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I should have been more clear. Let me try again.

The road infrastructure is already there, and has been already subsidized. It is my opinion that private autonomous transportation will become more efficient and cheaper than public transportation and therefore will supplant it. I speak not as the world expert, but as someone who did a relatively deep analysis of transportation costs in US cities. The ballpark figure is what I call TCTM, or Total Cost of Transportation per Mile, which doesn't take into account the cost of road infrastructure, simply assuming that it is already there. TCTM for uber/lyft and similar services is going down, and you do not even need fully autonomous, level-5 driverless cars, to have a TCTM lower than that offered by public buses.

Hope this is clearer.
As do I! Long live beef!!!
It’s disputed, but shouldn’t be. The third investigation pretty conclusively showed it was a bomb placed under the wash basin in the rear lavatory.

The missing body parts near the front of the plane suspected to be the missile impact point were found.
R&D costs are more than covered by the price paid in Canada and indeed most nations; the US is merely funding massive pharma profit margins and fat executive bonuses.
"Equal numbers of environmentalists might spend the day throwing darts at these little guys for showing up so late."

Epic logic fail here. Without them showing up late, the carbon wouldn't have been fossilized/sequestered, and we'd be sitting at several thousand ppm right now.
That chart mostly reflects that the dollar gained a lot of strength over that time span since it converts to dollar at every years exchange rate, if you go back to 2000 you'd see that all of them gained huge amounts since dollar weakened a lot from 2000-2007.
Hmm, I must have misunderstood last time, pretty cool nonetheless!
Ok so that's what I mean by missing variable - the "number of days in that month" is not represented on the graph.

It also makes more sense that this is plotting 12 points and smoothing the curve, in my mind me I had assumed it was a daily plot of the data.
New York times blocked your article on Climate and National Security too. That's why the NYT is going to end. Short sighted profiteering.
I think it's a pretty huge point that's overlooked, not just a quibble.

If a group of kids were fed healthy, home-made meals all week and then get a piece of chocolate cake on Sunday night, it's clearly misleading to say "100% of these children were raised on chocolate cake!".
What is the theoretical limit? I mean there should be end.
Yeah, the problem with that is it's a completely flawed premise.

"It's a malignant mutation of an idea that efficient markets need a way to connect goods and services with people wanting to buy them."

No, it isn't. It's an expansion of the idea that people are more likely to buy things they have heard of. If it was just to connect people with what they already want to buy, there would be no product development, no product roll-outs, because people don't know they want to buy something that has never existed before.

Also 'over time it became increasingly manipulative and dishonest' is a joke. It's been dishonest since the start. Criers lying about the effectiveness of some tonic, the attractiveness of some woman, the strength and wisdom of some leader.
>It's terribly unhealthy, and the risks associated with the consumption of red meat are well known.

They aren't, really. Of course, in the circle, none of this matters.
You can have portability without the bloat introduced by having Node and Chrome bundled in each app.

We've gone from using Electron to using the web view provided by the platform (macOS/Windows) and we've reduced the app size by 90%. The macOS app consumes about 20MB of memory...

We do have some native code in each platform which represents about 10-15% of the app but we could have reduced that a lot if we had used cross platform code (C++, Go, Nim, Rust, etc) compiled as libs for each platform.
>With Comcast, this would most often translate to a real-life asymetric 250mbps download, 50mbps upload speed

Don't forget the inevitable data cap!
Lack of public (official) specifications is much less of a problem than patents. Closed specifications can be reverse-engineered, but patents impede even independent clean-room implementations.
Algebra: An Elementary Text-Book by G. Chrystal
Plastic doesn't literally grow on trees...yet.
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The amount of vegan propaganda out there is outstanding. The thing about these burgers is:

1) they taste like ass

2) they're super-processed full-of-refined-oils junk food

I don't doubt we'll see these phased out of restaurants pretty quick. Right now they're a new fad to try, but sooner or later omnivores will realize there are literally no benefits to eating this crap over actual beef. Only the true vegans will be left, and they're just not enough of a market to sustain the supply chain problems that come with having yet another type of patty (see: the McRib).

