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Jared Kushner managed to get into Harvard, and by all accounts, he isn't very bright. It matters how they got in.
What does being vegetarian have to do with telling other people what they should or shouldn't eat?
Thankfully I gave into web/product software quickly before finalizing on game development or special effects/VFX. Highly competitive and don't pay well unless you're top dawg.
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> I don't know this kid's particular case

Perhaps it's best to withhold outrage until you do.

> I find it pretty irritating that whenever people want to discuss a potential direct consequence of something a politician did, people immediately act like it's unfair to start talking about things until we have "all the facts".

I find it irritating when someone takes a one-sided account of a developing situation and reflexively uses it to attack their villain du-jour.

> does that mean we shouldn't be discussing potential negative consequences of bad legislation?

You weren't discussing bad legislation, just calling the sitting President a racist for the deportation, for which we don't have full details, which has also been a common feature of a number of prior administrations.

You're not discussing anything, you're ranting and attacking.
I see. I didn't really think about that, my line of thought has always been that there's no one like me so of course there's deep differences between how people think.

Is this where the "millennial snowflake" idea comes in?
One of the most insidious effects of internet news in general and social media in particular is that we latch to information bubbles where people spread material painting "the other" in the worst possible view. It is entirely possible that u/sprafa news feed is a place where 90% of Pepe-related content does consist of "look at what those evil racists are peddling all day long" outrage based like-bait.

The sad part is the u/sprafa may well be unable to reconcile the perspective of what he saw with his own eyes with the perspective of others, in which Pepe is merely an avatar of one's own benign emotion.
There is a healthy margin on every car they sell. They just invested so much that they are still not making a profit. The way I'm reading it is that they can make a profit if they sell them at 45k, but they rather sell them at 35k to sell MORE. Expansion has a cost, and it's the reason why they're not making a profit.
How will they recover from this devastating blow?
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It's no longer supported, and the last released version is so old it's likely unsafe.
I'm not an expert on global agriculture, but a lot of the famous Texas cattle ranches can basically only grow grass. If the natural state of the land is brush that only goes up to your ankles you aren't going to feed much other than grazers off it. The efficient solution would be to use the good land to grow food and the rest of the land to feed livestock, and that's what tends to happen (feedlot factory farms fueled by cereal crops notwithstanding).
It's like they listened to This American Life and thought "This would be so much better with less chit chat and more fun sound effects!"
Do you think UK should be split as well? Maybe England should stop bankrolling Scotland and NR? Make England Great Again?

I don't think anyone wants the EU to become another Soviet Union. EU believers want a United States of Europe(more or less).

Small might be beautiful but it's weak. It goes with the wind. (i.e with the U.S, China, Russia). Brexit will only move UK closer to the US than to the continental Europe.

U.S doesn't use the same "with us" or "against policy", right? I heard U.S doesn't impose sanctions due various disagreements either... good luck! You forgot the Suez Crisis so fast!
> a single aboveground space cost $27,000

How did we get into this situation? According to this https://www.angieslist.com/articles/how-much-does-concrete-d... a "high-end" contractor charges at most $10 per square foot to build a concrete driveway, i.e. $2000 for a 200 sq ft parking space. Where does the other $25,000 go?
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Yup. Think I've heard them all over the course of 20 years.

The obvious explanation is that people don't like the implication that their behaviour is unethical and look for clever outs. Rather than simply owning that benefits > costs from their point of view (a la 'I like bacon too much').

Of course questioning motivations is not a point to be made in an argument. However it is an entirely satisfactory Bayesian explanation of why so many people take the other side of the argument with such force.
"Are...are we the baddies?"

Yes, you are. You are part of the system which tracks the consumer laity.
As Google has recently proven steering clear of the politically woke is probably the right move anyways.
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There's a significant (IMHO) difference in CPU between the Air (2 core i5-8210Y) and the 13" Pro (4 core i5-8279U).
I agree that the claim about "food value" is in need of rewording, but it's context makes it clear that we're talking the total number of meals that the ecology of the region can provide, and not the percentage of any given meal that happens to be bioavailable.

It's not about running faster than your vegetarian rival, it's about whether your tribe collapses because there isn't enough food.

Yeah, not all plant matter is food for humans, but if you only had, say, 100 square miles, and you wanted it to support as many humans as possible, how would you allocate resources between hunting and gathering?

The point is not that one choice is better than the other, it's that those who happened to make the right choice at the right time were the ones that survived.
> This is just completely false. All meat consumed is bioavailable protein and nutrients.

