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I used to live in the City of London. I was invited to one of their resident's association meetings.

They some senior people in the City of London government was clear that they had to balance the desires of the residents with those of employers/employees. Otherwise residents (<10,000) would have significant sway over employees (>300,000).

Its not some weird dystopian future. It simply makes sense to listen to those who live and work in the City.
Really? Attack me personally? Is that your preferred 'argument'?

The fact is, Iowa produces more energy by wind that many other states, including California. Is that in dispute? Citation please.
I strongly disagree with the premise of this article. First of all, Apple isn’t the only company doing keynotes–most tech companies have yearly presentations, and many are more cringy than Apple’s. Sure, there’s always some video game person who’s a bit too excited about the game they’re demoing, but that’s nothing new. Oh, and by the way, lumping in random current events (iPhone zero days, tech walkouts) doesn’t help the argument, it just seems like a reach for things to throw at Apple. And FWIW, Apple almost always has a couple of slides at the beginning that addresses the concerns brought about diversity and the environment; Tim Cook specifically mentioned that he’s skipping them this time. If you don’t like the keynote, don’t watch it: Apple isn’t always going to release a new iPhone, and just because this event was a bit more on the boring side doesn’t mean they should just stop doing them.
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Physical Apple Store purchases too - https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/sales-policies/ret...

Apple integrates their online store with their B&M locations so closely it really wouldn't make any sense for them to have different return policies.
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The Apple keynotes were created to present, and build hype around, something new. Some new product, or feature, or service, that would supposedly change the way an Apple user would interact with the world.

Of the announcements from this most recent keynote, what was new? The third camera on the iPhone? The update of the main series iPads to use the "Pro" look? A new screen in the Watch? A couple games and a tv show?

These keynotes stopped being relevant when Apple stopped producing anything keynote-worthy. They're just routine at this point.
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seems like the calm before the storm to me. Apple's next big thing is probably AR, and once we get to MVP on that tech every year will likely bring similar leaps akin to the early iPhone launches.
I am not a physicist or a mathematician, but wouldn't a virtual particle be more or less what I'm talking about? They exist for a limited time because they are producing interference with our universe's 'wave' but they don't stick around because they are not at a harmonic frequency. Likewise they cannot have a precisely defined energy or momentum because they break our frame of reference by not being at a harmonic frequency.
Sorry this doesnt fly.

I think at best we can conclude that the trading methods used by the sample are ineffective for day trading in Brazil. Now if their methods are similar to that of the population, one may be able to conclude that common day trade methods are unsustainable within the brazilian market
Oke. Good.This is great resource! I found codeflow is interesting but it seems a dead project.
Glancing at the abstract it looks like 97% lose money, what larger number in a more suitable sample size would make a difference?

I've heard low single digits of traders and investors deliver Alpha. Impossible? no. Highly efficent? Yes
I never got bullied for not having a phone. I used an iPod that I could text with on wifi.

Kids will just find a workaround.
I think incremental updates are ok. No need to watch the stream if not interested!
Why such a complicated transfer chain just to pay salaries? In my country you just export a bank file from your payroll system and that's it.
Doesn't really matter, it concerns WHILE you work for Uber. OR for Lyft. People can have multiple jobs.
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Pretty cool idea, but does this solution actually give users ownership of their identity?
Presumably this strategy would land the operators in jail if enough of their traders successfully predicted a large enough market move.
Mechanical Keyboards - https://geekhack.org
Watches - https://forums.watchuseek.com/
Role Playing (Video) Games - https://rpgcodex.net/forums
Minecraft - https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums
Linux - https://www.linuxquestions.org/
Apple/Mac - https://forums.macrumors.com/
Biking - https://www.bikeforums.net &
https://forum.bikeradar.com/

Honestly, just pick one of your hobbies and go down the google rabbit hole. Many forums still survive today for archival purposes and most hobbies have very active independent forums.

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I'll admit I fell into the Reddit hole in the early 2010s and while I think it has some value and I have discovered some cool communities I don't think I ever would have known about otherwise, I do miss the "pre-reddit" internet with more independent communities.

Lots of small groups seem to be migrating to Facebook as well - which really sucks because the facebook groups interface sucks as a traditional discussion forum.
> Depends a lot on how you ask the question. The pro-EU governments are working to turn EU into a superstate. The great majority of people don’t want that.

Please show evidence of that statement. I'm not seeing anyone really pushing for federalism, in fact quite the opposite, holding the current group of countries model but with stronger ECB (bank) and ECJ (court) to prevent failures like Greece and Spain had.

