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In a word, it's time. If I want to drive somewhere in my town, it takes at most 15 minutes. A bus is easily 30-45. I think over long distances rail allows you to save time, or at least break even.
Thank you. That's not nearly as exciting as all of it being stolen by Chinese spies, but "we looked in the wrong boxes at first" is a much more believable answer.
No we did that throughout the 19th century: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/1_.... We became the richest country in the world around 1890 when we overtook China.
For anyone interested, the "garage in California" is EV West. Here are three more in-depth videos from the wonderful Fully Charged channel about EV West:

EV West - in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOx5uCufB2Q

EV West - BMW M3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHaqiWcWSIc

EV West - VW Bus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLRAQu0b8-o
They aren't saying get rid of coke. They are saying get rid of coke advertising. Everyone already knows about coke and is indoctrinating the rising generations without the need for additional advertisement.
> Is there some clade of humans that just regurgitate theory back and forth to each other?

Oh, there are many. Go through the department of any non-applied academic field, or just turn your TV on the news. (Although one can claim the later is entertainment.)
You could try bringing the word 'blight' back, but some farmers and foresters might get their jimmies rustled.
> housing units will exist at high end prices

People who can afford to buy these new high-end units will move out of their previous, less high-end units and the result is more affordable housing because the supply is closer to meeting the demand.
Arby's at least would require a complete rebranding in order to sell this stuff. "We have the meats^H^H^H^Hanufactured plant products!" (I'm not familiar with B&L marketing but presumably they would be in a similar position?) I can also understand Chipotle's point of view on this.
The $300 payment can be modeled as a payment whose state mutated later.

Or it can be modeled as event stream where on {id=2, t=2, +$300} was posted, and {id=2, t=4, -$300} was declined. If you want to distinguish between a "retry" or a "remainder", you add that into the tuple within the event stream.
One thing overlooked by the article is that portfolio management and other similar applications often involve "trade secret" proprietary analysis and evaluation methods. It's way easier to build, manage, and protect that sort of IP in a spreadsheet than in other application environments. In particular, it's reasonable to be leery of software that requires paying the vendor to customize it, since at least some of your methodology is almost certain to leak to competitors. Excel has many faults, but it does allow you to keep everything behind your own walls, with no dependencies on vendors, consultants, the cloud, etc.
It's that model's Achilles heel - they go wrong for a pastime, a combination of weak design, poor manufacturing tolerances and no way to measure bearing preload.
I'm all for them trying to move it forward. Like you said, the "good taste" is coming from plant oils, Impossible uses coconut oil. Howerver, will we soon see a 'tropical oil plantations are accelerating global warming' backlash? Of all the environment issues for beef, water usage scares me the most. The Ogallala Aquifer is in trouble and there will be a reckoning.
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This is great, and I hope it spurs on more transit development in general down there. San Diego is one of those cities that I adore, so long as I don't have to drive anywhere. Right on the ocean, the weather is perfect, it has lots of great food and beers, and it's generally a pretty cool place. I also appreciate that a lot of the roads are not very wide, so areas like downtown feel great to walk around because it's not very busy. But it drives me nuts that if you want to go literally any other neighborhood it requires a car and sitting in traffic.

It's not super dense in terms of population now, but with proper infrastructure growth it could be one of the greats!
I've been liking Eden Reforestation (https://edenprojects.org/), which employs local populations to plant trees in deforested areas. Ecosia is listed on their Partner page, so I'd assumed that's how it works under the hood.

I'm interested in hearing about other projects, too.
I don't know what they're like these days, but when I was younger, the vast majority of the phone book was a series of advertisements for various businesses.
It doesn't. But it can guarantee regular payments, and transparency regarding the funds available.

You could implement a voting mechanism for the milestone payment. Or leave it to the boss.
One of the best concerts I ever saw, I only knew about because of a TV commercial. In theory I could have found out about it another way, but I don't follow music news closely.

I generally mute/fast-forward commercials. Those are the best kinds of ads we can hope for because they're easy to skip and they're completely distinct from content. I'd rather fast-forward through an anonymous, non-targeted commercial for diapers than have Netflix manipulate me into watching what's profitable for them with their browse interface, based on my viewing and internet history, and then there's Coca-Cola all over the show itself.
I used to work at Aereo.

