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You picked up in store because there was free shipping to the sears store in town. You didn't go to the sears store in town because it didn't have very much inventory.

Note that we are talking about small rural towns in the middle of nowhere. When sears started most of the population was either a farmer, or lived in a small town in farm country. If you lived in a large city you could go to a department store downtown and it would have everything. If you lived in a small town the department store had only the very popular items and you were expected to order from them.

By the 1980s the population had shifted to bigger cities, and UPS offered affordable shipping to your door, so those small town stores had little reason to exist and started closing.
I'm not seeing if they were able to definitively say whether the milk fats and proteins they found were cow's milk or goat's milk.

Given that they found these in Bavaria, it's probably moot, as that's squarely in the area you would expect to find lactose-tolerating people, but everything I've read says that goat's milk has lower lactose levels than cow's milk. And, weak evidence, I know, but just about every piece of fiction I've read that featured babies that needed to be kept alive in the absence of their mother or a wet nurse has gone to goat's milk first - off the top of my head, this features in Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth.
"Don't use your reinvented wheel in production. Unless you invent like, git."
According to the article that percentage dropped to 45% from 47% last year, but since ~100,000 more students took the exam the absolute number of college-ready graduates rose by ~3000.
Yeah, I'm quite impressed by how fast and smoothly this happened. Considering practically every country in the world is party to this, and it's going to impact nearly all global mail traffic, I expected more talk and slower implementation.
Isn't divestment just one side of the coin? The other side would be moving those investments in cleaner and more renewable sources of energy which should have a clear impact.
you want to be known as the one who invented the wheel, because it looks good as a resume item. That's why the wheel keeps getting reinvented again and again, and usually quite poorly.
> if Moore’s law continues for a few more decades

Moore's law has already been dead for years.
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Are you saying at any point in time someone in line can indicate to the bouncer they will buy bottle service and enter immediately? That sounds highly improbable...

Clubs in my city don't pay people to stand in line either, you either reserve your group in the guest book or didn't and are waiting longer for an "opening". Some clubs are at legal capacity and a line builds up but mostly they frisk everyone and ask for ID which takes a while and causes a line to form, which also benefits the club as a sort of popularity advertisement to others on the street.
I think it summarizes the problem of 4chan. It doesn't say anywhere that the media tool the bait and the ADL has an old blog post making it clear that, at the time, it was a hoax. Now the ADL has reclassified it as an actual symbol of hate by alt-right groups and white supremacists.

I think the article paints a picture of the rise of hate groups and the appropriation of a commomly used and innocuous hand gesture. Hell, as a diver, I now have to think about the fact that some Bad Actors have taken what I use to indicate that I'm fine and turned it into "I support genocide."
Is there anyone who thinks we shouldn't break up these large companies on anti-trust grounds?

Imo it's got to the point where if you have a bad idea your startup fails and if you have a good idea they will copy it and your startup fails. Even companies like spotify and slack which have "made it" are now threatened by Google Music + Apple Music and by Microsoft Teams.

Would be interested to hear other opinions.
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Sure but 3 figure and 5 figure runs certainly do not eliminate universities (see my above comment). Not to mention as I have said, most good universities will have clusters capable of training these that they maintain on premise drastically reducing that cost (and in a worst case just take longer to train).
The wheel is, in terms of elegance and function, a perfect machine - it can't be simplified, nor can it be improved upon. The point of the idiom being that any attempt to do so will either lead back to the wheel, or an inferior, unnecessarily complex alternative.

The problem with applying this to programming is the implication that there are languages, frameworks, patterns, and idioms which are equivalent to the wheel, in that there always exists one objectively correct, perfect solution which can't be improved upon. I don't believe programming has the equivalent of a wheel, yet.

What people tend to mean when they say "don't reinvent the wheel" in the context of programming is either "don't waste time writing code that already exists and is adequate" or "don't use $X because I like $Y."
> The thing that I just cannot stop wondering is, why, knowing the perks of industry, advisers still treated us like this.

I think you had a bad advisor(s)! They’re not all like that. Maybe the group you were in was under a lot of funding pressure or something, that can cause bad behavior.
This is a link to Bill Gates' recent comments.

However, with pension funds this is slightly different. Funds have a huge voice and customers switching investments can influence how they use their votes. It's very easy to do, so why not do this in addition to all the other things?

It's also less about removing funds from fossil fuels and more about putting your retirement savings to better work. If you move your fund to a "future world" style one then this provides capital to clean energy projects etc. The ethical funds I looked at even performed better historically than the standard ones, so it's win-win.
You really wouldn't be limited, it would be no different than time.microsoft.com being the default on Windows or rhel.pool.ntp.org being the default on RHEL.