Some slight moves to harmonize trade laws have happened, but not a lot. Some more in banking laws.
The clever thing about these kinds of jokes as when it happens in politics is, they manage to mock two groups of people such that each group reads the joke and tends to laugh because they infer it as poking fun at the other group.
A little before digital actors replace real life actors. And I don't mean de-aging or bringing actors back from the dead using previous footage, but a system you can give a script and some direction to and will output a authentic performance.

Well after we get a best selling book series that's completely written by a bit of software.

So, not very soon.
The NHS provides and pays for NHS services.

One can also buy medical care privately, outside of the NHS - paid for either with cash, or by private medical insurance (paid for either with cash, or by your employer)

Services outside of the NHS may have more luxurious facilities, shorter waiting lists, and more flexible appointment times. Some doctors will do both NHS work and private work.

If you need fertility treatment, a physiotherapist to look at your sport injury, speech therapy, or a 10 minute doctor's consultation over video chat at 7pm, the private medical system can provide that.

On the other hand, many services are unavailable outside the NHS; there are no private ambulances or accident-and-emergency facilities.
No, I know what the eurodollar is. The power of London over the "eurodollar" at the time was that the businesses and banks in Europe were doing business locally in their domestic currencies (eg Italian Liras) which did not have any international clout. These businesses and banks were effectively forced to go through London Eurodollars to operate internationally to minimize risk. With the introduction of the Euro, none of that matters anymore and London has no power.
I did software contracting for a while. It’s certainly appropriate to define parameters like “use language x, code these features, by this deadline and keep a synchronized copy of the code in this repo.”

You can’t set hours and direct particular tasks day to day.
https://www.phantasytour.com is one of my favorites. Phish in particular has a very vibrant community, if you enjoy their music you can find lots of other people who are passionate about them on just about any social network. For people who are easily offended there is also a forum on phish.net that prefers to avoid hostile conversations. Phantasy Tour has a lot of obscene discussions that most people would find offensive but is tolerated on this forum.
Mmm I think you get the best of all worlds (as the hiring company) with part timers.

- <30 hours/week so no benefits
- you can only work in these hours
- take it or leave it cause we now can remove your ability to work for any other times

No marginal costs outside the min wage (no benefits) and honestly you don’t want more hours unless they are explicitly in the time and place you want them.
The US will not allow you to renounce without presenting yourself in a embassy in a foreign country and they can choose to not accept your renunciation. However, statelessness is a possibility.

Here is a full rundown of the process: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-renounce-us-citizensh...
The expected long-term effects of each anticipated Brexit scenario weighted by the current perception of the likelihood of each should be, sure.

OTOH, as there is considerable and evolving uncertainty about even the short-term Brexit prospects (as in, will the UK leave, and if so when and on what terms), estimates of the likelihood of various long-term scenarios are likely to also be in considerable flux,even before considering potential evolution in estimates of the effects of each potential scenario.

“The market knows the future and has already completely priced it in” is disproved every time the market moves, but people still like to treat it as some kind of deep wisdom.
I only read the comments 99% of the time. This is usually because there are more interesting insights in the comments than in the post itself, and usually at least one person finds a mistake that renders the entire post nullified in its teachings. This may be a methodological error in a research article, a financial error in a business article, and so on.

In the off chance that commentors say it's good enough to read, I skim it, and very rarely, I will read it in depth.
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There is a crucial difference; ebay Sellers can pick their customers. They can perform the same sale outside ebay. Customers can pick who to buy an item from. Ebay doesn't take a cut of the sale either, they take a charge for displaying the item on their store page, which the vendor also has to advertise and design on their own.
Macmillan is probably withholding taxes for him. If he publishes directly on amazon, they would withhold 30% and send it to the IRS.
I think the "for a living" is really about beating it longer term and the income comes in a sustainable fashion.

Even someone beating a casino I would think would get some big payouts to live on long term... but that casnio is gonna notice and shut down that "living" or just ban you. In that sense you're not doing it "for a living" as much as hoping to make enough money in a short span to maybe last longer term.

Now maybe they find new ways to beat the casino but to do it sustainability is questionable.

So beating the casino seems different than "for a living" IMO.
One-child policies could solve the problem and it's as taboo as bug-eating, yet it receives barely any coverage
I taught myself the techniques of speed reading as a kid over 50 years ago. It didn’t really help. Fiction has too many characters and twists and turns; I can’t really read it much faster than 300 wpm or I miss something.

I’m a very fast reader of non-fiction (I have several thousand technical books). However, I don’t really read every book word for word. After reading a couple of books on algorithms for example, it’s possible to skim through the next one only looking for new subjects, better pictures, or new approaches. I also jump around and read the parts I’m interested in. The result is I have some recollection of what’s in most of my more recent books, and if I need to look something up I can often remember where I saw it in the book—like roughly how far into the text it is and where on the page it was.
Yeah, seems like a bad bet, but still better than day trading judging by the study results.
This is nothing more than a naive random policy search.