I fully expect Locast to lose, but this truly is an A+ troll. Really warms my heart.
> planners are the least of our problems. It's zoning policies and NIMBYs

Sure, I agree with that. But a lot of that zoning and NIMBYism seems to use the idea that cities can be 'planned' as a crutch. "We have traffic because it's not 'well-planned'" - as opposed to realizing that you have traffic because the modern portion of your city is predicated on automobile ownership for pretty much every facet of your life.
It's all bolted on.
after which their assets can be liquidated to pay off their debts to the people
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Ok, great, it provided incalculable value to the world. At what point do we decide it is just existing as a barnacle and pumping money into making billionaires richer? How do we move past Googles dominant position and reclaim that monetary stream for better causes? Like you said, it is incalculably valuable, kind of like you might consider some public services to be.
Safety! Generics allow you to get [theorems for free](https://ecee.colorado.edu/ecen5533/fall11/reading/free.pdf), so generics make certain classes of error extremely hard to make.
It’s a lot easier to see which of two blood pressure drugs that work through the same mechanism works better at... reducing blood pressure.

The usual problem is that we don’t compare drugs in the same class against each other (for fear of negative results).
I recall watching, some years ago, a documentary about the making of Tetris in which one of the contributors noted how much less colourful public spaces were in the advertising-free Soviet Union compared to the West.

Which isn't to say that a better balance couldn't be struck (in the West and elsewhere) now, but 'cancer' is the sort of thing you want to eradicate rather than moderate.
Couldn't the same be said of any luxury?
The approach of using a web UI is valid (even Apple uses it with Apple Music on desktop) but the problem with Electron is how much bloat it adds.

Thanks, the same to you!
Physical objects are not the same as information. We create all information. Hard drives are just atoms arranged a particular way and how we interact and process those atoms adds the information layer on top. Same goes for DNA.
Unger's book doesn't get the attention it deserves, maybe because he is a humanities guy. I just wanted to add that response to his book was (predictably) very hostile, much like with Hubert Dreyfus' What Computers Can't Do. Unger offered well-reasoned criticism early in the hype cycle, but it seems to have had no influence on how people responded to the FGCP.
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I would be okay with advertising if they were at least truthful. There are too many false claims and statistics. Business should not be based on misleading people but somehow that's where we are today.
The naysayers in the comment thread are missing the understanding that the fundamental technologies driving this are all moving exponentially. Beyond Meat's innovation came from a Stanford professor who is an expert in RNA molecules (he helped them figure out their protein structure/selection), impossible foods is a synthetic biology company. Exponential techs always underwhelm in the beginning but soon deliver more powerful products than people imagined. That's going to happen with this industry and faster than people expect.
That's crazy. I've seen people implement templating of go files to support generics in Go because it's serves a valuable purpose.
An electric motor, you'll need something to run the power steering pump too.
We were at a rented condo and my 6 year old told me that paw patrol was broken, she said it kept stopping and starting. I had to go watch it with her before realizing she was talking about advertisements. She had never seen advertisements before (having only ever watched shows like paw patrol on DVDs checked out from the library) and didn't understand what was going on. It was really eye opening for me.
An american company develops an american drug, manufactures it in america, ships it to canada, and then its legal to go buy in canada? Instead of fixing the price discrepancy in the first place.

Its just another goofy legal loophole to avoid adressing the issue.
That's why I said "or near". I figured it was common knowledge if you drive anywhere around the area. But it's true that it's not signed anywhere (that I know of), so if you're driving from farther away, it would be easy to get caught.
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Anyone know the old Bill Hicks joke? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Mn2NbjlqU I think advertising is part of the human condition. Once people want something, they tend to change how they relate the facts to better fit their self interest. I see this as an evolution-created short cut. So, while it is valuable to recognize it, demonizing it may not turn out to be that useful. Instead, if we take that advertising is as inevitable a phenomena as language, we can try to avoid its pitfalls as consumers and producers.
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That would be a waste of money. Building transit lines without people to ride them means that they reach their end of useful life from old age without serving enough people to be worth them. It would be environmentally sound to build another freeway - at least that somewhat reduces congestion caused pollution (until the city grows and you need a new one).

Build high density around a bus stop, and some of the people will take the bus. Those additional riders mean the bus is making more money and can afford to add more routes. More routes means the bus is useful to more people who start riding the bus... Eventually you have enough people on the bus to switch to a better transit mode. The bus rider levels also show where people want to go which guides where you put the trains instead of a guess and prayer. But this all requires enough density to start the cycle in the first place.
> For example, everybody on the planet is now familiar with soft drinks. If anybody has never tasted Coke, it's not by accident. But Coke's ad budget is enormous. If all soft drink companies stopped advertising tomorrow, society would not be worse off. And we'd have billions of dollars [1] to spend on something useful.

Not that I disagree, but where do you draw the line? Sure, if Coke stopped advertising we'd have billions of dollars to spend on something "useful". On the other hand, if Coke stopped making soft drinks, we'd have billions of dollars to spend on something "useful" AND significantly decreased obesity.