I think you're missing the point entirely. It's about the calories needed to feed the animal, and the 10:1 ratio is the usual number quoted for this.
lifestyles are typically packaged with identities, which are packaged with values
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I don't think that anyone is calling for a college admissions department to be the sole arbiter of who is good in the world. Mind you, if I had to choose between a college admissions department and US immigration officials as the sole arbiter of who is good in the world, I suspect that US immigration officials would probably not be getting the call.
What I meant was, could you cite the numbers and math you are arriving at that tell you this? The 10-K I'm seeing says they make around $200M/year from desktop TurboTax and $2.2B from Mint and other services, and that's just with 20 million Mint users. That seems plenty to me.
“Humans would have never evolved the ability to eat meat if it didn't confer a natural advantage over foragers.”

Is this really true though about evolution in general. Evolution happens because of adaptations due to selective pressures. This doesn’t necessarily mean that evolutionary changes are beneficial.
Installers for MacOS and Windows are piss easy. Hell, you don't even actually need installers for either, as both OSs support portable applications. I never even bother to make windows installers because you can just unzip to a folder and be done. If I ever distributed anything for Linux, I'd use AppImage to the same effect.
Confused. This happens all the time. Sperm banks. They don't hand out random stuff. There's a rigorous screening and selection process.
Those vast amounts of land usually don't have viable soil for multi-year agriculture. Arable land is limited
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> doesn't scale to high population densities

that's where we are right now so anything that doesn't scale is practically irrelevant
> That may be the case in Germany. In the US, the exact opposite is nearly universally true.

Any data on that?

At least the first Google results I find indicate a very similar correlation. If I believe this
https://www.sightline.org/2012/03/08/how-income-and-neighbor...
then definitely there's a connection between "richer" and "more driving", though there's a bit of plateauing (i.e. the rich don't drive more than the middle income), but the poor definitely drive fewer.
Why use anonymous functions for control flow? Nearly any other language would either return an error or throw an exception.
Yeah, I guess you can get a limited sort of operator overloading by building it out of row polymorphism. That doesn't solve the most common use-case of operator overloading, though, which is allowing the same operators to work on floats and ints, because it only works on objects.
I think this is the issue my wife has. She sees me at home and seems to think, well, maybe I can interrupt him just this once, and it happens a few times a day. I feel like I get more done in less time, but I also get less time, what with taking care of random errands.

When I worked on the office, she kept complaining that I came home too late (8 hours + ~1 hour commute). Now she complains when I work too late, but I work late because of the interruptions.

I've considered renting an office in my city, which would mean a ~5 minute commute by bicycle. This should help solve most of the issues we have, since I can be physically away, but not that far away. When I talk to her, things get better for a little while, but it's not really a permanent solution. I could probably make it work with 2-3 days in the office and work at home the other days.
There is a logic to that and the logic is partially found among Luddites and will continue to "annoy" us. In that technology in a hierarchical civilization like ours is highly dis-empowering and supports those at the top of the hierarchy.

Not to mention all the science which is bullshit and simply made as justification for funding. And the culture that goes with it which is often parodied on Reddit on /r/iamverysmart.

The Sociology of knowledge and science in our civilization leaves much to be desired in terms of distribution of power.

All the various -isms are each their own religion with their own power dynamics. Their truth is in many ways questionable and its a question as to whether its power structure is not mostly make belief propped up by power and money to further its own agenda.

Scientism, new atheism, whatever you want to call it is really a side show. James Lindsay, Dawkins, etc. don't have any real power. They are just a sideshow to the real power plays that go on in the background.
I wish you could whitelist instead of just having a black or white option. My SO and parents I can trust to inject events (keeping track of stuff they've planned but I forgot is 90% of my use of Google Calendar honestly) but now that spammers have discovered Calendar as another place to spam/phish it's less hands off.
I found the same. It says it makes it fun, but what specifically does the software do differently to justify this statement.
Let’s wait and see if it’s another Autonomy
>This is a complete delusion.

Um, no. It's objective fact. Whether it's a video game or R&D on drugs or semiconductors, it does in fact require the expending of limited resources. Are you for real? This stuff doesn't pop into existence out of thin air.

>This is what about Goebbels said, "the bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe in."

Ah yes going the Nazi quote angle, always the sign of someone who is definitely not a crackpot.

>1. Set up a machine that will "destroy" the IP value of something by copying it.

>2. Make it do so a billion times, and watch if the company whose IP being "infringed" goes bankrupt.

Did you, you know, actually READ anything I wrote, including the very first sentence that you yourself quoted? Because what you just described is information replication, which as I wrote in, again, that very sentence you quoted, is effectively free. It does not cover the step 0 of GENERATING that information to be copied in the first place. That's the problem part, which IP attempts to solve by hacking on synthetic limits on the unlimited part of the equation to handle allocation to the limited part.