The local resolver that proxies DoH or DoT is nice (I'm using it right now too!) but it doesn't solve the problem of applications wanting to be sure they're getting an encrypted connection.
Well, if you're willing to spend $5-10 to find out for yourself, you can try this experiment:

1) Buy a box of Twinings* tea bags from your neighborhood grocery store (https://www.amazon.com/Twinings-Earl-Grey-Tea-Bags/dp/B000R9...).

2) Buy the same flavor of Twinings tea from your neighborhood grocery store in loose-leaf form (https://www.amazon.com/Twinings-London-Earl-Loose-Ounces/dp/...).

3) Boil a kettle of water and prepare a mug of each. Note the varying instructions: the teabag is only recommended to steep for about two minutes, because the tea dust is comprised of smaller particles and will overextract if left alone too long, while the loose leaf tea calls for about 4 minutes of steeping.

4) Taste and decide for yourself whether you feel there is a meaningful difference between the two. If not, then great! You can continue to buy the more convenient option without feeling like you're being deprived somehow.

* I'm sure there are other brands, but Twinings was the only one off the top of my head that sells both teabags and loose-leaf of the same flavor and can be found in most grocery stores.
I used the term grad stipend loosely, I was on various scholarships that meant I was not technically an employee or dependent on funding from my adviser. Did not make a difference at all.

Where you are right is that I did allow myself to be treated like that. I could have quite any time, of course.
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AB5 is going to impact bug bounty companies. By how much is unknown
First example I've checked is wrong [1]. Shuffle a list, with a static Random object initialization. Using a static random object is not thread-safe in .NET.

"One common solution is to use a static field to store a single instance of Random and reuse it. That’s okay in Java (where Random is thread-safe) but it’s not so good in .NET – if you use the same instance repeatedly from .NET, you can corrupt the internal data structures." [2]

Very often the very same resources which claim to be the source of truth provide bad code examples.

[1] https://www.programming-idioms.org/cheatsheet/Csharp

[2] https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2009/11/04/revisiting-randomnes...
Oh, the career is in academia and research.
But you don't even have to answer those
I'm not saying he didn't use copper pipe for the first well, but one could imagine he used cast iron pipe in the first well. If he did, my layman understanding is that copper pipe must be much more less likely to break, than cast iron pipe. (Cast iron is pretty brittle.)
I don't know, feels like an airline trying to differentiate itself. It feels just like any other random university, maybe worse because the name sounds like a bootcamp. and it kinda feels like it is anyway. I would take the founder's former university (MIT) any day over "Make School" lol.
While this is almost lost knowledge these days, humans and other animals have always paid attention to each other to find out what is going in on around them.

The nature (or absence of) bird or animal calls or activity can tell you that there is a large predator in the area.¹

Some animal calls are even specific to the type of threat as well.

It has even been proposed by some linguists that prairie dog calls satisfy enough of the requirements to be considered language.²

1: https://birdlanguage.com/products/what-the-robin-knows/

2: https://medium.com/health-and-biological-research-news/prair...
Thank you, the corresponding Washington Post article (which I have access to) does not seem to have that information.
> I think we had a class period where they talked about the sorts of questions that appear on the exam, told us about when/where it'd be offered, etc., along with ads for SAT-prep services, but I think a lot of folks ended up deciding it would be best to get a good-night's sleep before walking in on it.

That's actually non-trivial amount of prep, but I personally don't know anybody that took the SAT "cold". Everyone prepped quite a bit - I prepped for months and got mediocre scores consistently ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The cost of action is 4 billion current human lives.
eh...the original Christians were jews. Yet they still abrogated these laws.
Potentially a seller who a) doesn't really care about customers outside the US or b) is used to shipping $1000+ complete products and doesn't do enough volume of small spare parts to make it worth investing in a separate process for those orders.
A really good read. Fascinating stuff.

A key bit was:

"Almost no one changes their mind because of one day' argument. Instead, we slowly start to see ideas we once would have rejected out of hand as "reasonable" only after we have been exposed to other people whom we respect or identify with who believe them."