Clickbait aside, this is a gross misrepresentation of what reinforcement learning is.
Everyone who I've personally known do these jobs only do it temporarily just to make ends meet between real jobs. It doesn't matter how shitty the benefits are if you're going to get kicked out on the street because you missed the rent/mortgage payment. Maybe some people do it "for a living" but I bet most are between real opportunities or making some money for Christmas/vacation/etc
There's enough volatility and turnonver in Twitter's stock that anyone who made a few single comma trades wouldn't ever be directly identified.

Buy some options several days in advance, drop the tweet, then sell right when volume shoots through the roof.
HN won't let you edit a comment after a certain amount of time has passed, thus a second reply with the links.
I completely agree with your statement. This is fortune for few.
> "worlds" are massively-complicated entanglements and superpositions within that wave function, of which we—for some reason—can only observe one position of that superposition.

Is the collapse of the wave function related to consciousness? How would we construct a test to verify that?
Your usage of "many outcomes" is what may be causing contention/confusion for those looking for answers in what is described by the mathematical equations, and scientific theories. If you want to justify "many outcomes" on metaphysical grounds, that is not a scientific conversation.

Also "metaphysical fact" is a questionable term.
Confused. Consider a light beam with only one photon at a time (very dim) measured by a photoreceptor. Put a 2nd photoreceptor after the first - it detects no photons.

So detecting the first, definitely 'collapsed the wave function'. This is not an unknown result in physics.
I didn't have a case on my 3GS, nor my 4S, nor my 5S. I dropped them all many times and never had anything more thank a couple of nicks.

Tried to do the same with my 6S, where the glass goes over the edge of the phone. Cracked the screen 3 times, got a thin case. When I decided I wanted to upgrade to an XS rather than repair the screen again, the wife said only if you get a proper case; and I had a hard time disagreeing with her.

I'm positive that Apple could design a phone smaller than the combined size of the XS a good case, which would handle the drops I subject my phone to occasionally just fine. It would be a little thicker and less pretty than the current phone without a case, but much less thick and much less ugly than the current phone with a case.
The Shacktac forum for that Arma 3 community, though you have to be a member to use it.

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this. the public in US is so easily brainwashed it is actually very scary. Having lived in an oppressive state USSR and now in USA I find too many alarming similarities :(
What a bizarre article. This could have just as easily been written about Google or Samsung or any other smartphone manufacturer.

The reason Apple should cease keynotes, from what I can parse from the vague and scattershot article, is the following:

* The Frogger demo was weird and out-of-touch

* "It feels a little obscene to gather to worship a $1,000 phone"

* Apple execs tout that new iPads are made with 100% recycled aluminum, whereas Microsoft and Amazon employees are staging climate change walkouts

* The event seemed "eerily calm", like a "super chill birthday party" (what?)

* The keynotes used to just appeal to white, middle-aged men, but now they have more women and POC featured

* And, finally: "The company’s flagship product — the iPhone — no longer feels like a piece of the future dropped from into the hands of mere mortals. It feels like, well, a phone, a commodity. And so the whole thing seems gratuitous."

Such a strange article.
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Done at the Genius Bar. I replaced the battery because it was even worse and wild shut down due to not enough voltage. It doesn’t do that anymore, but especially in low signal places it drains very very fast.
Deutsch may believe that. (Heck, I believe it). It's a natural interpretation of the MWI wavefunction. But it is an interpretation, a layer on top of the physical claims, a model - not a mandatory part of MWI. Deutsch may interpret a given wavefunction as describing a particular ensemble of 'tangible' and 'shadow' objects, but someone who interprets that same wavefunction a different way (but agrees on the same wavefunction, and expects it to evolve according to the same laws of quantum mechanics) will still generate the same experimental predictions and, more to the point, still be doing MWI.
That's just a prediction. Currently, legally my question still stands.
DNA computers? I think the answer is “we outclassed them”. At 10nm, transistors are about the size of 10 base-pairs at this point, but much faster and much less error prone.
Never been to the US, but I never had the impression that Americans had more problems with alcohol than, say, Europe (if anything the stereotype goes the opposite way). A quick google search seems to point that Americans die more of alcohol related accidents? That could be just because Americans drive more.
It absolutely does. All we store is an encrypted version of the user's master keychain (the 12-word seed phrase we're trying to eliminate). We can't access that keychain without the user's consent. The user is emailed a copy of this encrypted keychain and can take it with them to any service that supports bip39 seed phrases.