If you are going to make the argument that having soft drinks improves life somehow, then that implies it's better for people to know about soft drinks, and how will they know? Advertising.
Agree that it's not as healthy as eating less processed plant based foods, however I don't think anyone is going to Burger King or White Castle expecting that.

But are these plant burgers actually claiming or marketing themselves as healthy?

The only places I have seen them served are in restaurants and bars alongside burgers and unhealthy bar food - which I think you might be surprised is a big chunk of many people's diets. I have many coworkers who eat next to no vegetables.

I am hoping they can provide a spring board into more traditional plant based foods for people, including the Med and Indian cuisines you mention.
Agreed on keeping the status quo, adding generics makes it really easy to write bad code and increases mental overhead. Simplicity is what we should be going for, not having generics should've been kept as a selling point.
Check the IPD setting on your setup. VR with IPD done right should actually be lower eye strain than a monitor.
I didn't use the term "arms race", but I tried to communicate this point in few places, calling out the zero-sum and negative-sum properties of advertising, and the waste it creates. I'll update the post later on to make the arms race aspect more visible.
I constantly think about how the world would look if even a fraction of the people doing creative for ads were free to be creative elsewhere.
Please share the results too.
I was using a physical RGB LED so there wasn't much extra bandwidth for conveying information. I live in a cold climate so green really meant "Leave now and you'll only have to wait in the cold at the stop for 2-3 minutes". Here's the code if anyone's interested[1]. Looks like my memory wasn't quite right, I did blue/green/red with blue=wait, green=leave, red=missed.

[1] https://gist.github.com/kevana/32bfa486d9fb0aa20a19694d1b69d...
So the trees had evolved, but the bacteria had not caught on yet. "It’s a curious mismatch. Food to eat but no eaters to eat it." In a few million years, they might be saying the same thing about plastic.
I've had cancer, and I've had people close to me die of cancer, so I can see where you're coming from. Even the mention of it would freak me out - I remember when my mom was dying of cancer, and I was being treated for it, watching an episode of Stargate to escape from it - and one of the characters in the episode was dying of cancer - so much for escape!

But, then again, somethings really are as virulent and aggressive as cancer, and I'm ok with them being compared to it. I'm fine with the (needed, imo) reaction.
Indeed, it's extortionate. "Boy, it'd be a shame if you didn't take your insulin and died, wouldn't it. That'll be $700." Thanks, free market!
Have a look at their IPO prospectus. Until they built their plant in 2018 they were selling at below COGS. But this is mostly a scale problem, which is why the stock is still performing well, as they are growing so fast the market is confident they will fix the cost problem over time.
Sorry, it wasn't me that worked on BSD, GCC, Cyc, and biomedical research, it was Gumby.
Mutex timeouts show up in some implementations as leases.

Essentially you're putting a lower bound on Availability in favor of Consistency. Lease expiry happens when the lessor isn't around to retire the lease in an orderly fashion. It's detecting a Partition. In theory a network partition, but we all know how CPU boundedness creeps into the system as the feature set or the data set grows... and that can show up even on a solitary machine.
It requires teaching the engineering team to reason and prove idempotency guarantees.

I've seen teams try to continue programming the way they always have and try to throw difficult problems over the wall. It is exactly-once in a non-threaded, monolithic, stateless web app, so why shouldn't it always be like that? It's part of a programmer's mindset to try to create abstractions and reason within a simpler problem space.
Totally a valid concern and this usage should probably be limited or eradicated. However, I think there is some legitimacy to it in this case considering how negative of an impact ads can have on lives.

In other words, it's obviously figurative, but not necessarily (meant as) hyperbole.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266747/
There’s just so much going on I guess. There are times where I don’t mind FB knowing what my interests are.
A lot of people don't anymore.
>No actual transit (the kind that runs on rails)

What an arbitrary way to decide what "actual" transit is. There are about a thousand other, very valid, very useful, very modern ways of building transit that have nothing to do with rails. If you're saying rails but meaning grade-separation, you're still wrong about non-grade-separated systems being somehow inherently inferior or unworthy. Look at any list of top transit systems in the world, the majority of modern systems incorporate non-grade-separated systems like trams, busways, or even regular old busses, because they work and they're cheap. People with your mindset are why this country may never have widespread transit systems, because you think insanely expensive infrastructure is the solution to a culture, marketing, and economic problem.
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ALL new military hardware has flaws. All. Pick any and I can guarantee there were some "major" flaws.

Let's take the beloved A-10.

