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Dell has some really good hardware design. I've been using the business-class Latitudes for years now (getting them a few years old off-lease; they're usually pretty lightly used in corporate settings), and they're extremely easy to work on. The old E4600/4610 models were really nice: they had a single captive screw on the back panel. Just loosen it and slide the panel off.

Just looking at the ifixit.com page linked above, the XPS looks very well-designed and easy to work on too, with just 8 screws holding the back panel on, while still being just as thin as a Macbook. It seems like Apple stuff is simply designed specifically to be hard to repair.
Rational numbers are an absolute pain to work with once you perform more than a couple of additions with denominators that are relatively prime.
As I mentioned somewhere else, these loans, are based 100% on bonds, sold on the open market, so the issuer is not loosing money. The issuer “realkredit selskab” just gets a fee.

Who buys the bonds, could be anyone.. banks, pensionfunds, people who need to store money, in an “insured” way.
Could even be our own country. Given that Barr is the son of a CIA scion I'm sure he wouldn't mind if U.S. intelligence agencies were given the power to pick and choose who is electable.
I looked at Doc Martens a long time ago (a decade+) when I was looking for steel-toe non-leather work boots, but none of the vegan Doc Martens boots have steel/composite toe protection. I just checked again, and I think that's still the case.

I've been rocking Bogs Turf Stompers for the last five years or so, but they've been discontinued I think (at least the steel toe version has been).

Anyone else have good luck with non-leather steel/composite toe lace up workboots?
Actually you can 3-D print a set of TSA keys now.

https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys
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"And whatever happened to the free market?"

In Texas? With regard to fossil fuels? Oil owns the government in Texas, and the market is regulated to suit them.
I remember the dot-com crash of 2001 and seeing companies close so fast, they didn’t their employees a final paychecks; I remember one day, after the dot-com collapse a position I was qualified for got filled within three hours.

As someone who has seen this before, things are looking ominous: The stock market drop of late 2018 reminded me of the stock market drop we had in 2000, about a year before everything fell apart. The yield curve inversion doesn’t look good, nor does the problems with the German economy. Uber posting a multi-billion dollar loss and Tesla having a hard time getting income remind me of the very same issues during the dot-com bubble, where highly valued companies weren’t actually earning money. Moviepass’s debacle reminds me of Webvan; a company which tried to get VC by having a business model which was hemorrhaging money.

I hope I am wrong, but I predict a tech sector crash in late 2019 or early-to-mid 2020.
Whole Foods sold itself to Amazon because they were starting to see a market that prefers alternatives. Prices had to come down for it to survive, and you can't lower prices on expensive product.

And that's assuming product quality is really lower. The only evidence of that I've seen is anecdata.
“I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge”
You plug those in and epoxy them so they can never be removed.
No. Have you ever hard a joke that is racist or sexist but still made you laugh in spite of yourself?
How were they determining if a model was banned? Was it serial number, Click "About This Mac", outward appearance, or some other method?
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Hang on, how do you store that fraction in 16 bits?

The naive way, 8 bits each for numerator and denominator, doesn’t work as 355 is too big.
>Then when the Fed inevitably rides to the rescue
For all your education you are still a fool
This response is exactly what I'm talking about. The conversation about allowing government access to private conversations is already addressed by court precedence.

The weakening of encryption, which may allow bad actors to exploit what the government has access to, is the actual discussion that lawmakers are considering.

People have a real hard time with coming to terms with the powers that police have. Those are not in question though. You can get mad about it, downvote me, but powerful law enforcement is a fact of modern life and it's not going away. In the US, you'd need a constitutional amendment, and there's no one calling for it, it's not an issue on any of the major parties platforms.
And we've known this for some time, in other areas:

>Scientists recorded a daily rate of 365 microplastic particles per square meter falling from the sky in the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/micro...
>that are nothing worth fighting for to begin with

Frankly, air conditioning alone is worth fighting for. The wealth and comfort generated by our carbon-spewing economy is the greatest achievement in mankind's history - and developing nations reaching towards it would be right to fight for it.

Having to make the kind of far-reaching sacrifices needed to prevent climate change at this late stage would (if we actually did it) be among the greatest tragedies in human history, second only to the tragedy of what will happen if we don't.
That's a very simplistic view of economics. The US is the world's largest market for just about everything. It creates enough wealth domestically that its citizens can afford to buy from other countries without bankrupting themselves or the nation. Read up on GDP, fractional banking, stock issuance, sovereign debt, oil as a commodity, and reserve currency.
And yes, the negative interest rate at the Danish central bank does translate to negative interest rates for deposits. Not yet for consumers, but corporate accounts have negative rates.
Indeed, Rebol was groundbreaking in so many ways. Hard for some to understand, but for those whose brains have receptors for it there is nothing quite like it. Working in other langs can be hard once you're used to Rebol, because some things seem so obvious that you can't see why other langs don't do it.

