lose money is the stock sinks.

At Google’s size they can invest a lot in R&D and product iterations, but because they are so big the innovation seems way less drastic relative to their size. Put it this way, if I put a new motor, deck, and paint on a small boat, it would seem like I did a lot, whereas if a giant cruise ship did the same thing, it wouldn’t really carry the same impact to outside viewers.
The ER is more like insurance. In this case she was fine and got better more or less on her own but what if she deteriorated quickly? The ER would have the appropriate skill and equipment in-house to save her, whether if she was at home it might’ve been too late to make it to the ER when things actually became critical.
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Presumably because making that product available in your region is not an NPV positive investment.
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This adds to my recent thought stream that it ought to be charge 2 people a different price for the same thing (basket of things) ...

Why is it that someone who is a new customer for service X gets a sweetheart deal but those of us who have faithfully paid for months/years are charged a premium?

Why is it that 2 people in a hospital pay entirely different prices for the exact same thing?

on and on the insanity goes.

I am, of course, not talking about packages/bundles etc. Yes it makes sense that someone who buys 10 could get a better price than someone who buys 1.
> your neighborhood doctor is likely a scam artist.

I don't blame a Dr for trying to charge 7x the actual value of their time if 6/7 people don't pay them at all (the case in ERs). They're employing the same practice as insurance companies. But when a Dr does it he's a scam artist?
In the article, wide open pastures with no trees were "associated with higher odds of psychological distress." Don't our distant (monkey) cousins live in and amongst trees, usually?

Open pastures with no tree cover just mean easy pickings for an incoming predator, so maybe that hints at why it causes us "distress."
Better if the floppy, protractor, and tape were part of a MacGyvered (MacGrubered?) solution to some jam out in the wilderness.
There are some other consensus domains that have trouble when members disappear or arrive permanently, and this has kinda been kicking around my head for a while:

Should it not be the case that one of the responsibilities of the quorum is to vote new members in or out? I mean, as a first-class feature of the system.

The main problem I see is that in most consensus systems, any member can be nominated as leader. But if the member was inducted during a partition event - which one could do if the partition were long duration - then nominations for new leaders will go out. What happens if the new member gets elected? How do the partitioned machines find that leader when they return?

So the process of joining the quorum would have to be incremental. Because demanding a unanimous vote to add a machine means you can never replace a dead one (except by impersonating it)
Per the article, 14h is actually what’s being spoken about: “There are different ways to go about it, but I advise patients to omit either dinner or breakfast, so that they don’t ingest any food for at least 14 hours at a stretch.” This should probably more specifically described as Time Restricted Eating/Feeding, but IF is sort of used as a catch all for this and other eating patterns, so what can you do.

Sadly, due to snacking and the misconception that they should eat as soon as they get up, I suspect that most Americans probably have an eating window that spans 14-16h instead of 8-10h (which has been RCT’d to show a significant difference in hunger and ad libitum food consumption).
I have mixed feelings about this.

As society, we seem to be ok with millennials fresh out of college making hundreds of thousands of $$$ a year for a bunch Javascript that allows people to share pictures of their butt with their friends BUT we are not ok with doctors who literally - save lives - getting paid according to their responsibilities?

Same goes with football/basketball/etc.. players whose sole purpose in life and responsibilities are to throw a ball somewhere and for that, they are covered in gold!

I think doctors should be paid a lot of money and on the other hand, many other professionals should be paid way less compared to what they make now!

That said, this proves, yet another time, how unfair and inefficient this whole health insurance system is.

Health care should be a universal right and should be provided as a public service at a minimum cost for single contributors. People have the right to getting sick and receive the best possible care without going bankrupt or having to sell their houses for it.

It is that simple.

On this, the EU model wins hands down compared to the US one. And it's time
for Americans to open their eyes and realize how unfairly they have been treated in this regard for their entire lives.
So what’s the harm if we create a swarm of mutant mosquitoes that kill off the rest over time, crashing the population permanently?

What predators will be harmed and which others will fill up the new niche?
You are right, but I interpreted it as a one off manual task. I've used miniconda in that way.
Yes most companies do that on the books, including movie productions, Amazon, etc. It’s not because their business model still doesn’t work, it’s because the point of corporate income tax is to make sure the corporation doesn’t hoard money and instead reinjects it into business expenses such as payroll.
Company information for those interested - https://worldtree.info
"Welcome to the era of post-competence" is a surpringly fitting headline for SW projects also. Usually the original author leaves someday and then the era of post-competence begins.
On BBK's internal mail list, there was a letter from Duan saying that Xi's indecision lets USA to slowly bleed Chinese industry while American companies have sweet time relocating out of China at easy pace, and show US politicians how easy is China for picking, and that doing so is a totally repercussions free way to gain political capital. And that assures that China's troubles will not end with Trump now.