The funniest part is actual vegetarian burgers aren't even that bad. Yeah they taste different than beef, but they're in the same format, taste fine, and are quite a bit healthier. This pretend-meat is just bad.
I still do all/most of my html css js by hand in Notepad++, @davchana at Gitlab. Yes, just a hobby, but still.
Ah, didn't realize slicing always made copies. A view/alias/whatever would have been fine for the example, but having multiple variable names referring to the same memory has caused me enough problems to try to avoid it by default.
Yep unfortunately, cancer has become a cancerous meme. It's bad taste language, i dont know who started the trend but i hope it ends soon.
Now that an adversary can know this about you, I suggest you learn how spearphishing campaigns work.
May be you could share feedback with us and the designers about which parts you think will be hard to understand? This is a valid concern but only way to address this is to specify and share as feedback to the proposal.
It explicitly references the US-Mexico border. Although I did assume it was written post-2016, the point should still stand.
But is that any different for any other material like steel or concrete?
Plants use chemicals as defense. For instance, take caffeine which is a neurotoxin.
A firm selling paper to (commercial) printers ensured the sales force (internal and external) used Pareto in this way. Customers that were listed in the top 20% of revenue providers were designated as KEY accounts and vital to the existence of the company.
I think the way to look at it is that the vast majority of the graph is taken up by industry -- either manufacturing, or shipping/transportation. I think the actual key to making a difference is reducing consumption. Buy something once in your life rather than every few years. Go for higher quality items rather than disposable. These days, energy is the controlling factor in cost -- automation having reduced labour costs. Every time you buy something a good proportion of that cost is just energy. If you change from spending, say, $30K per year to spending $10K per year, you will reduce overall energy expenditure massively.

There are 2 problems with this: 1) our economy isn't designed to deal with a reduction in demand. 2) our culture is geared to fill up our houses with new things every year.

So that's my suggestion if you want to make a personal contribution.

Edit: There is a small line for "Agricultural Energy Use" and another for "Other Agriculture". All agricultural energy use is 1.4% and the total for all agriculture other than rice production is 0.9%. So I suppose the milk industry is some proportion of the 5% of livestock and the 2.3% of everything else. However, in some parts of the world it does contribute to deforestation. In fact, my understanding is that the vast majority of deforestation is actually for agricultural use -- but a lot of that is for chemical products as well (palm oil for use as an emulsifier in detergent as an example). Probably easiest way to deal with that is to buy local, traditional goods and to avoid luxury imported items.
Safari actually does (or did it): normal (grey) https icons for normal certificates as well as color coded icons including an abbreviated version of the party the certificate was issued to. (Compare this to variations of shield icons you have to click onto for further information in Firefox, which deems me to be much more cryptic.)

As for colors or other signaling, yes, these are mostly cultural and are to be learned. (E.g., red isn't naturally "bad" or a warning, it may be rather "important") However, this is such a crucial technology, isn't it a viable option having a set of rules, which easily fits on a single page of legal paper in big print, and teach this to everyone? (How do people manage to cross the street, if they can't be expected to incorporate a simple set of rules? We, on the other hand, rather teach them to be careless and suspend judgement. Notably, I'm speaking of the desktop environment, mobile has a completely different set of requirements and widely proliferated alternatives, like dedicated apps for crucial tasks.)

And, regarding don't care about the identity as long as it is TLS, I'm not so sure.
> It's pure waste.

And yet capitalism is still lauded as the most efficient economic system...
I actually got my first dev job by doing exactly that. While I was searching for a new career and vaguely interested in something to do with IT, I was doing short-term temp work as an office admin. One was in a startup - not tech-related - where I spent most of my day searching for customers' names and addresses in a spreadsheet, then copy-pasting them into a bunch of Word templates and printing them out. I already knew about mail merge, but in this job the particular set of docs to be generated would be different according to the specific circumstances of each individual case, along with one or two customer-specific paragraphs that came in an email and had to be pasted into the document.

Having been a hobby programmer as a teenager, I had a hunch this could be made more efficient. Once I discovered VBA (what? Excel has its very own programming language BUILT IN?!) I quickly threw together some macros and an Excel form that generated the whole personalised document set in a few clicks (what? you can write code in Excel to control Word? This is AWESOME!)

At the time I was sharing a house with a couple of CS students and one of them let me borrow a very academic textbook about this wacky thing called SQL. I fell in love with the idea of tables and joins and stored procs, skipped over all the difficult maths parts, and discovered back at work that the funny icon next to Word and Excel called "Access" was actually a SQL database. Feeling like I had all the power of the universe at my fingertips, I hacked together a custom CRM system which pretty soon the whole office was using, and pretty soon it started grinding to a halt.

Round about then the company hired its first IT Manager, he liked what I had done and said: maybe you should check out this new thing called SQL Server 2000, do you want to be our Database Developer? So I shifted the back end over to SQL then discovered .NET 1.1 and started writing better front ends and hired a small team to take it over.

