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They don't necessarily have to detour to your front door, you can often walk to a pickup point that is a compromise: balancing amount of detouring, amount of walking, amount of waiting, amount of adapting your schedule to the schedule of the transportation. The more flexible you are on any of those things, the more you can save yourself a few cents.

The worst case is, you need the car as soon as possible, you want it to come to your door, you don't want to be slowed down at all by stops along the way. Maybe you have other requirements, like you need it to have room for cargo, you need it to have a seat for your kid, you need to take your Golden Retriever along, or whatever. In those cases, it'll cost you a bit more, but it's still the same system so it's not a big deal.

On the other hand, maybe you are good with scheduling your trip in advance, you don't mind it making lots of stops because you'll just be working on your laptop anyway, and if the weather is nice you are good with a bit of a walk on either end. The more people who are this flexible, the better the system works, so they are happy to give you a discount.

What I'm talking about is about is somewhere between a city bus, and an Uber/cab. Lots of efficiencies can be gained by balancing all these different things, and the more people using it, the easier it gets to do this sort of thing.

I can't see why people wouldn't want it to work like that.
I feel like this is some sort of maxim/law: Its inevitable that any product which currently does not include ads will eventually include ads.
If you are worried about your secrets being revealed to a nation state, then chances are you shouldn’t be putting any of them over the public internet - VPN or not.
I haven't been following closely, but I assume this must be the launch of Haven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven_(healthcare)

The reason is to save money by bringing a service in house, just like big companies do with all kinds of other services and products. (For example, if you're a 25-person company, you let a law firm handle your legal work. If you're a 25,000-person company, you have a staff of lawyers who work directly for you.) Insurance companies make a profit, so by doing it yourself, you can keep that money instead of giving it to them.

I don't see a reason to believe it should necessarily mean their employees miss out on anything. In theory they're at an advantage by cutting out the middleman. So in theory they could cut costs and increase benefits even if they can't improve and operate it more efficiently than current insurance companies.
It is great that you've found a way to feel superior to others with your purpose narrative.
It's your total winnings divided by the amount of the big-blind (to normalize the stakes) divided by 100. So Postle averages a net positive of almost 10x the big blind per hand which is absurd.

The VPIP (Y axis) is on what percentages of hands he voluntarily put money in the pot (i.e. called without a blind or raised with a blind). He is on the high-end for VPIP which means he plays looser, and has higher winnings per hand. This is already looking bad, but playing so loosely should at least mean he has some big losses to go with some big gains, but looking at individual results he really doesn't.
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No, I didn't say that. I meant there was a lot of work pushed on the people by a ruthless government.
Personally, I want a traditional library with physical books, as well as ample digital access. I did research in college involving attempting to find and summarize every mention of a particular topic by a Congressperson during the 1970s. This meant I grabbed the (massive) books of Congressional minutes, checked the indexes, and paged through them for weeks. I could have done this in days with a digital archive.

At the same time, there was a lot that I preferred to read a physical copy of, and I saved a ton of money by only buying books that weren't on reserve at the library, meaning you could check them out, but only per visit. I also definitely would prefer they remain as a spacious, quiet spaces for study.
> The American Conservative

Oh the irony.
Cerner does this in office in Kansas City. I thought it was pretty cool. Keeps their costs (presumably) lower.
Art is fine, and often wonderful. The BS claims are not. (Which is also what the gentleman in the 'story' was calling out.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064517
It's time for a LegalZoom-like service for healthcare. 99% of visits to a physician can be addressed through textbook pills & treatment paths.

My best friend is a nurse practitioner. Anytime I get real sick, I text her a list of my symptoms and before the conversation is over the local pharmacy is processing my prescriptions for me.

If this doesn't highlight how fundamentally messed up the healthcare and industry is, I don't know what will. Those on the other side say "well, what if you had cancer..." Well, fine, let's keep the escalation options available (doctors/specialists/hospitals) and gut everything else.
You're acting like you need to watch everything on each service
The on-boarding/off-boarding efficiency of trams would be very hard to replicate in a bus design.

Low floor and equivalent disabled access would be hard too.

The efficiency of metal on metal movement is harder to match with buses.

Big heavy vehicles on bitumen and rubber particulate have environmental costs and maintenance costs (I haven't looked at this one, but people frequently ignore that tyres themselves being used create air particulate pollution).

You can have the equivalent shared pedestrian zone with a tram: search Bourke st mall Melbourne or watch how pedestrians jaywalk with abandonment down Brunswick st Fitzroy that you can't get with heavy rail because of the start/stopping times, and that you don't get with buses because pedestrians don't have the psychological certainty of their travel direction and momentum.