> When A-10 full-rate production was first authorized the aircraft's planned service life was 6,000 hours. A small reinforcement to the design was quickly adopted when the A-10 failed initial fatigue testing at 80% of testing

> Fatigue testing for the new target quickly discovered serious cracks at Wing Station 23 (WS23) where the outboard portions of the wings are joined to the fuselage. The first production change was to add cold working at WS23 to address this problem. Soon after that, the Air Force determined that the real-world A-10 fleet fatigue was more harsh than estimated, forcing them to change their fatigue testing, introducing "spectrum 3" equivalent flight-hour testing

> Spectrum 3 fatigue testing started in 1979. This round of testing quickly determined that more drastic reinforcement would be needed.

This BS went on for a while.

> A fourth, even more drastic change was initiated with aircraft #582, again to address the problems discovered with spectrum 3 testing.

582 aircraft built and they were still fixing major problems!

Let's take another one. F-16.

> Its actual first flight occurred accidentally during a high-speed taxi test on 20 January 1974. While gathering speed, a roll-control oscillation caused a fin of the port-side wingtip-mounted missile and then the starboard stabilator to scrape the ground, and the aircraft then began to veer off the runway. The test pilot, Phil Oestricher, decided to lift off to avoid a potential crash, safely landing six minutes later.

> One change made during production was augmented pitch control to avoid deep stall conditions at high angles of attack. The stall issue had been raised during development, but had originally been discounted. Model tests of the YF-16 conducted by the Langley Research Center revealed a potential problem, but no other laboratory was able to duplicate it. YF-16 flight tests were not sufficient to expose the issue; later flight testing on the FSD aircraft demonstrated there was a real concern. In response, the area of the horizontal stabilizer were increased by 25% on the Block 15 aircraft in 1981 and later retrofitted to earlier aircraft.

F-16 seems to have been more smoothly than most as it was designed to be cheaper to build and maintain, smaller and simpler than other aircraft used at the time.

I will not include the F-14 because this would turn this comment into a book. Even the F-4's classic look is due to issues they discovered during wind tunnel testing.

So chill out. When you are trying to design a system thats way more capable than the predecessors you are bound to run into issues noone has encountered before. Same thing when you are trying new designs (see the Osprey).

You may complain about the costs, and if you are a taxpayer that's fair. It doesn't mean that it's crap. It definitely isn't. The radar alone is worth it.
Eventually one of the two companies will survive by raising prices drastically. Until then it's a VC-powered burn-rate battle...
Computers. And if you want to be pedantic, you'll say but they would exist for military etc!!!!!

But if you're not being pedantic you'll agree that most stuff relating to computing exists in its current form in lockstep with yhe ability of companies to sell and therefore advertise their products.

Not just computers but everything related to them too.
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AQI is taken by fixed sensor stations, you can even get a map of them per Chinese city (along with individual readings for more localized AQI measurements). So a few Hebei officials were scamming the system by filtering the air directly around the sensor stations. Beijing was not amused.
I think another area of Go that could use improvements is a more portable standard library optimised for embedded and OS dev. A lot of people want to use Go as a "systems language" and do drivers etc. in it. But the standard library don't have good support for freestanding, or at least it's not a priority. C and Rust and other languages designed for usage in a non-hosted environment have very clear delineated areas of runtime that requires assembly, manual interfaces for IO/memory allocation etc. Go's runtime by default assumes the presence of an operating system.
What if advertising spend was taxed at an incredibly high rate?

Would this reduce the overall amount of advertising and cause the remaining advertising to be smarter and more effective? Could this even be implemented? Could it be subverted?
I'm only one data point but I disagree. I think their premise makes a lot of sense. You can be patient and still be very poor. I've seen a lot of people be that way. But growing up those people are very likely not to stay that way.

Wealthy parent, I would guess know that patience is a valuable skill and can be taught. Poor parents don't know this. But the poor kids that just so happen to be patient for whatever reason from my experience excelled at socio-economic mobility the way I didn't see less patient people. Every person I know including myself who made it out are very very long term thinkers.
No need for a lock for such synchronization between a loading thread and a rendering thread, though, when you can use an atomic pointer or ready flag.

Maybe a lazy GUI framework could use a mutex timout, though.
Freelancing!=consulting,or at least not always. In consulting you'd normally sign engagement contracts, probably even come up with a proposal on what you'll do. Also depends what companies you deal with,in what industry and etc. Freelancing,at least in generally accepted terms,is slightly different,even though there's lots of overlapping areas.
Didn't realize they had a new formula. I liked the old formula.
They certainly commute into San Diego and are part of the the SD Metro area.
The web existed before Google, Facebook, etc. and, as you might recall, it worked just fine.