So yeah, I kind of fell into business app development by accident just by automating my very repetitive office admin job. That was 15 years ago, and I'm still getting paid to automate other people's 9 to 5 jobs.
All modern (1980s and later) RWRs can determine the bearing of emissions. Heck, even the RWR in the Mig-21 (1950s plane) could determine bearing. With bearings known, all you need is two planes to determine location by taking the intersection of the two bearings. Most RWRs can also identify the type of radar, as well as whether it is searching or locked into a target. Planes can also equip targeting pods that have even more advanced passive sensors: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ASQ-213

Passive sensors have advanced significantly.
My guess would be that Amazon has some algorithm to flag reviewers with odd review patterns. Things like only reviewing products from one manufacturer, or only reviewing new products, or other things like that would potentially indicate a bot.

And so the bot makers have gotten around this by having their bots have a more human-like pattern of reviews. Reviewing a product that already has a lot of reviews makes the bot seem more human.
fully level-5 cars? Maybe. Autonomous doesn't have to be fully level-5 to exist in cities. e.g. autonomous subways have been operating in Singapore since 2011, and been technically ready since 2003 [0]. You might argue, "that's public, not private transportation", and of course you're right. But are you sure nothing can be done to private cars to become fully autonomous, without requiring a level-5? e.g. many car models currently on the market are "fully autonomous" on highways, for example. Don't underestimate the innovation that can still happen there.

"All new MRT lines built since the North East line in 2003 were equipped with CBTC from the outset, and have the capability to be completely driverless and automated, requiring no onboard staffing."

p.s. I rode on the driverless line several times in 2011 and 2012.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Rapid_Transit_(Singapore)
Is it a common problem that hitting snooze on the alarm is /too hard/?

I find myself paying for apps that make hitting the snooze button complicated. Captchas. Math. You name it.

Is there any combination of sensors that gives the smartphone an idea if I'm properly awake? Not talking about light sleep vs dreaming here. More the "will he get out of bed" kind.
If you're ever in my part of the world, you should visit the Connections Museum[1]. It is truly humbling to see how far we've come. At this museum, you can dial a phone, hear the 'thinking' of all the electromechanical switching crossing the room, before the phone starts ringing.

[1] https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/
> The reason drugs are cheaper in Canada and Europe is because of the massive negotiating power of a single buyer

Very few countries have single purchasers for pharmaceuticals.
> Of course there's some shitty, lame advertising, and there's some "manipulative" crap, and there's shady practices like ad tracking. No one is arguing those are good.

The argument I'm making in the article is that it's not some advertising that's manipulative and shady, but that it's almost all of it.

> I'm always baffled that on a website that's devoted to technology, hosted by the most ambitious startup accelerator in the world, that topic comes up almost monthly, and no one has had any idea how to kill all of those ad tech startups by offering a superior solution.

It comes up monthly because it's a problem, particularly on the Internet. But solutions are hard to find, because it's a hard problem. For one, it has prisonner's-dillema-like nature - if you show up with a way to do well without advertising, a competitor will take your method, add advertising to it, and proceed to do even better.

(Scott Alexander once wrote a very long essay specifically about such problems[0], and he didn't figure out anything actionable either. It's a hard problem, and arguably the root of all the big human-caused issues on this planet.)

I have no good solutions and I said that exact thing in the article. If I ever find one, I'll let the world know. Best I can think of now is individual and collective (i.e.: regulatory) ways of resisting and reducing the individual shady practices and negative consequences of those.

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[0] - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I think it's economics. The american middle class is richer, and taxed lower than almost any other in the OECD. That means that people can afford big houses in the suburbs,[1] and multiple cars per household,[2]. That means businesses have huge incentives to locate in low-cost suburbs, because they can count on all their workers being able to drive to work.

Also, for the most part, driving is just faster, even in cities with bad traffic. I'm pretty lucky--I've got a train station 22 minutes from my house that drops me off an 8-minute walk away from work (with no transfers). Driving in involves fighting through rush-hour traffic from one end of D.C. to the opposite end, but it's still no slower on the way in, and 20 minutes faster on the way out. All those stops just make the train slow.

[1] Average house size in the US is twice as big as in Japan or Western Europe: https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/fun-at-home/news/a765...

[2] Americans have 50% more cars per capita than the EU average.
Most of the backcountry camping I’ve done in the US has been “find somewhere 1-2 miles from any formal trail” and you’re on your own. No signage, no toilet, no nothing. Usually only fuel fires and no fire rings (especially in the west).
> The only truly unforgiveable one is UnsupportedOperationException. The guy who wrote the collections API for Java didn't know the first thing about the Liskov Substitution Principle, and gave the world an implementation that violates it...

The implementation perfectly follows it because the LSP simply requires identical behavior, and the contract clearly states it may[1] throw an exception. All the implementations "may" throw an exception. Sorry, but they correctly lawyered the LSP.

> I came up with around 20% more than the selected design.