And lastly there is a real psychological town planning point with fixed rail that sees density and value build up around better around permanent paths and installments. It's well and good to dismiss that as someone could do it differently if they wanted to, but its arguing using "shoulds and coulds" against empirical reality.
So why would anyone play with this guy at this point even if the casino won't ban him for lack of definitive evidence?
I would guess there's a patent involved preventing another company from using it. I would definitely have bought an MS 3000/Sculpt with mechanical switches before I built my own ergodox. My problem was that I wore out my sculpt in like 14 months. Half of the space bar stopped working. I'm actually a little surprised Microsoft hasn't released one with mechanical switches.
I'd like to second Letterkenny. I grew up in a SW Ontario town about that size. It's so true to form it's uncanny.
I read it twice and there was only speculation on various ways that he might have cheated; no definitive answer to how he did.
LADOT is rolling out electric buses already to test them on certain routes at least. Personally I think light rail is a stop gap measure. Light rail in LA is slow and crowded and you can only make stations so long which limits how many cars you can have on a train. Running it at grade doesn't help either and limits the minimum headway that the system can achieve.

Heavy rail is a better option. It's faster and transports more people at once than any BRT or LRT, and is costlier of course. But as they say, the fool pays twice.
Spot the rich kid who has no clue of the value of money. Only rich idiots buy the books, or at least anything more than the core book.

Everyone else plans ahead and gets the ones in the library or are forced to rely on the ones in the short-term library section, which you probably didn't even know existed.
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I'm sure there is a correlation, but I can't see how income could possibly be linked causally to brain function directly.

Eaten nothing but packets of ramen for months on end probably takes more of a toll on the brain than a light wallet.
Funding provided to hospitals to extend the lives of smokers with lung cancer, either implicitly or explicitly, who end up smoking more, would be subsidizing tobacco companies.

I'm fairly sure funding women's shelters is the opposite since victims of domestic violence can go to shelters to avoid abuse. But if it turns out there's a direct link between something like alcohol consumption and domestic abuse, you could posit that subsidizing alcohol in some way also subsidizes domestic violence.
That's pure dystopia.
I do get a lot of job offers, especially from European companies, just because the word "Vue" appears a lot in my LinkedIn resume. Some friends are getting good offers too.

I guess it's more popular in Europe and China than in the US.

I've also seen a lot of new startups that use Laravel or .NET using it too.
What causes low IQ though? Just going to take a guess here and say that < 5% of people actually have "genetic stupidity". Most "low IQ" people are low IQ because they went through traumatizing hardships early in life.

>People don't want to face cold hard truths.

Yeah, no shit. People are too busy trying to survive instead of trying to figure out life's "truths".
If this is the much hyped Amazon foray into the healthcare, I think it is fair to be disappointed. Digital concierge care isn't exactly new (although the onsite visits are intriguing.

If you are like me, you are sitting around and rooting for someone just like Amazon to come in and shake up the medical industry like they did retail and publishing. But I think too many bad practices are codified into law (understandably), and it's not a problem that enough capital is going to solve.

To be fair to digital concierge care though, I think they are good but underutilized services. A lot of time consuming things can just as easily be done virtually (getting a sick note, renewing a prescription, checking out a rash). In my experience, traditional providers do a bad job of making the services easy to use or attractive.
I doubt he has an accomplice. I think he's intimately familiar with the RFID system, including having had direct access to the actual one being used on Stones Live (per his connection to them that was observed on Linkedin), and enabled a multiplexing debug feature to send his phone a stream of every card being read.
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VC can extract value by selling it on at an inflated valuation.

That's what SoftBank tried to do with WeWork. The company is worth 10 billion (or less) and they tried to sell it to the public markets at 40 billion. Had the public markets not noticed the weird shit going on inside the company and actually bought it at 40+ billion then SoftBank would've made a lot of money. The stock would then most likely decrease over the following years costing those that bought it in the IPO money.

This is why it's so important that public markets are strictly regulated and the SEC forces companies to publish all kinds of things before IPO.
Courses at university in the UK (or at least mine, and at least when I did it) don't really have textbooks. You are advised to read three or four books during the course, but there isn't one single book that you absolutely must have. Lectures had notes, and referred to those three or four books and you could find relevant material in each, in basically any edition.

I think I bought maybe four text books during a four year degree, and those were the ones I really liked and wanted to keep after I graduated. The rest were just checked out of the library.

How come this isn't possible in the US? Why do you need that one particular textbook and a specific edition and nothing else is suitable? There's no undergraduate subject I'm aware of so specific that there is only one book in existence on the topic - many are suitable. What's the blocker?
LensCrafters will fit/adjust any/all glasses for free without any questions. Bonus: there is usually one in most malls.