>What was the last "big thing" an American company ever came with?

Basically the entire semiconductor and software industry? Most modern medicines? Much of modern genetic technology? Reusable rockets? Like, are you for real?

>and it was more than 60 years ago, when no monstrous IP protection regime was in place.

Uh, yeah when it comes to patents yes, IP is about the same as it was 60 years ago, beyond the Republicans continually trying to cut the budget of the PTO. That's part of the problem in fact.

I keep wondering if you're being sarcastic or engaging in satire here yet you seem to be entirely serious, but it's utter nonsense stuff.
I googled it and got a bunch of articles about data breaches of Opera services.

What I understood the GP post to be is that the owners of the browser do shady stuff, which I found no evidence for on Google (or DDG). So was Opera compromised by a third party or is Opera compromised by the first party (malicious owners?).
> If your substrate gets moldy in a week then it would be hard to package and sell it to a customer.

So you're saying I should be selling a substrate service subscription? I like it! MRR here I come!
Monitors dont even come with the same orientation.
Most functions are not invertible.

In modulo arithmetic (numbers wrap around like days of the week, months, hours in a day, or the units column, e.g. mod 10 has numbers 0 to 9, and 9+1=0) we can count them.

There are n^n possible functions (each of the n inputs could map to any n values), but only n! invertible functions (the first input can be to any of n, the second can be to any but the first's, etc (n)(n-1)(n-2)...(1)).

n!/n^n < 1/2 for all n>2

Does this converge to a fraction as n->infinity (i.e. for the naturals)? As a recurrence relation, we have:

n!/n^n = (n-1)!/(n-1)^(n-1) x n(n-1)^(n-1)/n^n

We could change variables to rewrite the factor as (n+1)n^n/(n+1)^(n+1) = n^n/(n+1)^n

Since n+1 converges to n, I think this converges to 1. Meaning that the whole thing converges to something - but working out what it converges to is beyond my abiility.

EDIT Wolfram says the limit is actually 0 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=n%21%2Fn%5En

lim_(n->∞) n^(-n) n! = 0

Reversibility is very rare indeed! At least, with the prior pr density implied from this comception of functions.
I did develop one indie game backend, and I can tell you that it is none of the above. Developers are on tight schedules because games are extremely hard to program and bugs are very common. This causes overpromises and underdeliveries more often than CRUD APIs.

The result is increased hours to make up for mistakes and less raises because of reduced perception of achievements. This same pattern can be observed in any other industry that tries to deliver products which require complex engineering.
Given that a dump on a tenth of an acre goes for a million bucks or more in parts of California, some of that's probably just for the space it takes up.
Soon, activists will start boycotting Microsoft (gov't agencies use Word and Excel), 3M (gov't agencies use Post-it notes), and Charmin (they also buy toilet paper).
Usually I think stratechery is spot on. But though I agree with a lot of points and it ends on a great note, I have some strong disagreements in this one!

(1) Anything loaded from a third party is potentially a tracker until proven otherwise. If you load Google Analytics, Google gets pinged some information about every visitor. Typekit definitely collects tracking data, although they claim it is anonymized and not identifiable. I believe same goes for New Relic, and both share (or sell?) aggregate user data to other parties as far as I know. Etc.

(2) A beneficial outcome from Apple's stance and the privacy debate would be self-hosted analytics and login-type services that don't connect to any third parties. A site like stratchery could pay for a license to use this software, but host it on their own servers, and have a strong privacy policy around what data is recorded/shared.
Aight he might have been wired differently, but there might be a thing or two to ask about their mindset when thinking.
Congrats! You'be created a solution that seems to be viable, if we are to trust the skills of the people you pitched.

The first step is to get a lawyer. The lawyer needs to tell you if you need a business entity. You are dealing with a piece of intellectual property. You don't want them to steal it, modify it, and cut you out of the equation without paying you. If they do that, the contract needs to be clear so that when you sue them, the judge can clearly see how they violated your agreement.

Another option is to sell them the rights to the software for a lump sum payout right now, of monthly payments etc etc etc. This would of course be easier but less profitable.

Another thing to consider is the time duration of the contract. You don't want to give them rights forever-- what happens if they have exclusive rights and they don't sell anything because they are incompetent or lazy? Now you can't sell your own product either, and you make no money.

You hold all the power in this situation :) Send me an email if you need more help and I'd be happy to chat more.

waybetterthansaas@gmail.com
Financing Teslas is already expensive as they don’t subsidize low borrowing rates. Most luxury cars finance at ~2.5% right now and Tesla is around 4%.