But `add` can throw 5 different exceptions depending on restrictions your implementation wants to place on a given collection, does it allow for all that? In terms of making an interface that was small and reusable by many projects, runtime exceptions are a pretty good compromise for a standard library.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Collecti...
It still has the same problems, in that people can bootleg it. Just at a smaller scale. Remember, they have low-grade turf wars in NYC over cigarette sales due to the really high taxes.
I meant that UEFI doesn't have a BASIC interpreter (though probably someone has written one).

I did not know that bootOS had one, but it does not surprise me given everything else I read on this thread.
Well, the diameter of a silicon atom is 0.2nm, so I would guess it's at least that with silicon-based computers.
> unikernel

Hah! https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-product...
I’d say in Java they’re still not quite there, being implemented via compile-time type erasure and runtime type-assertions.
A critical distinction is that it's not an emulator. "Compatibility layer" is a great description of what's actually happening. It's a (set of) native library(ies) which provide the ABI and call targets that are expected by the software and wrap around native OS functions to provide those.

To use a metaphor, it's like someone made a replacement edge for a puzzle, which interlocks with a subset of existing pieces for another puzzle rather than someone making a table-sandbox within which to use the the entire initial puzzle.
One of the problems with unsubscribing is that I've seen a LOT of marketers re-using old lists and importing me back into a new list from some obscure snapshot, often with names like "new-list-feb-2019". There's no guarantee that, even when I unsubscribe from a given list, the company hasn't already exported my email address to some CSV file for future marketing efforts.
Every time I watch or read a debate on US healthcare issues the debaters conveniently ignore a reality that every single entrepreneur dealing with physical products is keenly aware of: Cost drivers

Doing business in the US is very expensive. In the case of pharmaceuticals we have high regulatory costs and, perhaps worst than that, high legal costs.

If you want to develop and sell a medical device in the US you have to accept the fact that it will take a ton of time and money to deal with the FDA. Not trivial, at all, even for relatively simple products (say, basic hearing aids).

Worse than that, once you enter the market you have to expect the near certainty of having to face one or more nasty lawsuits. Medical product manufacturers, be it drugs or hardware, get pounded with lawsuits. From someone manufacturing a simple cane to prescription drugs. Lawsuits are so common most companies have complete legal departments on staff.

Given that reality, yes, definitely yes, there will be a difference in cost when selling drug A in the US vs. Canada, Peru or Italy. No question about it.

Yet, during debates between politicians all we hear about is how changing health insurance in one direction or another will reduce healthcare costs.

That's just nonsense. It has to start with tort reform and educational loan reforms that reduce the cost of education. A doctor graduating with $300K in debt has no choice but to charge very high fees for his or her services.

Now fill a hospital with people with multi-100K student debt and see if you can lower operating costs. Add to that an expensive regulatory framework and even more expensive legal landscape and the answer is simple: You can't. It doesn't matter how you twist and contort health insurance. If the underlying cost structure is high, no amount of magic hand waving is going to make things better.

That's our problem.

There's an asymptotic lower limit to what medical professionals have to earn in order to have a life. And there's another asymptotic limit to what the entire medical industry service and supply chain, from component suppliers to OEM's, doctors and hospitals have to charge in order to deal with regulatory and legal costs. Pretending none of this exists while talking about health insurance is kind of silly.

If you bring prescription drugs in from abroad, it will not take long until a MOAL (Mother of All Lawsuits) costs someone a ton of cash and imported drugs become just as expensive as anything else gotten locally.

Nobody seems interested in addressing the real issues, probably because he political value isn't as clear as beating on the low hanging fruit, even when this will fix nothing.

Ever wonder why we've been talking about healthcare reform for decades and nothing ever really changes? Well, now you know.
The perfect language and why Go still isn't it
I believe this was the other commenter's point - regardless of your diet, you always have to be careful with what you eat, and in what proportions. Nothing about vegetarian diets is automatically healthier than meat-based ones.
>You could have said the same things about Intel and 7nm a few years ago.

Intel's 10nm and 7nm never went into Risk Production, Intel could lie about their progress because they were the only user of their Fab. And they never gave a precise definition, progress of their node, as they are not a Foundry business. Compared to TSMC Hundred of Customers relies on them being open and transparent with their progress. As long as Intel could continue to sell their Chips, it really doesn't matter which node they are on. Which is the reason Why Intel Custom Foundry never took off, they have held information to closely to themselves, and didn't treat their customer as parter in the likes of Samsung and TSMC.
While I don’t doubt your story and haven’t read your link, what is interesting to me is that I have been a vegetarian for 13 years haven’t had any of these symptoms. What explains the variation here?
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