I'm part of Team Red, working on Rebol's successor (https://www.red-lang.org/). We have a number of old Rebolers, but also a lot of new faces, and we're having a great time carrying the torch forward. We still have a lot of work to do, but by the end of the year we should have feature parity with R2, not to mention all the new features Red has, like a compiler, reactive system, Android support, and native GUIs.
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Corporations are legal persons, which is a legal designation and a sort of fiction. Humans are natural persons, which is both a legal reality and an actual reality. If someone says "I'm a person, corporations aren't" they're definitely talking about natural personhood, in which case they're completely correct.

"Humans and corporations are both persons" is kind of facile- corporations don't have quite the same set of rights that humans do.
It doesn't move anything, but it does mean that things that are now far away used to be closer, and therefore had the ability to affect us, but now don't.

Not that it matters, because the speed of light is still the limit: if they could influence us when they were closer, that would have happened by now.
Pythagorean Tuning
I'm sadly now convinced that that approach only works for "simple" concepts. For instance I am yet to find a single book, course or teacher that can explain measure theory in a way that cultivates intuition.
> What we are seeing is the investment community's realization this might not be true.

As Rick Wilson says... "Everything Trump Touches Dies".
Looks to be business Amex Plat only for 1 year of free WeWork.
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The stores look nicer at least. Great lighting!
https://susam.in/

On technology, mathematics, etc.
They broke the 4th Amendment into 300 million pieces, lied about it to congress, got caught by Snowden, got locked out by the nerds, and now they don't merely want back in, they want a key to the back door for the express purpose of continuing to break the rules they swore to uphold! The mind boggles.

Who do I (continue to) donate to in order to express my opinion that this is inexcusable? EFF?
this guy one up'd madoff. took investor money, bought hard assets and now charging those investors rent. haha, dude should be in jail
"project veritas" flags

if you want to see what kind of things they get up too.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/acorn-foe-james-okeefe-sought-t...
See I always thought WeWork's issues were location related, that the real estate costs were just so massive. Just look at their NYC locations, they have the entirety of the top floor of the Fulton st station, it's gorgeous but seemingly very expensive to rent, I'm sure the crazy busy small Shake Shack downstairs makes a month's worth of the (Upstairs) WeWork's payments every week. But you're right, the other more enclosed locations (like 85 broad) are more comfortable too.
Reframing or not, it doesn't matter. With zero choice, they could frame it as "you'll pay us $1000/mo and you'll stop complaining or it'll be $1500" and people would still buy it because the alternative isn't a competitor... it's no Internet service at all.

They don't bother wording it nicer because they don't have to. There's no competition.
Nicely put, but a real drunken master doesn't get repeatedly decked. Look at trump's financial record, that should have been quite enough (6 bankruptcies was it?)

Those who were fooled, were fooled because they chose to be.
It wouldn't be 99.8%, it had a 99.8% loss, so it was almost a hundred times overvalued, if nothing else caused the drop (which isn't plausible, but still).
For one thing, inverted yield curves are bad for banks and for investors who do the same thing as banks.

That is, the main thing banks do is borrow short-term (demand deposits, 2-year CD) and lend long-term (5 year car loan, 30 year fixed mortgage.) Conventionally long-term interest rates are more than short-term interest rates so you can make money this way.

With an inverted yield curve you can't make money that way.

Since banks are important to the flow of capital in the economy, something that hurts the banks can hurt the wider economy.
Yes, both Android and iOS respect carrier policies for this. There's a carrier-configuration bundle loaded from the carrier which can set a bunch of things, including the access point names (APNs) for data. The carrier can choose to set separate APNs for mobile data and tethered data, and can choose whether to lock those settings or make them user-editable.

If you root the phone, of course, you can just change the tethering APN to the data APN, but I don't believe current versions of either Android or iOS let users do it without rooting, if your carrier has marked it non-editable. An Apple support page notes that you "can only edit or view your APN on your iPhone and iPad if your carrier allows it": https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201699.
To be clear, in the statement of the conjecture, we do not need f(q) to be a polynomial or “nice” function of q like 1/q or 1/q^2 — it may not even be an increasing function of q (so statements like “we want f(q) not to decrease much faster than 1/q^2” can be a bit misleading) — one can have arbitrary functions like, say, specifying that f(12)=1/4, f(20)=1/8, and for other q, f(q) = {0 if q is a multiple of 7 (so basically such denominators are never allowed), 1/3 if q does not contain the digit 9, 1/(q log q) otherwise}, etc. I imagine the fact that the proof has to work with arbitrary functions was part of the difficulty.
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If only the super wealthy could create large companies... I'm not sure things would be a lot better. Indeed, I could imagine things being significantly worse.