It’ll be particularly interesting to see what happens when Tesla starts leasing as luxury cars tend to offer very good leasing terms when compared to the MSRP.
I think there's one key flaw in this, as well as it being fiction. There's a difference between being able to do something once or at very low volumes, and then doing it at scale for production.

So long as you understand the basic principles, you could make an integrated circuit using hand-drawn acetate or glass sheets and some really simple optics. Or ignore integrated circuits and make stuff from discrete components which you made yourself. You only need to care about making complex EUV scanners much, much later on.

In research labs around the world, we make stuff almost completely from scratch all the time. It's costly in terms of labour, and it's doing low volumes with lower tolerances. But it is making real, working stuff. In thousands of companies, research findings are developed into manufacturable products, with a lot of additional development work, optimising and refining.

We already know you can go from most concepts, to research, development and production. We've done it, and will continue to do it, in every field we can think of. I think to assert that we couldn't reinvent every one of the technologies humanity has discovered and developed fails to recognise just how resourceful and ingeneous we can be if we have the drive and opportunity. It might be that some technologies would be harder to reinvent, or would take longer to reinvent, but we're a capable lot and I'd bet we could get up to speed quite quickly given a few hints about what was possible. There are thousands of manufacturing techniques from the last century which we have lost the capability to use. Material quality changes, loss of knowledge and skills through retirement, fires, water damage etc. But we could regain each of them if the need was there. Look at FOGBANK for a recent example of a capability which was lost and regained. It takes time, money and resources, but it's possible.

The main thing we have in today's world which a collapse would eliminate is effectively limitless energy, and redeveloping that would be far harder than any individual technology. They would lack the more easily exploitable resources we already exhausted, and it would take time to overcome that hurdle through additional technological advances. But that is not a hard barrier. They would have to develop alternative sources and work out different strategies. This might delay things, but it wouldn't stop them entirely. We had sophisticated civilisation before the discovery of coal and oil, and electricity. Wind, water, solar and wood were widely used for mechanical and heating purposes long before electricity was discovered.
I think the comment is built from the assumption that vegetarian push their ideas on others around them - like zealots
They cite this paper: http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/HighCost.pdf

The cost of a driveway does not consider excavating the space (or vertically building the space) for the parking spot.
For purposes of guitarists, BBDs are "analog". Some creative pedal makers have taken good advantage of that tie to a clock, and use it to alter fidelity. (I'm not a fan of the BBD sound myself; it gets too dark and wooly too quickly for my taste.)
Every time I get an underpowered developer laptop in the interests of mobility I regret it.
When you do hit the ceiling, you end up doing some wierd workaround e.g. 'I'll just run all my docker on a server'. The sacrifice for the workaround is not accetable long term.

If you need mobility, my suggestion is to get a powerful laptop without caring about mobility much, and a little netbook for road work.
Show HN: How I built design process to add 150 products manually
I am super proud to announce that number of added product to my side project, surpassed 150. Even more proud that every single cover image was carefully prepared by me. From time perspective, that was very important step to have control on the main website and add only visually appealing products.
Let’s have a quick look at my design process:
1 Find an interesting product
2 Open Sketch and prepare a cover image
3 Export to jpg and compress the size. I can recommend uPic for Mac which decreases image size even to -80%
4 Put to Cloudinary
5 Add the product in Swagger
The process lasts from 5 to 15 minutes. That was a long journey and I definitely don’t want to stop :) Next step - 200 products. Fingers crossed.

If you have any question regarding my process - go ahead!

I would like to also hear your overall opinion about my page - https://owwly.com
I'm not sure any scientific insight can be drawn from interviewing a heroin junkie on Abbey St, Dublin, Ireland.
Here’s an update on those predictions: https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2019-january-...
It is an interesting and inspiring read. However, it turned out to be completely wrong, like many (all?) predictive models of history.
I would, but my wife would hate me for it. I just have to rely on good old discipline to get out of bed in the morning.
No there is many indicators that Mossad is the most likely sponsor. His well established link to Ehud Barak the ex-PM who has deep extensive intelligence history is an example. It would be extremely long post to detail all the evidence.

It’s not unreasonable to suspect he successfully compromised both a sitting US president and the son of the Queen of England, and that is only the beginning of the list.

Which intel agency is most likely? Obviously Mossad should be at the top of the list ... but yeah OK let’s remove it, I’m anti-semitic.
More like a governmental agency's predatory tracking and snatching of the exploited who are just trying to work as opposed to going after the corporations that are turning a blind eye to the status of their employees and are unwilling to pay competitive wages is ... Wroonnngg.
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