This is something that is important with today's political climate in the west (UK and USA) as the right have as their leader someone who almost everyone on all sides agree doesn't command respect or behave as a statesman should. (and the left have lost touch with the lower classes, choosing instead to identify with the middle classes and their identities.)
Why does negative feedback come with an obligation to slave away for a person that doesn't even care about what you are doing?
This is a stereotype of HR that IMHO is not representative of the majority of people in the profession.
Our son (10 yo) had a delinquent medical bill for reasons we don't understand. The creditor can't tell us who sent the bill because we aren't the named party and I'll be damned if I put him on the phone with them, because he is a minor. So, we're at an impasse and no one can tell us anything.

Someone managed to get his name and address and did not realize he was a minor. Brilliant system you have!
> 1. Lying has always been considered a valid political tool. It isn't really clear how a government can operate without lying.
Could you expand on this? Why could the government not operate without lying, except for extreme situations like war?
How? Then someone else would receive my USD.
99% in revenue, so probably more than that in volume.
I used to really care about my own code quality in OSS but these days I just think it's a miracle if I manage to write any code (for the same reasons described in that video: full time job + family and other social obligations, eg I also do volunteer work most weekends).

The way I see it, writing working code is more important than writing "good" code most of the time. That's not to say I don't try and follow some degree of standards. My code usually contains a crap load of tests, definitely tries to follow the language idioms, etc. But I just don't try and get clever where I don't need to. Sometimes this means code isn't well optimised - however I can pick that up in a subsequent bug fix if that particular feature proves useful / popular.

Thus I have had one or two people comment before saying "it's not very well coded" and I usually just reply "it's very much living project where some code is working POC and other code has been rewritten and improved (sometimes many times over). However if you have any specific concerns or tips, I'd welcome them. Or better yet, chuck me a PR"
+1 : my grad school experience was not like this. I'm sorry you went through this. For me grad school was the best time ever. Pursuing science while being protected and guided by a world expert, and doing so without grown-up responsibilities like getting grants, doing admin, etc. It was so. much. fun.
The problem with this is that best can change over time as languages evolve. For instance, formatting a date in Java:

https://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/99/format-date-yyyy...

The first listing was using a `SimpleDateFormat`, which for a long time really was the best way to do this. But now I would never recommend that over `String.format`, especially with the potential threading problems in the former. But the latter was not available until Java 1.5.
Oh, of course. But statistical illiteracy hurts us badly here. Even just distinguishing between median and mean is beyond the abilities of most popular reporting.

As it is, this article is almost worthless. The raw data would be interesting to go through.
The majority of people in the profession don't change the incentives. They work for the company, push comes to shove that is their job.

They might help me figure out some insurance thing here or there and really care, but when it comes to something important they are there for the company, not me.
If there was regulatory capture it surely couldn't have been provided by them given they didn't exist yet. They were doing exactly what the tax system was designed to do - promote investment no trickery involved.

One can legitimately argue that the system sucked or could have been done better but it is not exploitation in the sense of a glitch any more than handling moving by selling your furniture, mailing your small items, and then buying new stuff insread of renting a van since depreciation losses would be less than moving expenses.

Catalog precedent was what they used for taxes and even a large company using it to sell everything enmasse wasn't new either - Sears Catalog.
The number of men in the US aged 18-30 reporting no sex in the previous year has almost tripled since 2010 [1]. It seems there are economic or cultural factors at play besides not well-crafting their messages or showering enough.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...
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Sorry, I don't buy it. Maybe if you're in your 20s this is true, but for people in their 40s, there's tons of women on the dating sites all looking for husbands, and as a man I've had plenty of success finding women to date (not so much in finding someone I have any interest in marrying though; there aren't that many attractive women left in the US at this age (because Americans are fat), and the ones who are left have severe problems).

I really think that most people who are critical of online dating are only looking at one demographic, being people who are 25 or under.
I don't really see opposition to progress as great. But I mean that in general sense, there are some limits, and I know nothing about this specific case.
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Some bits of this are interesting. The numbers on the accelerated program seem unrealistically ambitious though. In the Q&A, they say they teach a fully accredited 124-credit-hour degree in 2-2.5 yrs. That seems pretty difficult, at least under the official accreditation standards!

A standardized definition most accreditation agencies have settled on for a "credit-hour" is approximately 45 hours of work total (so e.g. a 3-credit course requires 135 hours over the semester). Originally that came from an assumption that an N-credit class met for N hours a week, plus 2N hours of homework per week, for a 14-week semester plus a 15th exam or final-project week. But any split is ok under current standards as long as it adds up to about the same (different semester lengths, no-lecture classes purely based on videos, fully in-person lab-style classes, etc.). Either way though, a 124-credit-hour degree would end up at around 5580 hours of work. To do it in 2 calendar years, you'd need to average 54 hours/wk, with no vacations. Not physically impossible, but...
>Since the 1970s, the continent has lost 3 billion birds, nearly 30% of the total, and even common birds such as sparrows and blackbirds are in decline, U.S. and Canadian researchers report this week online in Science

So, at 1970s we had 9 billion birds, and we know have 6 billion birds?