This is an interesting book looking at how legal structures may have held back otherwise very advanced cultures in the middle east:

https://www.economist.com/business/2011/01/27/the-crescent-a...

It refers to this book:

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9273.html
We don't live in medieval times. Trump is not a good human being, I don't like him one bit, but he's sane (I would go as far as to call him cunning) and democratically elected.

Comparing him to insane kings from the 18th century just gets people to chuckle and move on, sweeping deeper critical thought under the rug.

To call him stupid or mad ends any line of further inquiry into why he does the things he does, and that to my mind is very, very dangerous.
If we wanted a pay to play model, fuel tax is a great idea. But based on the breakdown of my city's funding, basically none of the roads are paid for by it.

The poor sap at the beginning of the road absolutely pays an equal amount. It's actually an interesting problem I'll try not to tangent on. You've got a road and each person needs a certain fraction of it. How do you equitably fund the road?
Founding fathers had no way of knowing of the current state of affairs, technologically speaking.

Imagine billions of unbreakable safes containing secret messages to and from anyone globally, instantly transported to anywhere in the world.

Like, dude, anyone with the appropriate security clearance that is aware of the implications of the encryption status quo isn’t spending time posting here.
Yep, that happened to me in a DC airport. American service is horrible.

By contrast, when I was trying to board my plane in Tokyo to return to the US, I again forgot to empty my water bottle, and was already through the line. The woman just asked if she could dump it, and she did: they had special containers there for the express purpose of dumping people's disallowed liquids. Of course, American security can't be bothered to implement a common-sense measure like this.
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Sounds like confirmation bias.
My thoughts exactly, and i come from a country where 1Gbps is pretty standard.
The question was specifically "Would people be happy with" which also assumes that they would be happy with a reframing, but they are, in fact, not happy with that price at all.
is there a hash for fingerprints?
Sure. But this might also be baked in.

In 2008, you had a major failure (within days) of Lehaman Brothers and some major financial institutions, all were a complete surprise.

A recession in china (controlled recession) might actually be a good thing overall.
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I suppose that means Gutenberg is coming to tumblr?
I agree with this. There are ways to handle the adult stuff from different angles. I am guessing some people are disagreeing with 'postponing it's demise' -since it's possible to keep chunks of it going with the niches that are there... but I agree with the demise statement. If a stadium use to have 100 million visitors a day and changes to only handle 20 million a day - it is no longer what it once was.

I imagine parts of tumble can be useful for micro-blogging onboarding - their signup process and get to posting process was always better than everyone else in my experience. This can be valuable to automattic / WP.

I could even imagine pushing little tumblr powered niche communities for places like Disney / that are walled from the rest of the networks..

However ejecting the adult content sharing was also a terrible thing not just for expression and sharing, but curating different flows of interests. Tumblr actually showed groups of posts that would curate individual's discovery of erotic and interesting portrayals of erotic imagery - to see these mini books curated by different people - for the people who saw them, it gave you a different perspective of things people might like - one that was not curated by the commercial porn industry, one that did not a/b test for most shocking to get attention / clicks.

Taking those options away is more than a loss of millions of posts per day - it's a loss for humanity in seeing and considering alternative views of beauty.

On top of the, conversations that could be had and knowledge shared around different sexual subjects that are impossible via fbk and the like.

Removing the adult access is almost like buying a couple chains of worldwide bookstores and removing access to all the romance and erotica stories - so it's easier to be a hosting company... however this is leaving a huge hole in global learning and sharing - and it's leaving those folks who may have benefited from different ways of learning and sharing - it's leaving them to the commercial wolves who are willing to fight the censors and other issues that add to the expense of hosting adult.

Which leaves us with commercial producers and the race to the bottom / make a buck any way with a/b filtered click bait stuff that is taking over. It's a loss for humanity truly.
The headline is pretty misleading and I have not seen people in the seller community interpret it in this way. SBA is just a different way to sell. They're not getting rid of the other options. It can be a good option for some kinds of brands. You would probably not pick the option otherwise.

Also big nitpick here: gray market has a specific definition and this author misuses the term. The sellers he refers to are not necessarily selling gray market products. Another inaccuracy is that you win the buy box by having the lowest price. This is not true. Any experienced Amazon person could tell you that it is a blend of price, fulfillment method (prime or not), delivery latency (is this offer for a product that is in a warehouse physically close to you), and seller feedback rating.