I've brought probably 10 frames there multiple times over the last couple decades, only one of which I actually bought there.
The Neo-Darwinians don't have an origin of life model. Neo-Darwinism was a synthesis of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with genetics. It was about fleshing out an actual mechanism behind heritability and variation (two of the three necessary ingredients for evolution by natural selection; the other being selection). It was not about explaining how life started.

The origin of life is very much a speculative area of science. I thought Nick Lane's The Vital Question was an interesting take on how life could have gotten started. I'm not qualified to comment on the validity of the chemistry behind it, though.
">Nothing of value is lost if you can get the same job done with trains underground and buses above."

I would argue that seeing day light is a thing of value. Also the ability to look out a window and see life is also much more interesting than staring out into dark lifeless subway tunnels. Berlin and Amssterdam both have trams and neither seems to have impinged on space for bicycles.
To get from the basic building blocks to a fully functioning working cell, you need steps A, B, C, D, ...

This article shows that C could have spontaneously happened. It's not at all meaningless. Is it the whole story? Of course not. But it's an interesting part of the chain. Science is slow. Don't throw out the transistor because it's not an iphone.
I fired up the last live stream and it seems they put in a "electronic devices need to be away from the table" rule. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/489058455?t=13m51s

But it doesn't seem to be a rule they enforce all the time (as one player said "that would be a good rule to have all the time") but the other players said they liked the rule simply cause people actually pay attention to the game instead of their phones now.

If it is how others have suggested in this thread, he has a tap into the system reading the cards and they if they only have that card reading system enabled during the live streamed games (Postle only seems to play during the live games and would be constantly looking at his phone) then that would be "enough".

If he is using a large reader in a bag or something then surely something powerful enough to read his opponents cards would also be picking up the cards in the dealers hands (the rest of the deck) esp if his opponent is on the other side of the table with the dealer in-between them.

That's just my speculation on the matter.

EDIT: Though he does seem to have his phone in his breast pocket. And if he really does have a tap into the system it wouldn't take much to create some easy to conceal device to feed him data via another mean other than a phone screen.

Some of the other games seem to happily have some of the players wearing headphones and the like so unless there was an outright ban on electronics near the table their would still be "issues".

If he does indeed have an "in" to the system then even ripping out the RFID system and replacing it with cameras (like in other televised poker games could be a data leak unless they ripped out the WHOLE thing and started a fresh with another company supplying the tech.
Try passing along a vinyl or CD or VHS or DVD collection when you die. See how fast it ends up at a flea market, or on the curb waiting for the trash truck. ALL digital goods are ephemeral one way or the other, unless you're an actual archivist. That's why archivists are important as their own discipline.
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Yeah, I was a history major, I would cite 30 plus sources per paper, many of which had never been checked out of the library ever before and weren't available digitally :0
Did it for myself. Ordered online. Best glasses yet (I think mainly thanks to a my very patient optometrist.)

I measured by taking a picture of my face with a credit card for reference and measuring the pixels with the measuring tool in GIMP. (These were the actual instructions on the website I ordered my glasses from.)

Also worth mentioning I paid $40 ordering them online, in the article it says he paid $280!
I guess there is something to be said about applications purely focused on user needs and not engineering. MS Excel and MS Access applications vs applications developed by engineers using the latest framework. On a personal level I was happy Drupal end user because whilst I am a developer I am not a web developer. Drupal 7 was useful to me it allowed me to create useful web applications similar to using MS Access on the desktop. I cannot even get the well engineered Drupal 8 running because I honestly don't have the time to first learn things like Composer.
There's cydia impactor which is much more straightforward. It only needs your apple id and an IPA.
They're good until you get automatically banned for some reason and there is zero people you can contact to fix it.
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See my response above. Neo-Darwinianism has nothing to do with explaining the origin of life. It was strictly concerned with explaining the mechanism (genetics) underpinning Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. And the fact that the OP has engaged in name calling that isn't even correct kind of implies that their objection is ideological rather than merely logical.
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I found that the best way to get a nice, precise measurement was to take two pieces of sticky note and punch a hole in them with a pin. Put them on an existing pair of glasses and line up a distant (unless you're getting reading glasses) sharp corner with the pinhole over one eye. Switch to the other eye and see if the pinhole is lined up—if not, adjust the pinhole positioning and try again. Once the pinholes are aligned, you can measure the distance between them.