Another sentiment from a forum quite popular by industry oldtimers is beyond unflattering, pretty much a personal rant on Xi, so I can't say the source. The point was that Xi, a very insecure man, and the elites of his generation, were unable to resist influence of Trump's powerful ego, and that they are plainly frightened by him.

From my own view, this is indeed the case. It is hard to explain to somebody who live in the West how it works, but I'll try my best here:

See, that generation of people were risen in the culture dominated by the social class of "Big Men," and all of their social programming and mental processes work around one attaining, securing, maintaining, extracting benefits from, giving or forcefully taking that "Big Man" status from somebody.

In eyes of such people, somebody like Trump may indeed look like a very "top dog" person, more so than even Xi himself. And it is Xi's insecurity that pushes him to seek engagement with Trump, to show his peers that he "can talk on equals even with a big bad boy like Trump."

If he were to break off that engagement, and if he would've lashed out on Trump, many of his peers would've seen that as him going on defensive, and admitting his inferiority to Trump, as if he was skulking away from Trump's intimidating presence.
Try somewhere like Hampstead Heath in London. It's basically a large (Google maps reckons 50 mins to walk from one end to the other) wild heathland with woods and lakes but with very little 'manicuring' but only 10 mins from the centre by tube.

Pics: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=Hampstead%20heath&t...
I don't know, I see many problems with this comment (akin to the writing of postmodern continental philosophers). Maybe you can restate your conjecture again?

> In effect, the amplification effect would serve to create profit by creating an apparent valuable trade where none actually exists - such trades essentially print money.

Trading is a zero sum game (notwithstanding the allocative function enabled by proper price signals), so I don't see how it would engender inflation.

> the new behaviour of central banks having to cut their interest rates to near or at zero to compensate for this asymmetric inflation

There are many theories about the persistent low rates ("secular stagnation") etc., but I've _never_ heard that particular problem linked to HFT.

> I conjecture that, by ever increasing the sampling rate and the speed at which transactions complete, markets are not being made more efficient.

That's fairly clear, and I can agree with that.

> Instead, I hypothesise that, as markets directly effect the price of the instrument reflexively, the feedback latency produced creates relative local pockets of perceived value - which are only profitable trades in relation to local information asymmetry.

What?

> As the vast majority of high-speed trading holds market positions on extremely short time scales, shifting exposure constantly, this profit is immediately realised locally resulting in the gradual diffuision of this inefficiency as the increase in price of all instruments.

Not sure what you're saying there, but of course the idea is that traders with superior information can realise trading profits, and via such trading, information spreads through the market, until no such trading opportunities persist. However, HFT does not necessarily follow this kind of Hayekian vision, but is maybe more insightfully analysed in a game-theoretic framework.

> This is a direct result of the cost of trading being factored directly into the agent's local acceptable sale price of held instruments. Every local agent trading action is ideal, but the global market is a divergently inefficient one.

> Indeed, it is a market in which its pricing inefficiency is maximally concealed from all market participants.

What?

> In a sense, I conjecture that the estimator is not functioning to increase market efficiency ...

Possibly, yes.

> ... but is, instead amplifying local inefficiency globally, in effect, much like a charge pump would operate in a voltage multiplier circuit.

How is it amplifying it? Yes, we have seen flash crashes, sure, resulting in some transfer of wealth. But this does not explain or predict inflation, geometrically accelerating market activity, nucleated false-vacuum collapse, or any such things.
I want a Web in which we use different languages to describe a document and the UI for an app.
Yeah didn’t mean to criticize anyone’s behavior, just offering a tip for people in that situation in the future. A child with a high fever is probably going to get seen faster at urgent care, since the ER staff would triage them behind serious injuries, heart issues, etc.
I’ve only been in the hospital in India once (food poisoning), but everything was vastly different from the states. It was pretty cheap, and I had to pay up front.

Fairly sure Indian doctors make much less than American ones, because I don’t have the empirical evidence of that that you are looking for.
Stacked concrete boxes are an efficient way to preserve space for trees. Rows of houses and strip malls are.

Housing density and treespace are separate issues.
Why? To make people distrust these apps even more?
You can’t compare the costs of labor-intensive services across countries with dramatically different labor costs. When we lived in Bangladesh, my dad made maybe $40,000/year (in today’s money). My mom stayed home and we had a full time live in cook, nanny, and housekeeper.
Probably more accurate an analogy than you think:

https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
Yes, any drug that can be considered a coping mechanism against suicide.
As I explained in an update to my original comment, the offer to use the tuning fork came only after an extensive manual exam with range of motion and "does it hurt" tests. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear at first, it was 10 years ago.