SBA is actually a good idea from Amazon and they even put in some volatility protections for people who enroll. It is also a good alternative to the Vendor program with some of the benefits without some of its headaches.

If you look at it from the perspective of it being a better alternative to Vendor for some brands, it makes a lot more sense. It is not pitched to conventional sellers who stock tons of brands. It's pitched to brands who want to sell direct to consumer on Amazon. Historically Vendors have also gotten the kinds of indirect marketing benefits that are being pitched to new users of SBA, so even that is not actually a big change.

For example, Vendor products (those shipped and sold by Amazon.com) have always received a massive buy box benefit even if the price is not the lowest. In the weighted buy box system Amazon has always assigned itself a massive bonus score. So in that there is not much that is changing.

Naturally, "incremental bureaucratic change pitched to brands as a middle ground between two existing bureaucratic programs at gargantuan mega-company pitched to other faceless corporations" is not that interesting of an article. This type of opt-in program would work for a very specific type of company and isn't really indicative of a big upcoming change of how the whole thing works.
Many amazon basics products are just white labeled products. Amazon isn't actually spinning up assembly lines
Nothing last forever, one strategy is you milk it as much as you can till it dries then move on to the next endeavors.
Retirement savings, IRAs, and pensions tend to make many people minor owners of capital.
Does this put Automattic into the ad business? Or were they already there?
Great idea chap but a word of caution - don't spend any money advertising in the UK. The weather here is generally hot, sunny, raining - mild chance of thunderstorm, hail and snow with a 50% chance of wind. Good luck.
Including their own. How soon before the government is utilizing its security apparatus to blackmail its own wealthy and powerful?
Tesla differs because they no-longer make reasonable profits on the Model 3 and the better build and more cohesive design of the 3 has eaten the S & X sales.
>You can get mad about it, downvote me, but powerful law enforcement is a fact of modern life and it's not going away

You're right. The US, China, Russia, and many other authoritarian regimes and politicians are working on further militarizing law enforcement and chipping away at the protections of citizens, such as supporting backdoors in encryption. Not a world I want to live in
> humans are already natural optimizers

This right here. Most humans will do whatever they can to achieve minimal work. However, they aren't great at gathering all the necessary data and often find local maxima, so there is still some value in "AI augmentation".
Does Tumblr run its own and network?
He made billions of dollars in real estate and other industries, then when on to become POTUS.

HOW CAN ONE MAN BE SO INCOMPETENT!?!
I'd like to see a similar feature on our extermination of the Native Americans.
this isn't free money
If I understood you right, Lisp was not directly inspired by lambda calculus, but from McCarthy's own research into recursive functions where he found that the three primary functions can cover the whole of computation.

What I'm extrapolating from this is that McCarthy's ideas are similar in implication to Lambda Calculus where you can define computation with just function abstraction and application, and use Peano numbers to represent data. Both approaches end up creating a purely functional way to write programs.

Would that be correct? I also wonder whether there is anything we can take away from this knowledge that is applicable to programming or how we look at it?
This is the greatest threat. Existing administration hacks into their opponents digital devices and then exposes all of their secrets to the world. This ensures that the party in power never loses an election again.
Microsofts own Gears of War 4 is 133GB.
It was a way to compare the size of that data. Either way, I’m paying for a speed, and the Internet companies can more than support that level of data in major cities. With the amount of subsidies this kind of infrastructure gets, it’s absolute bootlicking to defend a cap as low as 1TB.
The hyper growth of the dot-com crash was way different than today. Are there companies that are outrageously unprofitable today and over-valued? Yes. But it's nowhere near the dot-com hysteria. I doubt a tech sector 'crash' is going to occur but I wouldn't be surprised if a correction happens.
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Yeah, the Karen/Chad/Becky phenomenon really makes me cringe. You'd think with recent culture shifts towards "wholesomeness" and "acceptance", turning someone's name into an insult wouldn't have caught on.
I guess there are arcade games like that at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40benG6nSV0
In some countries even with two or three providers you get a lot faster internet connections without limits.
For proofs, could you recommend any good resources for a beginner? Is there a 'beginner proof' that's great to start with?

I figured out I actually like maths waaaay after I'd left uni. From that time at uni I have a vague memory of proofs being something like a whiteboard full of equations that I got lost somewhere in.

I have a vague feeling that what I'm thinking of is 'formal proofs', but I'm not sure.
AT&T and T-Mobile will now verify phone calls between their networks
> Danish mortgage bonds are effectively guaranteed by the Danish state

I don't think that's true? Can you explain what you mean? It's probably true that a total collapse won't be tolerated, just like a total collapse of the banking sector wouldn't be tolerated.