Much easier than trying to get someone to measure it accurately with a ruler in front of your face, or trying to draw dots with a washable pen in front of your eyes on old glasses, or any of the other methods I tried. The measurement I took appears to be accurate (the glasses I ordered from Zenni using it are comfortable to wear), and it was easy to get a precise and repeatable measurement to within about half a millimeter.
It doesn’t seem crazy that these master would allow people to believe their teachings. That would just make them convincing woo woo con men. To actually stand in the ring with someone and fight bare knuckled, when your opponent is younger and has 50lbs on you is insane though.

Are they really that delusional about their training? If so that actually is dangerous, if you are 120lb woman you shouldnt behave like you can easily fend off large men, no matter how good at tai chi or pressure points you are.
The article doesn't explain it at all. There's a lot of hand analysis proving that it is a statistical impossibility that he's not cheating, and a lot of speculation on possible methods, but nothing that explains how he actually did it.

The most likely method seems to be a RFID reader either in his keys or hat transmitting data to his phone, but from what I can tell nobody has nailed down his technique exactly.
I'm not defending SSL-based VPN servers. They exist because people didn't understand how IPSec IKE worked or want to put in the effort to make it work better, and as is typical in the industry worse-is-better won the day.

But the value those SSL-based and similar bespoke VPN servers brought was automated key management, end-user based authentication, route setup, etc. They've done so horribly in terms of correctness and security, but nonetheless in a way that companies value.

Yes, Wireguard avoids all the pitfalls of the transport security. But so do the crappy SSL-based solutions, because they also have the benefit of hindsight.

What's the practical value of Wireguard over IPSec? AFAICT, it has marginally better NAT traversal; IPSec requires NAT-T (a UDP wrapper) which is marginally more complex. But what's the biggest impediment to IPSec uptake? It's IKE, which is a purely userland service. Most IKE implementations suck. Whatever solutions will be built around Wireguard, they'll ultimately look almost exactly like IKE in terms of their relationship to the in-kernel component--a userland daemon for PKI and/or general user authentication management which does some setup like installing the secret transport key and policy of the otherwise simple in-kernel components. But if those better IKE solutions don't exist (outside of OpenBSD), why would Wireguard magically make them appear?

At best what we'll get (what we are getting, as manifest in every VPN service and open source project announcement) with Wireguard is a recapitulation of the mess we have with SSL VPN products. All the same security issues revolving around horrible key management and poorly written software, all the same incompatibilities and vendor lock in stemming from the diverse "solutions". Except we'll have a beautiful transport layer protocol to soothe ourselves with.

I don't mean to criticize Wireguard. From a low-level engineering perspective it's beyond reproach. My concern is with how it's being received and the fantasies people have about how it will change things. And IMO (which I admit is my opinion--not a hill I'd choose to die on, but something I'd still wager on and orient my plans around) is that long-term security would be better spent by fixing (mostly deprecating old modes) and reinforcing IPSec and IKE, which is already very mature. macOS, iPhone, and Windows have mature IKEv2 support. Linux, and Android in particular, does not have mature IKEv2 support, at least not out-of-the-box. Implementations like FreeS/WAN are too complex and have too many pitfalls, which is why startups either avoid it or flounder in their attempts to build on it. If I could order open source engineers around, I'd order them to improve IKEv2 support. Why? Because IKEv2 addresses in a reasonable fashion 80% of the things that compromise the value-add of commercial VPN products. That last 20% still leaves maneuvering room for novel key and user management solutions, but without as great a risk of really f'ing things up.
Isn't that a causal chain...?
No, I'm referring to pumped water storage like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Swamp_Hydroelectric_Power...

It was built to pair with nuclear power stations on the Connecticut river, specifically, to pump water at night during low demand, and then generate during high demand.
I was thinking the same, as an extra ingredient in the recipe. Nutrition and good health habits (avoid smoking, avoid excessive drinking of alcohol or sodas, sleep the necessary for your well-being, practice some sport, etc) are essentials you can't ignore.
When the content and the advertisement have fully meshed, only then does one reach true nirvana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9hepxidZyo
Compared to their ad business the cloud is lower revenue. Selling people is the real money maker.
Counterpoint: Visual Studio Code is great software from Microsoft that was built on Electron. However, it's the ONLY app I've ever seen built on Electron that isn't a slow and voracious consumer of all resources on a system.
> just because it ain't violating the HN community guidelines doesn't mean it ain't propaganda

That's certainly true. But what objective criteria are there for doing something about it?
>How are they mostly nonsense?

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.". In TMAs you pretty much never ever get punched in the face, all the way to a black belt and smug feeling of superiority. At the Kickboxing gym I attended it was pretty regular to get a new face with high tma rank/belt stop his first sparring after discovering is shock and horror that people actually will hit you and it hurts.