I don't see what harm the tuning fork would have caused me beyond a moment of pain which would show that it was worth my time to get an X-ray.

Feeling a bit of pain is not the worst thing in the world. One time I had a tiny cavity on a lower molar, and my dentist offered to drill and fill it without anesthetic. He said that of course I was welcome to get a shot or two of novocaine as we'd normally done. But the lower jaw takes so much time to recover, and he'd had a small cavity of his own filled without novocaine and it was nice to be immediately back to normal.

He also knew that I was fairly tolerant to pain and he probably wouldn't have made the suggestion otherwise. So I took him up on it, and sure enough, it really hurt for a few seconds. But I had a completely normal mouth when I left the office. None of the usual drooling and tongue biting for the rest of the day. I went right out for a nice lunch!

So that was another tradeoff I was glad for, and hopefully these decisions are mine to make.
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Why do people say London density is so bad when there are homes with trees only 45min away?
> Once again, you have zero suggestions for how to school 99% of the population.

99% of the population could be home, private, or co-op schooled. Perhaps we can do an ACA-style voucher system. Everyone above X over the poverty line pays for their school, everyone else gets some kind of voucher.

> Homeschooling isn't feasible (or preferable) to a majority of the population

That's just your assertion, it's not backed up by an facts.

> It's like you are bitching about having a military, but you don't suggest another way to protect our country.

Who does the country need protection from, at this point? And if that country took control of our country, how would things be materially different than they are today?
> If it's unbiased, that's the same as saying it's random?

No, its deviations from the true value are essentially random.
You can play a game without adding an external reward to it.
Yet another +1 on this: I worked at the same tiny shop (a partnership-like handful of people) for about 15 years; We navigated a few technological transitions throughout those years and made more money than we probably should have, but when I (at age 40+) found myself at a larger shop, learning the latest tech stacks was definitely not the biggest challenge. Indeed, the challenge was slowing down a bit, submitting thoughtful PRs, coordinating with designers, writing documentation... you know, actual engineering process. I got my hands smacked mightily a few times at first, and I got PRs rejected, but I got the hang of it. And yes, my long-dormant telephone magically started ringing again as the technologies, people, and companies on my Linked profile started catching recruiters' eyes again like they did back in the day. It can happen to anyone, but I can see how it'd be particular common among people over 40. After all, I spent my entire 30s with the attitude of "this is working and making plenty of cash, why change it?"
In that case your post was an example of what that guideline asks you to avoid: flamebait and generic tangents.

Shoehorning a pre-existing grievance into the thread is exactly how we get repetitive flamewars. I know it feels more important, but it always feels that way, and that feeling needs to be resisted if we're to have curious discussions about new things. The art of being a good commenter involves focusing on the specific new information in an article.
At the same time though the industry has an age distribution that reflects the arc of the industry more than the selection of the workers.

I entered the field in the mid-90s and saw the industry hugely explode at the end of that decade. So as all of those nascent developers look around they noticed how few older developers there were and said "boy, this really is a young person's profession!". I remember all of the "before you turn 30, get a plan B" articles then, everyone fearfully looking into management or dubious project management paths.

And as that cadre aged, of course most new workers are younger, so proportionally they drop from a majority to a minority, but there are a massive number of very gainfully employed, successful older developers, and it certainly has been normalized far more than then.
Amusing that spoofing domestic calls is already illegal. Clearly there is no enforcement. Looking at my call history over the past week I have a grand total of 14 robocalls from a number that shares the first six digits of my phone (area code plus first three digits). I think there is a general consensus that these calls are obviously spoofed. I’m not even counting the numerous other 800 number (or non-800) calls that I have that don’t fit the obvious spoofing criteria I have laid out there. I have zero international spoofed calls. Why even bother with the international problem when the domestic law, clearly being violated, isn’t even enforced?
My 5th grader referred to her principal as “doctor” so and so... I told her he is not a doctor.

Now, on the other hand, I am one. With a license to practice and I never demand anyone use it. That’s just absurd!
The IoT market is a testing bed for custom hardware ideas. For every 20 dash buttons you eventually get a Nest. It just doesn't seem that way because of survivor bias.
Ah, too late to edit again, I was in a hurry on that update to beat the two hour limit. Just for clarity, that one sentence was supposed to read "I figured I would save both time and money by skipping it." (emphasis added)
I got really excited, but then I noticed that there was no PDF option. I hate epubs with a passion, because all epub programs suck.
So I didn't fully get it: what is BBS?
This is a semantic argument which misses the point.