I've seen articles that say: "Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year, says a new study that escalates a decades-old debate over the feline threat to native animals".

Compared to that, a drop of 3 billion birds "since the 70s" seem a tiny number, no?
May I ask at what stage of your career you are? I am a (confused) grad student working on “ML for physical sciences” and would really appreciate some advice on career directions.
funny how everything you do in your life time can be forgotten and and you are labeled a crooked for the smallest amount of corruption

"may the one who never sinned throw a rock at me"
What's interesting about this school: Entire curriculum is open not hidden, ability to get a real regionally accredited degree in just 2 years, no up front tuition

What's bad about this school: Almost entirely web frameworks, the algorithms slides are way too brief, heavily relies on Hackerank type resources, not to mention possible mistakes in the slides, like describing 'THE upper bound' when you can find another upper bound. No math so gradschool is going to be difficult. Entirely imperative/OOP. Edit: You will owe them $100k https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18548001 and it's not clear on their site if there's a maximum level of gross income deduction

Still can't beat that 2 years to official Bachelor's piece of paper for no up front costs
> Funds have a huge voice

If they divest, they have no voice at all.
Let users contribute idioms, or request idioms for their language and use case... and we've reinvented the StackOverflow wheel
"reasonable" -> "unreasonable"
> No, what I really feel is that at work I am not actually treated like a servant any more

Yessssss this. Even as a more permanent lab member (staff) I don't have clear defined role outside of, do what no one else wants to. It's not just the students!
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hire a lawyer and write a letter. You're not at an impasse. You can have this cleared, if they don't have evidence and you write a letter, they have to shut it down.
That's because quality people have all moved on to something else. Tinder is mainly for hookups now: people who are traveling and want something casual, people who are married and want a 3some, people who are cheating, etc.

Everyone else has moved on to a better dating site, like Bumble, CMB, OKC, etc.
Thanks for this. Great advice.
Banks signing letters doesn't really do much - they're still responsible for making money, and they'll keep working in hydrocarbons. This title is hyperbolic.

Further, banks typically "invest" on behalf of customers, not by themselves (are loans investments?). Pretty sure if ARAMCO is going IPO they want a piece of the business. What about M&A advisory work for hydrocarbon companies? Brokering corporate bonds?

It's great that folks are signing letters that they understand the problem, but I don't think one can read any significance into them until behavior actually changes. What downside is there to signing the letter?

EDIT: That said, I clicked. Not sure I'll ever go to this domain again though.
You are a bit harsh on a country that generates 98% of its electricity through renewable energy.
That's rare. Usually it's actually just that the charity is selling "ad space" and the venue keeps the donations in exchange for paying a fee to the charity. It's a weird system.
If you're of the baby boomer age group and older, it's likely you'll be gone before the worst effects of climate change are in effect, and they know that.

For them, destroying the environment is not destroying yourself. It's prioritizing short term gain at the expense of their children and grandchildren.

It's no coincidence that the majority of politicians and corporate leadership is in this age group, hence the lack of urgency in mitigating climate change.
Watching Accepted all those years ago, would anyone have guessed that within the next decade Jonah Hill would be twice Academy nominated for dramatic work? That's motivational, anything is possible.
It seems it's another "bootcamp" like initiative trying to make a quick buck by treating computer science education as a trade. Naturally, people who end up going to these programs end up working on web stuff or mobile apps. Maybe there's demand for this kind of work, but what people may not realize is that it's also diluting the value of people with a proper engineering education.
> but for people in their 40s, there's tons of women on the dating sites all looking for husbands

Yes. There's tons of them because they can't get a husband and the supply/demand curve inverts across the genders. The time to secure a husband was back in their 20s when they were on the favourable side of the curve. Those women are pursuing partners that pursue much younger women.

To cut it short, female overall partner disirability peaks in their 20-30s and then falls off. Male continues rising until their 80s.

Dating apps are amplifying this effect but are also amplifying its downside, across both genders. Is this a net win or lose for society? Idk, you decide.

[1] https://ifstudies.org/blog/who-cheats-more-the-demographics-...
Saudi Arabia would be a better example. Norway isn't all about oil anymore.