Try getting Google to let you do that ;)
I could be wrong, but I'd posit that if there were a good place for high quality, genuine, and useful online forums out there, HN is one of the last places they would advertise their presence. There very likely are such forums out there, but I'm sure they don't want the internet showing up at their door tomorrow morning. They probably created their little slice of heaven just so that they do not have to deal with the great unwashed masses and a lot of the inanity and incivility that comes with them.

A corollary to that, of course, is that most of the answers we'd get to this question on HN, are likely not the sort of sites for which we are searching. :(
What are the motives for leaking information regarding our actions on foreign soil against foreign citizens? I was a big fan of Snowden until he started doing that. That isn't whistleblowing against Constitutional violations and seemed to indicate a shift in his objectives. It now appears that he is just against US spying at large, which is a perfectly acceptable political opinion to have, but it doesn't justify whistleblowing in a lot of people's minds.
There's already AR on phones, and it's never really taken off. If you need comedy/expensive glasses for it it's always going to be a niche market comprised of people who don't think they look bad. AR is already here for audio (turn by turn directions) but I can't see it taking off visually outside of people such as gamers who are already using it.
A business using this approach is called a Bucket Shop - it's both fairly well-known and explicitly illegal in most places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)
I mean, I don't want to lay all of the blame on the citizenry, but America also leads the world in obesity, anxiety disorders and cocaine use. I understand that correlation doesn't equal causation, but there is a correlation. Personal responsibility has to lie in there, somewhere. It isn't an "all or nothing" equation.

Also, when the US gets compared to these European countries, they are, quite literally, the size of one of our states. It's a tough comparison. Sure, lines can be drawn, but people do have to take into account a difference in scope and culture. It might not be Apples and oranges, but maybe look at it like lemons and oranges?
"It's-a me, DMCA!" springs to mind.

Nintendo doesn't really understand the concept of fan works yet. most corporations would love to have this sort of loyalty.
Ah right, just seems silly then, as he is relying on a hacked DB for the most private part.
Others are pointing out the problem with staffing companies too, but this reminds me of my experience (different countries, so YMMV). This means that even though "The law allows for veil piercing" there's a huge maybe there, companies unloading their liability know this and have great lawyers. So IF a lawsuit gets to the real employer it's only after a LONG legal process, so not worth as much.
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You can't use the 0.1% cases to justify the 90% who will get wrecked financially because of major surgery, cancer treatment, etc because it's so expensive. Medical treatment shouldn't be a for profit business, there has to be a better way, and other countries have a better system (in the sense of doing the greatest good for the most people, and not just the 0.1%) than we do and we can copy the best of them as we will be doing it from scratch.
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People spend so much time patting themselves on the back for electing the First Black President - who was witty, looked leader-ly on TV, and wore a (D) behind his name - that they totally let him off the hook for so many abhorrent policies, like mass surveillance, drone assassinations, and the way he mistreated the biggest whistleblower of our time.

It's so disappointing how few people seem to have complex thoughts about our political system/politicians, and it shows in the ever-decreasing quality of those things as time advances. Bandwagons are dangerous, and it seems we only have bandwagons left.
The keynotes have been boring and almost a parody for a while now, and I'm not sure why anyone (including me) continues to _watch_ them.

But for Apple, they continue to be an amazing marketing platform. 1.5mm were watching the YouTube stream yesterday alone. Why would you ever cutoff that much free marketing?
Add the PostIt by 3M to the list. Failed glue project.
Funny enough Google has great tools for searching within that time period. Snowden broke around Q1 2013 right? So I tried searching from Q4 2012 to Q1 2014 and the first thing that came up on government surveillance was actually this[1].

Which I assume is not what you meant but it's pretty early in the timeline of Snowden's revelations.

Setting the timeline to 2012-01-01 - 2013-07-03 is just before Greenwald broke Snowden's story and those results are very different.

Interspersed are results that were likely updated in Google's index after july 3rd so there are some false positives so to speak.

You'd have to browse more of those results. I've only got 3 pages in.[2]

Edit: Actually this IAmA from Cory Doctorow could be it.[3] He's definitely in the know about what the government is capable of and speaking from that experience. Which pretty much predicts Snowden's revelations.

Of course I remember when AT&T was implicated in mass surveillance by a former employee back around 2004, that story just got lost in the ether.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_...

2. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%22IAmA%22+g...

3. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11bm9i/iam_cory_docto...
> Its probably the hardest way to make money in the world

Just no. Certainly it's not easy. But the hardest? I'd say there is a long list of occupations which most people would consider harder on various dimensions.