Let's rephrase:

Alphabet has far more cash than it has ideas, which is definitely a good sign that it is far past being classified an innovative company and stockpiling it can be seen as denial.
I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility and I see them taking the same path as Netflix currently. They are launching with big games that people know, but they need to get people hooked with new exclusive games, and a bunch of cheap stuff so they can have the "Play 10k games for $X/month" marketing tagline.
Yes. Many people use "algorithmic trading" as a synonym for "automated trading" or even HFT, when it is used (in the industry) basically for "optimal execution, computer aided, of a client order".
If you use git you can do this with the --depth n option when you pull it down

$ git clone --depth 1 https://blah.com/foo/qux

will pull down just one step in the history.

Unfortunately I believe that mercurial requires a large amount of the history to reconstruct the current version in the tree. Last time I tried to pull down firefox I was unable to because I was working on a system with 1GB of ram and the firefox repository requires at least >2GB to pull down properly -- I believe this is a fundamental defect in mercurial, but I might be mistaken.
I honestly wasn’t trying to be condescending to you. I even said, right at the very beginning of my comment, that you’re right about many of your observations. My word choice may have been poor in some places, but overall I defend the content.

You’re (self-admittedly) missing some of the life and business experience that comes with being an older programmer, and then expressing skepticism about direct advice communicated by older programmers. This is also so common as to be a meme:

Person A: “I experienced $something_rare at work”

Person B: “I have never experienced such things. I am skeptical of your claims.”

So sure, you can call it whatever you like - skepticsm, disagreement or debate - but when people tell you about their experiences, and then you reject those experiences because you don’t have “evidence”...well, eventually you’re just confirming your own biases.

Again, it’s not that you’re wrong - I actually agree with your perceptions of older devs. I just think you’re missing critical life experiences that connect your observations with the arguments being made in the article.
Oops, thanks for the followup corrections.
Here's a good one: A couple of years ago I borrowed a small camper trailer from my grandparents as I was going on a week camping trip. I towed the camper over to my house and left it hitched to the truck.

I then plugged the trailer into an outlet on the side of the house so I could run the air conditioner while I packed it. There was an issue with the brake lights not always working on trailer also. I crawled under the truck to trace the wires (they had been spliced under there before so I wanted to check that area first).

While on my back I rested my forearm against the frame of the truck and then felt a small "pinch". I thought a bug bit me at first, but seeing nothing there, I touched my forearm back again to the frame and felt it again. I realized it was electricity. I had a multi meter handy and I stuck one end of the probe in my mouth and touched the other end to the frame. It read 50 volts a/c. I went and unplugged the trailer from the outdoor outlet and ran it through a window and plugged it into an outlet inside and the issue went away.

So what's up with that?
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Unlimited licensing could lead to everyone getting paid too low or unemployment. I've honestly wondered if compsci is goingto need caps. Everywhere is unreasonably picky about who will be considered even for an internship, because they can, because there are so many compsci grads. Getting my first job involved months of searching and horrible offers like 30k until I got lucky. This being with extensive volunteer experience since high school, 3.8 college gpa, honors in a tech school my high school sent me to, and an internship. I've seen lots of horror stories of CS grads applying everywhere for years fruitlessly because nobody wants them. Is this what we want to happen to doctors?
The article in the Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/ctvt-tum...) said:

"Also, the majority of those mutations, including almost all of the recent ones, are neutral. They don’t seem to benefit the tumor in any way. Again, that’s very different from most cancers, which are constantly adapting to outfox their hosts’ immune systems, or to grow a little faster, or to spread to new areas. Not so with CTVT. “We think that the cancer is not adapting anymore,” says Adrian Baez-Ortega, who was one of the main researchers on the study. “Maybe it doesn’t really need to.”

Perhaps, early on in CTVT’s history, it found such thorough ways of escaping the immune system and jumping into new hosts that no further tweaks were necessary. Or perhaps it no longer imposes enough harm on its hosts to warrant a counterattack. It’s rarely fatal, after all, and if dogs are otherwise healthy, it doesn’t grow very fast. “The tumor and the dogs aren’t competing against each other anymore,” Baez-Ortega says. “They’re coexisting. The cells behave like cancer cells, but the ecology of the tumor is that of a parasite.” And a fairly benign one at that."
If I was still a teenager, using "basic" in this way would probably sound good, now it sounds incredibly stupid. I've officially become my father.
It certainly would be strange if wealth-independent happiness caused people to live near trees but trees didn't make them happy.
It's like Reddit except lots of unrelated people ran it and you dialed into it with a modem.